Mark Carlson

About Mark Carlson

Strategic and innovative HR Professional with extensive experience across a number of industries, including retail, marketing, manufacturing, healthcare and various service fields. Company affiliations include SUCCESS Partners, Stryker, SimplexGrinnell, AIMCO, At Home and Circuit City. In nearly 20 years of operational HR experience, Mark has helped companies leverage their bottom line by providing thought provoking and strategic HR leadership. Having expertise in building and leveraging Culture, Organizational Development, Talent Acquisition & Management, Succession Planning, Performance Management and Employee Relations, Mark excels at and has a proven track record in turnover reduction, cost saving recruiting strategies, improving internal development programs and internal promotions through succession planning. Through understanding of how people drive the P&L, Mark has a track record of driving bottom line results through people and can quickly address the opportunities within an organization and provide a number of revenue generating and cost saving solutions. In building an HR Department, Mark has also created team member handbooks, policy and procedures and onboarding documents from scratch. Mark can also assist in benefit re-design for cost savings and 401k RFP.Mark has the ability to lead in the field as well as the training room and with his Gallup, Birkman, and Achieve Global certifications, he will help you leverage your team and get the most out of them all.Mark is a graduate of the University of Louisiana, Lafayette in Business and is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management.

Experience

1. Managing Partner

   Carlsonhrconsulting

   Oct 2017 — Present

   Strategic and innovative HR Professional with extensive experience across a number of industries, including retail, marketing, manufacturing, healthcare and various service fields. Company affiliations include SUCCESS Partners, Stryker, SimplexGrinnell, AIMCO, At Home and Circuit City. With 20 years of operational HR experience, Mark has helped companies leverage their bottom line by providing thought provoking and strategic HR leadership. Having expertise in building and leveraging Culture, Leadership Development, Organizational Development, Talent Acquisition & Management, Succession Planning, Performance Management and Employee Relations, Mark excels at and has a proven track record in turnover reduction, cost saving recruiting strategies, improving internal development programs and internal promotions through succession planning. Through understanding of how people drive the P&L, Mark has a track record of driving bottom line results through people and can quickly address the opportunities within an organization and provide a number of revenue generating and cost saving solutions. In building an HR Department, Mark has also created team member handbooks, policy and procedures and onboarding documents. Mark can also assist in benefit re-design for cost savings and 401k RFP.Mark has the ability to lead in the field as well as the training room and with his Gallup, Birkman, and Achieve Global certifications, he will help you leverage your team and get the most out of them all.Mark is a graduate of the University of Louisiana, Lafayette in Business and is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management.

Education

• University of Louisiana at Lafayette

  BS, Business Administration

  1988 — 1993

Skills

• Change Management
• Onboarding
• Project Planning
• Leadership Development
• New Hire Orientations
• Employment Law
• Organizational Effectiveness
• Workforce Planning
• Labor Relations
• Hiring
• Deferred Compensation
• Coaching
• Benefits Administration
• Peoplesoft
• Applicant Tracking Systems
• Technical Recruiting
• Job Descriptions
• Succession Planning
• Payroll
• Program Management
• HR Consulting
• Budgets
• Hris
• HR Policies
• Team Building
• Management
• Union
• Talent Management
• Employee Engagement
• Talent Acquisition
• Recruiting
• Sourcing
• Performance Management
• Employee Training
• Operations Management
• Training Delivery
• Leadership
• Customer Service
• Retail
• Training