Michelle Boot

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About Michelle Boot

Strategic and visionary leader with a dynamic background spanning government, higher education, retail, healthcare, nonprofit, and for-profit sectors. Skilled in guiding, empowering, and motivating teams to address challenges and enhance operational efficiency. Proficient in aligning HR strategies with business goals, ensuring compliance, and driving comprehensive engagement initiatives, while fostering diversity and inclusion. Strong focus on boosting employee engagement, nurturing talent, and cultivating a thriving organizational culture. Examples of my achievements include: • Improved benefits strategy; saved $200K annually and enhanced employee accessibility. • Rectified regulatory submission error, recouped $200K in penalties. • Achieved largest district Increase in employee engagement ratings over two years. • Designed and implemented approaches to improve employee development and increase bench strength for succession planning. • Established employee relations training and corrective action process, saved company costly settlements. • Overcame challenging circumstances to devise state-mandated delivery of training by deadline, avoided $250K in fines. • Circumvented insurance plan penalty by orchestrating state exception. • Avoided potential FMLA violations by creating and implementing training and processes. • Saved company $100K in max liability by restructuring PTO between existing and acquired companies. Specialties: Talent Management & Development, Program Development, Implementation, Integration Strategy, Workforce Planning, Project Management, Regulatory Compliance, HR Policies, Succession Planning, Training, Onboarding, Change & Communication Management, Recruiting, Organizational Development, Employee Relations, Program Design, Processes & Systems, Process Improvement, Problem Resolution