Kelly Neason

Strategic HR Business Partner @American National

Leverages business and industry insights to manage the design, development, and delivery of HR programs, aligning with the business. • Creates, drives, and executes strategic workforce planning, succession planning, and organization structure input to achieve business function targets and milestones; integrated partner in the Talent Acquisition process from recruitment through onboarding; encourage building strength through diversity and inclusion • Develops people strategies and drive a high performance culture through talent management, performance management, and leadership development (e.g. coaching, counseling, career development, disciplinary actions) • Assigned to HRIS implementation team to solicit vendors and perform due diligence in choosing a new HRIS • Assigned to job framework team, to help determine a compensation philosophy and job framework. • Lead HR on all mergers and acquisitions. • Coaches and mentors HR team members. • Leads projects and develops tactical plans, schedules, and key milestones on key projects. • Informs COEs on business needs and deploys core HR initiatives (annual performance review, engagement, talent planning, etc.) to assigned client groups • Develops procedural changes to improve results. • Recommends actions and regularly exercises discretion in regard to key business processes.