COMPTEAM - Key Persons
Becca has 15+ years of experience in providing organizational support to domestic and international companies and leading executives within both large and small corporations. Detail-oriented with strong Project Management capabilities and the skillset to multi-task and thrive in a fast-paced environment, she looks to keep everyone on task and on schedule. Becca is also a Certified TMA USA Practitioner and an Internationally Accredited Life/Health Coach and Practitioner.
Job Titles:
- Founder of HR With a Heart
- People Strategist
Char Miller, founder of HR with a Heart, is a human resources consultant, business owner, and Chief Human Resources Officer at Rocky Mountain Health Advocates. She left the corporate world in 2016 when hit with multiple life-changing events and no support from her "heartless" HR team, and set out to re-create a whole new corporate world. She established "HR with a Heart" to help people navigate HR from the inside out and provide career coaching.
These days, she is focusing her passions on integrated talent management at Rocky Mountain Health Advocates. She's applying 25 years of experience with revolutionary, out-of-the-box principles to implement the TMA Method tools and strategies to build a fast-growing business - even in the pandemic - because of investing in their people and using positive psychology.
Char asserts that the new generation wants "something different." As a talent management expert who has lived the entire corporate world experience, she is now using TMA methods and tools to lead a multimillion dollar start-up where the talent she hires and retains are thriving.
In the past, she's advised organizations including Kaiser Permanente, Banner Health, Vail Resorts, and McLane Grocery Distribution, City of Westminster, rMoms to achieve solutions to attract, retain, and develop employees. She has a talent for working with C-level executives to define performance goals and organizational objectives, and then design strategies that align culture with a roadmap to achieve the company's vision and business goals. She is most proud of her wins implementing transforming strategic talent management strategies.
Job Titles:
- Program and Project Manager
As an experienced Program and Project Manager, Danica has over 15 years
experience leading high-visibility projects across multiple industries. She holds a
Debbie's expertise includes developing HR strategies and delivering HR programs and services, including talent assessment, recruitment, organizational restructuring, employee relations, and compensation. As a business professional, Debbie ensures that HR programs and services are aligned with the firm's strategic plan and operational goals.
Heather Hormell is an expert in compensation, system implementation and data integrity and analytics. She works with small to medium sized businesses with 300 to 5,000 employees. She helps them by adding structure to their job architecture, developing and implementing streamlined processes that enhance data integrity, guiding them in system selection, overseeing system implementation, and determining pay structures through market analysis and internal equity evaluation. She sources relevant market surveys to use for competitive compensation analysis and provides expertise to clients. She has the ability to present a broader view to her clients through compensation analysis, job architecture and systems implementations that support growth and data integrity. She has a special focus in fin-tech.
Prior to CompTeam, Heather created and implemented new employee onboarding programs, developed and implemented department-specific new employee programs, ongoing employee development, and regulatory training. She oversaw the implementation of many HR Information Systems (HRIS) across the employee life cycle from core HR management tools, to compensation and performance management and learning and development.
Heather holds Certified Professional (SHRM-CP) and Human Resource Information Professional (HRIP) certificates and membership with the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the International Association for Human Resource Information Management (IHRIM). She is also certified as a Professional in Human Resources® (PHR) from the HR Certification Institute(HRCI).Notable companies and organizations she's worked for, or with, include Transocean, Mercury Payment Systems (Worldpay now FIS), New Belgium Brewing, System1, Univision, Sysco, Sangamo, Workfront, ADP, and Workday.
She takes pride in helping her clients create data integrity standards, improve employee data integrity, successfully implement Workday Advance Compensation Planning, Compensation Cloud, CompTrak, gradar, SuccessFactors, ADP Workforce Now, Saba Learning Management, Compensation Tool, MarketPay.
She was honored with the "Employee of the Year" distinction by Mercury Payment Systems in 2012.
