Lauren Kleinbaum

About Lauren Kleinbaum

I am an HR executive who believes that people strategy is the primary driver of business velocity. With 20 years of experience across high-growth tech (Tia), global prestige beauty (The Estée Lauder Companies), and large-scale retail (Macy’s), I specialize leading People Partner functions that serve as a true engine for organizational health and financial performance.I thrive at the intersection of organizational design and cultural transformation. Whether it’s scaling a clinical headcount by 360% in six months or leading HR strategy for 1,500+ employees in a 24/7 global supply chain, my focus remains the same: ensuring people decisions are grounded in business context and aligned with enterprise goals.Executive Partnership: Serving as a calm, credible advisor to leadership teams during high-stakes reorganizations, transformation, and workforce planning.Multi-site Leadership: Building and mentoring high-performing, distributed People Partner teams.Organizational Design: Optimizing spans, layers, and operating models to drive agility and role clarity in fast-scaling environments.Cultural Excellence: Championing psychological safety and employee well-being, consistently delivering 90th percentile engagement scores and double-digit gains in sentiment.I believe business success begins with how we treat our own teams. I am passionate about creating inclusive, high-performing environments where leaders are coached to be proactive advisors and employees feel a tangible connection to the company’s mission.

Experience

1. Senior Director, People

   Tia

   Nov 2021 — Present · New York, NY, US

   Lead the People function across People Partners, People Operations, and Learning & Development for a growing healthcare organization, partnering closely with the executive team on talent strategy and organizational design.Built and scaled foundational people infrastructure including performance management, promotion frameworks, career architecture, and compensation planning processes.Advise senior leaders on employee relations, organizational effectiveness, and leadership development while guiding the company through growth, restructuring, and operational change.Implement engagement strategies, talent planning processes, and manager enablement programs to strengthen teammate experience and operational performance.

Education

• Ithaca College

  Bachelor's, Applied Psychology

  2001 — 2004

Skills

• Succession Planning
• Employee Benefits
• Internet Recruiting
• Performance Improvement
• Employee Engagement
• Recruitment/Retention
• Interviews
• New Hire Orientations
• Employment Law
• Recruiting
• Applied Psychology
• Performance Management
• Global Talent Acquisition
• Screening
• Hiring
• Deferred Compensation
• Management
• Applicant Tracking Systems
• Talent Management
• Leadership
• Training
• Temporary Placement
• Employee Relations
• Human Resources
• Interviewing
• Talent Acquisition