Emily Atencio

About Emily Atencio

As a transformational Human Resources professional, I am passionate about empowering leaders and transforming organizations to achieve lasting success. With a strong foundation in leadership development, organizational redesign, and people management, I specialize in aligning HR strategies with business goals to create high-performing teams and sustainable growth.I thrive on coaching leaders to unlock their fullest potential, leveraging their unique talents to drive innovation, foster employee engagement, and enhance workplace culture. My strategic mindset allows me to see the bigger picture, enabling me to guide organizations through complex changes, from workforce planning to organizational development.As a skilled arranger and problem-solver, I excel at analyzing intricate systems, identifying opportunities, and delivering actionable solutions that improve performance management, enhance employee relations, and promote diversity and inclusion. My ability to connect individual strengths with organizational needs is key to achieving measurable results in training and development and talent acquisition.An innovator at heart, I bring an ideation-driven approach to my work, leveraging HR strategy, policy implementation, and data-backed HR metrics to inspire collaboration, growth, and positive change. With a deep commitment to leadership development and creating meaningful impact, I strive to build sustainable, people-focused solutions that empower teams and advance organizational success.

Experience

1. Director of Human Resources

   United States Courts

   Mar 2023 — Present

   Span of Control: 3 Agencies | 4 Direct Reports | Approximately 350 Employees* Provides leadership and full-line supervision to employees in the human resources department who have a wide variety of responsibilities. Establishes job responsibilities and performance expectations of these employees and provides support in meeting performance expectations. Provides day-to-day direction on producing high-quality work product;* Reviews, researches, develops, and recommends personnel policies, which must adhere to the national guidance while contributing to an environment which fosters employee safety and security, innovation, inclusion, active engagement, and a shared commitment to serving the public;* Designs and executes successful and adaptable staffing strategies for a variety of salaried positions. Drives a full range of recruitment functions – candidate engagement, platform presence, applicant screening, development of interview questions and testing, creation of selection criteria, stakeholder counsel on selection. – with a focus on implicit bias elimination, diversity and inclusion, and succession planning.* Provides limited counsel to staff on grievances, adverse actions, equal employment opportunity, and employment dispute resolution issues.* Oversees personnel processing activities including new hires, pay changes, transfers, bonuses, separation – cradle to grave personnel administration. This includes ensuring compliance with appropriate guidelines, policies, management initiatives, employee equity standards, and approved internal controls;* Provides guidance to leadership in all areas of human resources - employee relations, leave, succession planning, inclusion, employee motivation and redirection, effective employee evaluation, staff development, compensation and recognition, recruitment, and more.

Education

• Colorado State University Global

  Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Human Resources Management and Operations Management and Supervision

  2015 — 2018

• Colorado State University College of Business

  Master of Business Administration - MBA