VPHR Leadership
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Luis Lewin
Vice President for Human Resources
Phone: 765-494-7395 | Email | Bio
Rita Jackson
Administrative Assistant
Phone: 765-494-7395 | E-mail
Adedayo Adeniyi, SPHR, Six Sigma Black Belt, MPA
Director, Leadership and Organizational Development
Phone: 765-494-1683 | E-mail | Areas of Responsibility
- Leadership development
- Career development and succession planning
- Faculty and staff development
- Training needs assessment and training program development
- Staff advisory committees
- Annual staff evaluation
- Staff recognition programs
- Change management
- Process improvement / Organizational development
- HR Project Management Office
- HR strategic plan
- HR governance structure
- HR staff development and certification programs
Tom Bachmann
HR Director, University Development and Office of Marketing & Media
Phone: 765-494-0542 | E-mail | Areas of Responsibility
- Strategic human resource management for University Development Office and
Office of Marketing & Media
Vacant: Director, Compensation and Benefits
Phone | E-mail | Areas of Responsibility
Provides strategic direction in the following areas:
- Benefits plan design
- Benefits financial analysis and monitoring
- Benefits analysis
- Vendor relationships
- Leaves
- Compensation
- Classification
- Wellness
- WorkLife
Judy Casey
Business Manager
Phone: 765-494-3007 | E-mail | Areas of Responsibility
- Financial and management reports
- Liaison between VPHR staff and central business offices
- Interpretation, communication and execution of fiscal policies and procedures
- Budget planning and preparation
Brenda Coulson, SPHR
Director, Talent Acquisition
Phone: 765-494-0603 | E-mail | Areas of Responsibility
- Staff hiring and exceptions
- Staff Dual Career Assistance Program
- New employee onboarding
- New employee orientation
- Workforce planning
- VP for Human Resources policy administrator
- Diversity Task Force of the Executive Vice President for Business and Finance, Treasurer
Cheryl Gray
Manager, HR Information and Technology Services
Phone: 765-494-7388 | E-mail | Areas of Responsibility
- Human Resources data steward
- Reporting and data requests fulfillment
- Systems access
- System administration
- SAP Org Unit creation and maintenance
- Investigation of employee identity issues (career account, PUID)
- Processing of mass email messages to faculty and staff
- Web application development/Access database support for Human Resources
Pam Nesbitt, SPHR
HR Director, Academic Units and Employee Communication
Phone: 765-494-1185 | E-mail | Areas of Responsibility
- Liaison between academic units and Human Resources
- Consulting services
- Academic strategic planning
- Human Resources communications
Melissa Reardon Henry, JD
Director, Employee Relations
Phone: 765-496-6846 | E-mail | Areas of Responsibility
- Conflict resolution
- Consultation with organizational units and departments on the components of a healthy organizational environment and sound human resource management principles, policies and procedures
- Supervisory training
- Additional training to meet the needs of a department
- Reasonable accommodations under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and the ADA Amendments Act of 2008 (ADAAA)
- Unemployment compensation
- Administration of Grievance policy for administrative/professional and clerical/service staffs, Reduction in Workforce policy, Drug and Alcohol policy, and Provisional Period of Employment policy
- Drug and alcohol testing programs for select employee groups
- Exit interviews
Kevin Vedder, SPHR, Six Sigma Black Belt
Director, HR Service Center
Phone: 765-494-7137 | E-mail | Areas of Responsibility
Support, assistance and customer service to all university faculty, staff and
graduate student employees for:
- Medical insurance benefits
- Flexible spending accounts and health savings accounts
- Vision benefits
- Retirement programs
- Voluntary benefit programs
- Leaves processing
- Long term and short term disability programs
- Graduate student/fellowship insurance programs
- Business Systems Steering and Advisory Committees
- HR Project Management Office - program manager
- HR Operations team chair
Jackie Wilson, SPHR
Director, Human Resources for Information Technology
Phone: 765-496-3879 | E-mail | Areas of Responsibility
- Strategic human resource management for information technology
- HR Project Management Office – program manager
- Business Systems Prioritization Governance Committee