"During the major transition and implementation of our new Workday Advanced Compensation Module, Heather proved to be an integral member of the team. Heather's ability to support the team went well beyond the implementation of this system. One of Heather's stand out contributions was her work in the identification and build-out of a comprehensive survey library, used to complete Compensation Analysis for both our offshore and shore-based populations. Heather acted as an effective and knowledgeable liaison in support of the all-around implementation efforts." Erin King, Manager of Global Compensation, Transocean.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Managing Consultant
- Compensation Advisor
Howard Nizewitz is a compensation advisor and strategic HR consultant, a crusader for "Break Free From Spreadsheets," and an advocate for changing the dynamics of the compensation conversation. He wants to put the fun back in compensation!
His extensive expertise in compensation management comes with a 30-year track record of implementing strategic and successful compensation programs in the financial services and technology industries, globally and regionally. His other areas of expertise include HR consulting, deferred compensation, incentive plan design and talent management.
Job Titles:
- Senior Compensation Analyst
Jackson Brockway is a CompTeam senior compensation analyst who helps clients in a wide range of industries perform in-depth analyses of their current organizational processes and structures in order to identify areas for improved efficiency and affordability. He believes the most important thing he does is help leaders look at their organization's pay plans more holistically, paying special attention to equity and competitiveness. Jackson holds a Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources Management and Business Management from the University of Colorado, Denver. He is most proud of guiding clients to better understand various aspects of compensation so they can continue to be competitive and promote pay equity for their people for years to come.
As an experienced Program and Project Manager, Jessica has over 20 years' experience managing, with methods of inclusion, populations that are neurodiverse. To ensure work completion and success, she further has expertise in motivation techniques and social and emotional learning as well as training in programs to support clients who have English as a second language. She has successfully led team-building activities across various industries and has training in conflict management as well. Jessica holds a Bachelor of arts in Liberal Studies and a Master of Arts in Special Education from California State University, Sacramento. Her main goal is to utilize her organizational and project management skills to help companies achieve their goals while building trusting relationships with employees and leaders.
Job Titles:
- Founder
- Managing Consultant
Sam Reeve, CompTeam founder and managing consultant, is a pay and talent performance expert, and a certified global compensation professional. His extensive experience with pay programs and competitive compensation analysis, career architecture, and talent management allows him to help clients of rapidly growing firms see real, measurable results, including increased productivity and significant pay savings, year-over-year.
Described as an innovative thinker with practical application, Sam strongly believes that everyone needs to be healthy and happy in their own lives in order to strive as a high-performing contributor. He is driven to help organizations match their employees with the work they are passionate about and reward their people for outstanding work.
Sam started CompTeam in 2013 after years of being frustrated by big consulting firms offering cookie-cutter solutions that don't quite fit the needs of agile companies today. CompTeam allows him to share his passion for innovative people solutions that truly make a difference for the workforce and the companies and clients they serve. He takes pride in his dedication to creating meaningful connections between companies and the people they hire to deliver outstanding products and services to the community.
Prior to founding CompTeam, Sam led compensation at notable firms including BlackRock, McKesson and Automatic Data Processing (ADP) where he helped transform organizations from startups to rapidly growing and mature organizations in 23 countries, across five continents, with customized pay and recognition programs.
Sam is dedicated to helping people be healthy and happy - in and outside of work. He loves playing in the great outdoors with his family and running the Hesperus volunteer ski patrol.
"This is a team that knows compensation inside and out. They are strong in helping you build a comprehensive compensation philosophy that aligns with your business needs. They can help any size company create a sustainable, competitive, and fair compensation program. Love working with Sam!" Pattie Money, CHRO Pinnacle Leadership
Job Titles:
- Human Resource Consultant
- People Strategist
Sumit Singla is a human resource consultant dedicated to helping small and medium enterprises globally scale up with cutting-edge practices and solutions. He helps companies diagnose the current state of their talent function through questionnaires and interviews. Then he helps co-create the roadmap for change. Sumit focuses on short-term issues that can be quickly fixed and simultaneously builds to ensure that the organization keeps moving in the right direction. He agrees with Doug Conant, Campbell's Soup CEO who said, "To win the marketplace, you must first win the workplace." He believes it is crucial to create an experience that allows employees to bring their A-game every single day.
