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Workforce Optimization and Strategy Team

Meet The Team

  • Chelsea Bousson

    Engagement Consultant

  • Bari Brooks

    Employee Relations/Engagement Consultant

  • Jessica Earnest

    Employee Relations Consultant

  • Chris Hicks

    Engagement Consultant

  • Shelia Holt

    Workforce Absence and Recovery Manager

  • Kev (ChangKyu) Jung

    Talent Acquisition/SkillBridge Coordinator

  • Deniz Mckelvy

    Engagement Consultant

  • Patricia Parker

    Workers Compensation and Leave Coordinator

  • Michael Payne

    People Experience Coordinator

  • Anita Wilhelm

    Engagement Consultant

  • Tracy Woodard

    Workers Compensation and Leave Coordinator

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Mission

The mission of the Workforce Optimization and Strategy Team is to promote a respectful, diverse and high performing work culture through partnership with employees and leaders, to identify and respond changing needs, while advancing the overall mission of Vanderbilt University.

What we do?

Help foster supervisor and employee relationships and providing guidance to employees and leaders on strategic people initiatives, workforce analysis, policy creation, interpretation and guidance, leave management, employee and labor relations, workers' compensation, discipline and performance management, leader and employee training.

Key Information:

PE Policies and Procedures: https://hr.vanderbilt.edu/policies/
Employment Laws: https://hr.vanderbilt.edu/requiredfederalnotices-posters/
FMLA: https://hr.vanderbilt.edu/fmla/
Workers’ Compensation: Policy
Unemployment Fraud Support: https://hr.vanderbilt.edu/hr_consultants/unemploymentfraud