Kendra Cusack

About Kendra Cusack

I am a passionate professional and leader who is highly driven and motivated, who exudes integrity and high ethical standards in the workplace. As the Vice President of Human Resources at Kidder Mathews, I provide leaders and employees with coaching, consultation, and guidance on the effective management of people, structure, organization effectiveness, resourcing, and relationships. I assists leaders and employees at all levels with developing and consistently demonstrating effective communication, feedback, recognition, helping build ownership/accountability in leadership, and conflict management. I drive collaboration within the Human Resources department across the company by providing transparent, thoughtful, effective services and communication. I am a data-driven, people and solutions oriented individual that remains efficient, effective, and flexible to achieve results that are needed to benefit the organization. I will rise to any challenge faced to secure success. My robust skill set that spreads over a wide range of disciplines makes an immediate impact within any environment. Specialties: Employee Relations & Labor Relations | Training & Development | Full Cycle Recruitment | Payroll & Benefit Administration | VISA Administration | HRIS & ATS Implementation | Employment Laws WA, OR, CA, NV, AZ, ID | Leaves of Absences & Workers Compensation | Accommodations | Leadership & Management Consultation | Onboarding | Employee Recognition & Engagement | Data Analysis & HR Metrics | Attrition & Retention Strategies | Performance & People Management | Process & Procedure Creation | Communication Strategies | Budgets & Compensation | Compliance | Safety & OSHA | Audits HRIS & ATS Platform Knowledge: PayNW | ADP | Trello | Paychex I Ceridian DayforceAwards: Oncon Icon 2025 Top 50 HR Teams

Experience

1. Vice President Human Resources

   Kidder Mathews

   Jun 2023 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   I provide leaders and employees with coaching, consultation, and guidance on the effective management of people, structure, organization effectiveness, resourcing, and relationships. I assists leaders and employees at all levels with developing and consistently demonstrating effective communication, feedback, recognition, helping build ownership/accountability in leadership, and conflict management. I drives collaboration within the Human Resources department across the company by providing transparent services and communication as a member for the executive leadership team. I am a data-driven, people and solutions-oriented individual that remains efficient, effective, and flexible to achieve results that are needed to benefit the employees and organization. As the Leader of HR I focus on all day-to-day operations & elements of the Kidder Mathews programs, policies, initiatives, including employee recruiting, benefits, compliance, records and information, payroll, leaves & accommodations, reporting & analytics, benchmarking, compensation, performance & training, and safety programs companywide.

Education

• Oregon State University

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Political Science, Public Relations and Public Policy

  2013