Sumit has had extensive experience working at Accenture, Deloitte, Aon, and GE. He specializes in delivering cutting-edge HR practices, organizational design, HR transformation, cloud services, strategy, DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion). In 2019, Sumit completed the Strategic HR Business Partner, Performance Management Reimagined, and People as Competitive Advantage courses at the Josh Bersin Academy and the TMA Method certification. He attended 2018 Truly Human Coach training at Accenture. In 2017, he completed the Influencing People, Managing Talent, and Inspiring and Motivating Individuals courses at the University of Michigan. In 2016, he studied Gamification and People Analytics at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. In the same year, he was certified as an HR Analytics Professional and Behavioral Interviewing at Aon Hewitt and Adept-15TM Personality Coach in 2015.
Sumit is honored to be among the 2% Top Rated professionals on Upwork. He was recognized among Josh Bersin's 2019 Top 25 global learners. He was appreciated by a client for high-quality transformation in 2019 as well as the 2017 Accenture HR Innovation School winner and received the 2016 Client Delivery award. He was delighted to receive the highest feedback score of 3.9/4 across the Aon Hewitt facilitator pool in 2016 and win the ‘Client Delivery' award for excellent HR diagnostics in 2015.
"Sumit is one of those people in the organization, whom you can bank upon any time for any kind of help or work. He came across as the smartest, most diligent, and idea-rich person whenever you need a piece of advice or solution to any problems. I would love to work again with him in the future too." Rahul Bhatnagar, Certified ScrumMaster, Six Red Marbles.
"I worked closely with Sumit in many group assignments at XLRI and his creativity and structured thought process helped us in adding immense value to our assignments. Sumit is a thorough professional with years of valuable experience behind him. He is extremely sharp and has the rare ability to think on his feet, which when combined with his passion for HR, will be a definite asset to any team he will work with. Amitabh Yadav, Global Head - C&B, HR Excellence
Viktoria is a strategic compensation professional with a specialty in salesforce effectiveness and optimization. She consults with clients in a variety of industries and passes on her knowledge to them through coaching. She believes the work she does is impactful. She's worked with clients of all sizes, including Fortune 500 companies, in numerous industries including healthcare, technology, industrial/fast-moving consumer goods, finance/insurance and professional services. She is very proud of the work she has completed that led to compelling growth and great accomplishments for her clients. Her education in industrial engineering helps her excel at process optimization. Her areas of expertise include optimizing sales incentive plans to drive business results, evaluating sales roles and job architectures for efficiency, creating external and internal salesforce effectiveness tools, and more. She's worked for well-regarded organizations including Korn Ferry, PepsciCo, Quest Diagnostics.
Wendy Graham (PHR, SHRM-CP, tma), founder of Octopus 8 Consulting, is a dynamic Learning and Development professional and a marketing communications expert. Her superpower is clear written and verbal communication. She helps organizations of all sizes soar to new heights when they improve, implement and manage talent processes, from acquisition, onboarding, and workforce learning to talent development, optimization, and change management. She uses her international relations background and experience living abroad and traveling to bring a global perspective to her work, and to quickly connect with and influence others across multiple time zones.
Over her rich 20-plus-year corporate career, she has positively contributed to the success of small and medium tech startups including Mercury Payment Systems, Vantiv, Worldpay, Local News Network, NewGen Solutions, mParticle, and System1 as well as large international Fortune 500 corporations, such as AIG and FIS Global.
She is a credentialed human resource professional since 2013 through the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) - SHRM-CP and Human Capital Institute (HCI) - PHR. She is certified in Price Pritchett's Change Essentials, Predictive Index (PI), and the TMA Method. Wendy holds a Bachelors of Arts in International Relations with a minor in Mandarin Chinese from The College of Wooster, Ohio and took classes at the NYU School of Continuing Studies.
Outside the corporate world, Wendy is also an internationally-renowned community dance leader and social dance teacher. She loves sharing her joy of music, song and dance with people of all ages and abilities. She is most proud of being resilient in the face of devastating difficulties.