Erin Gorsline

Vice President HR Business Partners @The Standard

Portland, OR, US

Consistently in top 1% of all company leaders in leadership behavior surveys. Experienced with leading Board of Directors committee conversations on HR strategy and regulatory issues. Proven experience leading a collaborative process to develop multiyear HR strategic plan, ensuring the right talent, culture, and leadership to achieve desired business strategy. Led development of redesign and implementation of performance management system, focused on driving higher performance, greater reward differentiation and increasing effectiveness of leader coaching and employee discussions. Increased employee belief that delivering greater results lead to greater rewards by 58%. Developed and implemented enterprise and executive succession management process, high potential talent identification and rotation opportunities, resulting in exceeding CEO goal for senior leader readiness five years in a row and 100% of key executive leadership positions with an internal ready now candidate within same time frame. Developed and led workforce planning process, resulting in business focused strategic workforce plans for each business line, focused on closing talent and leadership gaps to support business goals. Led development and implementation of jobs architecture, including new salary structure, leveling criteria, broad pay ranges, consolidated job titles and leader and core competencies. New structure enabled greater flexibility on rewarding top performers and critical skills, replacing an over focus on range midpoint. Built a repeatable engagement survey process focused on delivering actionable data to leaders at all levels of the organization. Focused effort led to results being above high performing company benchmark, a 67% increase in highly engaged employees and 32% increase in favorable sentiment on engagement index.

Saint Mary's University

Bachelor of Arts, English, Political Science

Nova Scotia Institute of Technology

Graduate Level Diploma, Human Resources

University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of Business

Advanced Human Resources Executive Program