PRACTICE AREAS: Human Resources
Human Resources has been a focus practice area since the inception of our company more than eight years ago. While we are not a one dimensional pure HR search firm, we have expertise in finding HR senior leader talent in many industries and for all size organizations. We have the experience and expertise to identify true HR business partners for your senior positions.
We are also more than an executive search firm. Westport provides a variety of talent acquisition, employee engagement and consulting solutions for your organization.
Christina Stroud
Christina Stroud brings more than 25 years of Human Resources expertise in the automotive, engineering, packaging and transportation fields to Westport Intl. She has specialized in building businesses, which includes everything from start-up companies, turn-arounds, and growth opportunities. She has extensive experience leading organizational transformations through attracting and developing the best talent and aiding in creating a culture of engagement.
Christina graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance and also completed her Masters of Human Resources Development from Clemson University. Christina was fortunate enough to work at BMW Manufacturing for 15 years when it grew from 500 employees to more than 7,000. She quickly progressed through the company’s management structure and during her tenure managed Recruiting, Employee Relations, HR Operations, International HR, HRIS and Continuous Improvement. Missing the start-up world, she joined a new venture company, Proterra, where they build all-electric city buses. Under Christina’s leadership, Proterra grew from 20 employees to 200 where she built the entire HR infrastructure from the ground up. Her next opportunity came with Day & Zimmermann where she supported the Engineering, Construction and Maintenance division. Once again bitten by the growth bug, she joined as the Corporate HR Director for a third-party packaging company in Greenville named Multi-Pack Solutions. She was responsible for locations in Greenville, Chicago and Milwaukee.
Christina enjoys helping companies become stronger by supporting their HR needs so they can focus on their core business. She will bring expertise and experience to your company to deal with your HR objectives and build a strategic plan to meet your company’s bottom line goals.
Talent Acquisition Solutions – Our depth of expertise…
- Executive Retained and Modified Searches for senior HR leaders
- Unbundled search solutions
- Strategic outsourced talent acquisition teams for professional and mid-level staffing
- We provide a dedicated recruiting team for your organization without you having to build the function internally
- Offered through our PinPoint Talent Services team
- Contingent searches for professional and mid-management roles offered through our PinPoint Solutions team
- Talent Acquisition Evaluation
- We provide organizations with an assessment of their internal talent acquisition and assessment processes
- We assist organizations with building strategies, tools and processes for improving their talent acquisition processes
- Recruiter Training and Development (We have a history of developing talented recruiters who consistently outperform internal recruiters in our client companies. Our clients want to hire our people.)
- We have the expertise in talent acquisition and can provide training programs to increase the effectiveness of your internal recruiting team
Employee Engagement and Consulting Solutions
Westport is proud to partner with Scarlett Surveys, the global provider of AER™ Employee Engagement Surveys enabling organizations to fairly and scientifically manage human resources, build strong leadership, optimize employee effort and measurably improve business performance. Scarlett’s unique AER™ Survey system has been developed over 50 years and with over 15 million surveys. This survey is the only validated employee survey that measures all 15 Drivers of Employee Engagement ™ that affect on-the-job behavior. AER survey results can be reliably acted upon after the first survey. Westport can assist your organization in taking employee engagement to the next level!
New Leader Assimilation and Onboarding…
A vertically integrated approach to placing new leaders
Any time a new leader joins an organization there is a period of chaos and concern. The team knows that their world is about to change. This can be a significant emotional strain for most teams and organizations. You have a new leader, running as fast as they can to learn everything as fast as they possibly can. In the meantime, you have the team standing off to one side wondering who this new person really is and what’s about to change.
A new leader assimilation is an effective, non-threatening way to get both the leader and his/her team aligned, to get answers to the unspoken questions and concerns and to create a new platform for working together. The process is most effective when facilitated by an outside party, someone who doesn’t come with history or bias, and usually takes only one day. Conducting a new leader assimilation can have a positive sustained impact on the performance of the leader and team. Westport offers several options for new leader assimilations and can easily customize a process to meet your business need.
