Karen Casey

Karen Casey

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Chief People Officer
United States

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  • SynerG BioPharma Group
    Chief People Officer
    SynerG BioPharma Group
    Dec 2022 - Current (3 years 10 months)
  • Forbes Human Resources Council
    Official Contributor
    Forbes Human Resources Council
    Nov 2020 - Current (5 years 11 months)
  • Canidae Pet Food
    Chief People Officer
    Canidae Pet Food
    Mar 2020 - Nov 2022 (2 years 9 months)
    Led the transformation of people and culture organization across Canidae, a PE portfolio company, to deliver on company growth targets, cost savings, and organizational deliverables. Established HR strategic direction with mindset of incremental progress across people operations, talent management, DEI, and culture to transform an administrative function with limited resources, systems, processes, and technology to a best in class, strategic, budget friendly, and award-winning function, with focus on business priorities. Three main areas of transformation to scale and support a decentralized workforce across manufacturing, field sales, and a post-COVID hybrid headquarters workforce including:

    1.) People Operations (Policy/Proces
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    Vice President - HR Practice Leader
    GattiHR
    Jan 2020 - Mar 2020 (3 months)
    Member of the GattiHR leadership team that provided executive search and HR consulting services to domestic and international clients.
  • Primark
    Head of US Talent Acquisition and Strategy (Consultant)
    Primark
    Nov 2014 - Aug 2019 (4 years 10 months)
    Led Europe’s largest retailer during their United States entry including the delivery of an executive leadership team headquartered in Boston, MA, and the establishment of a US talent acquisition strategy, RPO selection, and technology stack for first nine retail locations from MA to Florida. Throughout assignment acted as interim Head of US Talent Acquisition during department reorganizations.
  • Northeastern University
    Faculty Member
    Northeastern University
    Aug 2013 - Jan 2018 (4 years 6 months)
    Adjunct faculty providing leadership, content development and classroom facilitation in the field of Career Development and Growth Mindset to undergraduate students. Coursework included self-awareness assessments, resume writing, interviewing skills, website development and social media review.
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    Principal/Owner - Human Resources Consulting
    Talent Management Inc
    May 2007 - Jan 2020 (12 years 9 months)
    Owned and operated HR consulting practice for twelve years. Client work spanned multiple industries, size, and organizational complexities to include companies such as BJ's Wholesale Inc, Primark Ltd., Procter and Gamble, Trusteer, IBM, IHRDC, Harvard University and Northeastern University. Managed career and leadership coaching practice and client base.
  • Procter Gamble
    Director, Human Resources Business Partner (Information Technology)
    Procter Gamble
    Jan 2005 - Jul 2006 (1 year 7 months)
    Provided global human resources leadership for Gillette’s Information Technology (IT) organization spanning multiple geographies including the United States, Germany, and Western Europe; Oversaw the “Fielding the Best Team” process to include the facilitation of talent identification, employee selection, and reduction-in-force process for 900 global IT employees.
  • Procter Gamble
    Director, Global Organizational Learning and Development, Career Development and EVP
    Procter Gamble
    Jan 2004 - Jan 2005 (1 year 1 month)
    Led global project team in the development of Gillette’s Employee Value Proposition to demonstrate the significance culture impacts recruitment and retention strategies, achieved through partnership and validation with C-Suite and high potential employees.
  • Procter Gamble
    Director, Global Talent Acquisition
    Procter Gamble
    Oct 2000 - Jan 2004 (3 years 4 months)
    Responsible for the establishment of the Company-wide staffing strategy and centralization of Talent Acquisition services (COE and SSC) across North America, establishing the global framework, inclusive of 20 locations including manufacturing facilities, commercial offices, and corporate headquarters, reducing FTE over a two-year period, decreased agency spend in first year yielding significant cost savings a total budget reduction by 25%.

    Led talent acquisition team responsible for Gillette’s diversity recruitment efforts including the development of the strategic partnership with North Carolina A&T, Gillette’s first HBCU partnership, including recruitment, professional development, academic reciprocity, research opportunities,
  • The Gillette Company
    Manager, Compensation and Benefits - South Boston Manufacturing Facility
    The Gillette Company
    Jul 1999 - Oct 2000 (1 year 4 months)
  • The Gillette Company
    Manager, Human Resources - Gillette North Atlantic Group
    The Gillette Company
    Jan 1998 - Jul 1999 (1 year 7 months)
  • The Gillette Company
    HR Business Partner (Generalist) - South Boston Manufacturing Facility
    The Gillette Company
    Aug 1996 - Dec 1997 (1 year 5 months)
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  • Boston College Carroll School Of Management
    MBA, Business and Organizational Development
    Boston College Carroll School Of Management
  • SUNY Geneseo
    BA, Psychology
    SUNY Geneseo
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      HR News Profiled Talent Acquisition Organization
      HR News Society for Human Resource Management
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      Best in Employee Communications
      Ragan PR and Communications
      Award finalist for employee communications associated with the total employee experience including Employee Recognition, Employee Well-Being and Electronic Publications.
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      Top Places to Work
      Ragan PR and Communications
      Recognized as a Top Places to Work and an organization that kept their employees engaged and inspired, championed a more diverse and equitable workforce, and delivered powerful stories.
    • Ragan Communications
      Best Employee Well Being Program
      Ragan Communications
      Recognized for Best Employee Well Being Program in support of Mental Health Awareness Month 2022

      Canidae earns a win in the Employee Experience – Employee Well-Being Program category of Ragan’s Employee Communications & Top Places to Work Awards.

