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Workforce Optimization and Strategy Team

Meet Our Team

deniz-mckelvy   Bari Brooks   Chris Hicks   Anita Wilhelm's
Deniz Mckelvy
Interim Director, Workforce
Optimization and Strategy		   Bari Brooks
Sr. Employee Relations
Consultant		   Chris Hicks
Engagement Consultant

 

 Anita Wihelm
Engagement Consultant
Shelia Holt
  Tracy Wodard
  Patricia Parker

 

  
Shelia Holt
Manager, Workforce
Absence and Recovery		   Tracy Woodard
Workers' Comp and
Leave Coordinator		   Patricia Parker
Worker's Comp
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/employmentlaw-posters/
FMLA:  https://hr.vanderbilt.edu/fmla/
Workers’ Compensation: https://hr.vanderbilt.edu/policies/workers-compensation.php
Unemployment Fraud Support: https://hr.vanderbilt.edu/hr_consultants/unemploymentfraud.php