Raina Dewald

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About Raina Dewald

I am visionary leader with extensive experience leading and supporting HR, talent acquisition, recruitment, employee growth, process improvement, and organizational progress operations. I believe in HR's pivotal role in shaping an organization's culture, fostering employee engagement, and optimizing talent management initiatives to achieve desired outcomes through an employee-centric culture. My passion for aligning HR practices with broader business objectives has resulted in tangible improvements in workforce productivity, retention, and overall organizational performance. I am skilled in streamlining human resource functions, including managing the entire employee life cycle, reporting on metrics, directing full recruitment cycle, training and development, enhancing workforce retention, predicting staffing requirements, ensuring employee wellness, and compliance with regulations. I have proven track record of collaborating with executive teams to align HR practices with business objectives to improve employee productivity. My focus has been on driving operational efficiency and coaching employees and managers, and my achievements reflect my success in those areas. Strongly self-directed, with a drive to continuously improve my team’s performance, I am able to select, train, motivate, and grow exceptional teams. I have natural talent for identifying inefficiencies and a record of turning around under-performing operations. My signature accomplishments: • Decreased turnover by 50% by designing new onboarding initiatives and training standards. • Obtained and other funding during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to retain employees. • Created culture of teamwork and accountability through consistent and energetic management. • Achieved national recognition as one of top ten dealer representatives for NCR's CounterPoint software. • Led nationally recognized fundraising and outreach programs to benefit the ADA and other non-profit organizations. • Streamlined day-to-day operational activities by leading and overseeing 150 employees across five departments. • Established human resources strategies aligned with organization's mission and long-range plan by collaborating with departmental leaders. • Launched new technology-based solutions for multiple functional areas of the business, improving efficiency in record keeping, payroll processing, sales and purchasing, inventory management, accounting, service dispatching, and project management.