Sedona Partners

Carol Breen
1542 Southfield Road
Birmingham, MI 48009
800-875-4839 [phone]
carolbreen@sedonapartners.com


Non-Profit Experience Carol Breen?s education, work and volunteer experiences, have helped her develop a broad understanding of what is required to create an effective, sustainable organization as well as specialized expertise in Human Resources (including Change Management, Total Rewards, Compensation and Performance Management). Examples relevant to BEST include: Practiced as an RN in both rural and urban public health settings; Managed a multi-site health care early detection and treatment program whose clients were families on Medicaid.
Skills Profile Human Resources,Organizational Management
IT Expertise
Affiliations CCP- Certified Compensation Professional
Consulting Summary Carol?s firm, Sedona Partners, specializes in developing competitive people/compensation/total rewards strategies and programs for its client organizations. Our goal is to create the competitive package and environment to enable our clients to attract, retain and engage the talent needed to effectively compete in today's highly competitive marketplace. Our emphasis is on aligning business strategy with people/rewards strategy for long-term sustainability. Tactical areas and tools include organizational assessment, market research, program design, and development of strategic change and communications plans. Clients include:  ArtServe of Michigan  Baker College  CO-OP Financial Services Network  DENSO  Detroit Public Schools  Flint Library  Harcourt  Henry Ford Health System  Hospice of Michigan  Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center  Mercy Memorial Hospital  The Accident Fund Insurance Company of America/ United Heartland  The Manitowoc Company  The University of Michigan Health System  Visiting Nurse Association of SE Michigan
Professional Summary Carol Breen?s education, work as a manager in the health care public sector and as a consultant, combined with her volunteer experiences, have helped her develop a broad understanding of what is required to create an effective, sustainable organization as well as specialized Human Resources expertise. As a Consultant, she conducted organizational assessments, as part of all Total Rewards (Compensation, Benefits, Learning & Development, and Work Environment)/Compensation projects, for a variety of non-profit organizations. Non-profit industry sectors included health care, education, arts association, insurance, and services. Assessment tools used included executive and management interviews, focus groups and surveys. Planned and supported organizational changes and communications related to developing and implementing new performance management and compensation programs. Helped organizations define management levels, roles and responsibilities as well as job levels and related criteria. As the president of a local, volunteer professional organization, rebuilt and implemented succession planning for the Board, built brand identity, and began to grow membership
Admin Experience
Our References Diana Parkinson -Tripp
Henry Ford Health System
Vice President with Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
586-405-5727


Jo Anne Mondowney - Director
Flint Public Library
810-249-2041

Jill DeNiro - Vice President, Human Resources
CO-OP Network
909-948-2504

Wayne Jackson - Director Employee Services
Accident Fund Insurance Company of America
517-367-1509

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