Kathy Herndon
Director, Culture, Communications & Engagement at Kimball International
- Role
- Director, Culture, Communications & Engagement at Kimball International
- Location
- Jasper, IN, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Kathy Herndon
Experienced HR & Employee Communications leader with deep technical HR expertise and a passion for leading teams through employee engagement, organizational transformation, and culture programming. Demonstrates passion by supporting c-level executives and leaders in creating a positive culture through HR initiatives, enabling and developing high performance teams and environments.
Experience
Director, Culture, Communications & Engagement
Jan 2021 — Present
Lead internal partners and communications agency in developing & delivering KII’s global employee communications strategy. • Lead HR partners & agencies through merger & acquisition processes to ensure successful integration, programming & employee communications.• Led development of KII’s first DE & I strategic plan, delivering a multi-year plan & programming from 20••••23. • Lead KII’s Employee Engagement strategy, partnering with HR team members to deliver annual surveys, action plans, employee communications, executive touch points, & engagement events. • Sit on KII’s ESG Council, ensuring annual ESG report champions actions & milestones for Talent Acquisition and Development, DE & I, Social, & Community. • Support all c-level executive messaging development & touchpoint leading partners & agencies in crafting topics & messaging for executive communications, town halls, speeches, etc. • Partner with HNI executives & HR leaders following 2023 acquisition of KII to develop integration roadmap that preserves KII culture programming.
Education
Indiana University Bloomington
Bachelor's Degree
Skills
- Process Improvement
- Management
- Organizational Development
- Enterprise Software
- Hrit
- Training
- Data Analysis
- Data Privacy
- Software Development
- Erp
- Software Quality Assurance
- Technical Communication
- Metrics
- Social Media
- Technical Documentation
- HR Software
- Personnel Management
- Saas
- Process Analysis
- Vendor Relations
- Databases
- Systems Analysis
- Human Resources
- Strategy
- Program Management
- Software Design
- Software Project Management
- Project Management
- Hris
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