David Edwards

DIRECTOR OF HR & TALENT ▷ Workforce Planning ▷ Process Improvement ▷ Diversity & Inclusion at Envision Education

✴️ Cultivating strong relationships and propelling growth, diversity, and development in the workforce to deliver exceptional results in support of strategic goals within the educational industry is what I do best. 🤝 I am a people-centric professional who is dedicated to driving organizational change and operational excellence. My expertise lays in recruiting and hiring, personnel challenges, compliance, policy development and implementation, and performance improvement. I pride myself on being a strategic advisor and business partner who excels at collaborating with stakeholders of all levels to define and driver of innovative solutions, culture-based initiatives, and professional and personal development programs that enable growth and transformation. 📣 SELECTED HIGHLIGHTS: ▷ Identified and introduced innovative strategies, tools, resources, and processes throughout the full cycle of human resources and people management operations. Introduced new technologies, identified and established new benefit vendors, and implemented training and development programs that reduced education and labor code violations by 50%. ▷ Expertise in developing and engaging employees, leadership teams, and community partners in support of a broad range of business goals, including outreach efforts, program collaboration and partnerships, and direct services. Catalyst in increasing diversity within leadership teams by 60%. ▷ Lead matrixed teams comprising professionals of all levels and specialties to propel long- and short-term goals for a variety of projects/programs and the organization as a whole. Then work to further define those goals into achievable action items, delivering desired results.