Kendel Tompkins

About Kendel Tompkins

Dynamic Human Resources leader with experience working in total rewards, compliance, employee relations, and policy development/implementation.

Experience

1. Human Resources Consultant

   Paychex

   May 2021 — Present · Dallas-Fort Worth, TX, US

   Advise a client base of 90+ companies in a multitude of industries on strategic HR solutions and risk reducing practices to eliminate compliance issues and lower legal risk. Consultations include employee relations, terminations, recruiting, leaves of absence, compensation, performance management, succession planning and all other areas of human resource management.• Identify client long term goals and devise HR strategic plans to help proactively align human resource objectives with client goals. • Provide continuous compliance support to internal partners and clients by monitoring employment law changes and providing training, communications, and consultations on their applications. • Assist leadership groups in creating and maximizing total reward strategies, including compensation, benefits, recognition, career development, and other fringe benefits.• Facilitate training seminars for clients and their employees on a variety of topics including harassment, management skills, HIPAA, progressive discipline, and other HR related topics. • Leader on our Professional Employer Organization (PEO) open enrollment team tasked with creating and delivering training content to internal partners to communicate plan changes, increase benefit knowledge, and help retain clients. • Leader on our division’s diversity and inclusion team responsible for setting our internal D&I areas of focus, presenting to internal team members, and creating content to share with clients. • Subject matter expert for internal partners and clients surrounding all aspects of retirement and section 125 plan options including education, setup, and rollout. • Provide direction, training, and mentorship to internal team members to help with more impactful and innovative client consultations to help drive satisfaction scores. • Conduct benefit enrollment meetings and education for clients during open enrollment annually.

Education

• University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

  Bachelor’s Degree, Political Science and Government (Focus on Labor Studies)

  2006 — 2010

• Warren Township Highschool

  Business Focus

  2006 — 2010