      For Mental Health Awareness Month last May, pet food company Canidae wanted to make sure employees knew that mental wellbeing was a core benefit principle that Canidae embraces, not just during Mental Health Awareness Month, but all year long.

      In the spirit of this commitment, Canidae rolled out an enormous, month-wide campaign to promote an emphasis on employee wellbeing, and the understanding that mental health is paramount to not just the company’s success, but i
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      Best Practice Award Winner - New Employee Onboarding
      New England Employee Benefit Council
      Best Practice Award winner issued by the New England Employee Benefit Council for Canidae’s virtual onboarding experience and use of technology to onboard and engage new employees.
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      Recruiter's Roundtable Profiled Organization for Best in Class Talent Acquisition Transformation
      Corporate leadership council
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      Platinum HR Award Finalist and Honorable Mention - Recruitment Category
      Ragan PR and Communications
      Award recognizing people, programs and/or products that are dedicated to driving HR success for their organizations and employees. The award indicates these individuals and/or organizations were instrumental in retaining, attracting, informing and supporting employees.

      Canidae's HR Team was selected as a finalist for their two-year project in building an end to end talent management strategy to support the workforce in Brownwood, Texas. Canidae embarked on a three-phase campaign to build a comprehensive and cost-effective talent strategy to attract, recruit, and retain a local workforce at their primary manufacturing facility to support overall company growth (volume and production), while decreasing costs and dependency on te
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      Video, Visual and Virtual Award Finalist- Employer Branding Video "Hungry for Goodness"
      Ragan PR and Communications
      Award recognizing teams that engaged their target audiences with captivating visual content and engaging virtual events.

      Canidae was recognized as finalist for Best Employer Branding Video describing Canidae's culture, employee value proposition and values. Remotely developed during COVID, showcasing Canidae's employees in their work environments, from a corporate team that was working from home, field locations, and onsite manufacturing.
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      Video, Visual and Virtual Award Finalist - Virtual Employee Meeting and Onboarding: "New to the Crew"
      Ragan PR and Communications
      Award recognizing teams that engaged their target audiences with captivating visual content and engaging virtual events.

      Canidae was recognized as finalist for Best Virtual Onboarding, a program developed during COVID to onboard new employees (and even not so new employees), in a college like course setting: Canidae 101 and Canidae 201. Canidae 101, facilitated by the People and Culture team, provides insights into everything an employee "needs to know" in their first few weeks a new company. Offered monthly, this modular driven program includes Company History, Culture Drivers, Communications, Total Rewards and general company insights getting employees excited about the Company they just joined. Canidae 201, offered one wee
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      Progress Over Perfection: A Mantra for HR and Leadership
      Forbes Human Resources Council May
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      Go to Lunch: A Meaningful Lesson for Challenging Times
      Forbes Mar
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      What About Mom?
      LinkedIn Feb
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      What's Luck Got to Do With It?
      Linked In Oct
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      Linking Competencies with an Integrated Talent Management Philosophy
      International Human Resources Development Corporation Feb
      Linking Competencies with an Integrated Talent Management Philosophy outlines the importance of competency creation, implementation, engagement with senior leadership, best practices and the overarching value proposition of how IHRDC’s (International Human Resources Development Corporation) Competency Management System (CMS) meets your talent management needs. It will help you identify how competencies materialize into real-time talent management deliverables as we meet some of the strategic directives of your organization.
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      Evolution of the Nature and Application of Competence in the Learning and Development of Oil and Gas Industry Personnel
      International Petroleum Technology Conference IPTC Dec
      Abstract
      The term “competence” is generally understood to mean, “the combination of awareness, knowledge, skills and attitude that an individual must demonstrate in order to meet the performance standards required of his or her job.” Although the primary use of competence in the international oil and gas industry has been and continues to be the identification and closure of skill and knowledge gaps, new and varied uses are being introduced and refined.

      Some of these new applications include recruiting (especially in cases where large numbers of nationals are needed for new projects), streaming trainees in entry-level training programs, proving employee competence to government regulators before being allowed to work in envi
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      I Went to Lunch and Got So Much More
      LinkedIn Nov
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