Umbrex is pleased to welcome Jill Markle Hidaji with Jill Hidaji. Jill  is an HR Advisor and Organizational Coach with 15+ years experience. She enjoys working with Clients to evolve their HR functionality & systems. In addition to her years of leading HR practices as SVP at Regions Financial, HR Director at Juice Plus+ and as a fractional consultant at Clermont Partners most recently, she is also an executive coach who specializes in systemic and neuro-science based solutions for organizations,…

Umbrex is pleased to welcome Ariane Kristof. Ariane is an independent HR consultant working internationally out of Germany. After several years of strategy consulting with BCG she has focussed her work on implementation of strategy and organization blueprints for her clients. Her objective is “translating from slides and making transformations come alive in peoples´ behaviors and actions”. She project manages large, multi-site re-org and transformation efforts. Ariane has lived and worked across various countries in North America, Europe and Africa,…

In this article Stephen Redwood explains how to increase the strategic value of the HR department. If there is one thing that has been a constant over my years in HR and decades as a consultant, it has been the sense that the HR function is too often a supplicant to other functions and lacks the confidence to see itself as an equal. So, when clients ask me how they should be thinking about the evolution of their own HR…