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We know it can feel frustrating and overwhelming to know where to start. You are not alone!

We will provide practical guidance and actionable steps for attendees to follow in their own organizations from both the employer and employee perspective.

Speaker:

Melissa Dern and Julie Johnson

Melissa is the Manager, HR Service Solutions with Clark Schaefer Strategic HR overseeing our Virtual HR Solutions and Contract HR / Interim HR Services. She loves the process of understanding people’s drive and desire for bettering themselves. Melissa is passionate about helping others to find HR solutions enabling them to build strong teams and their HR knowledge.

Melissa is a dynamic HR Generalist with over 20 years of experience. She brings a wealth of expertise with a diverse background in recruiting, staffing operations, management, training and sales. Melissa’s strengths are building strong customer relationships, recruiting, talent management, and employee relations. She always makes a difference in every aspect of her business and personal life with her positivity, superb communication, and strong leadership skills.

Julie is a Senior HR Business Strategist with Clark Schaefer Strategic HR. She helps clients to tackle projects of all sizes and achieve their goals by cultivating relationships, listening, and designing HR solutions that align directly with their needs. As a future-focused, big-picture thinker who is also adept at managing the details, Julie specializes in connecting clients to the right HR-centered services, tools, and technologies to help develop, strengthen, and/or grow the HR function in their organizations.

Julie has 20 years of experience working as an internal HR Leader as well as an external HR consultant helping clients to solve their organizational challenges. She has led cross-functional people initiatives with Fortune 500 organizations, non-profits, small to mid-size organizations, and start-ups representing Higher Education, Contact Centers, Retail, Hospitality, Healthcare, Financial Services, and Manufacturing industries.