JEN ULLRICH EVESLAGE

SENIOR EXECUTIVE
TALENT MANAGEMENT, OPERATIONS, BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT

Proven, repeated success building high-performing teams, reliable infrastructure, and in scaling revenue

  • Navigates complexity and ambiguity with a growth mindset, helps others manage change

  • Clarifies and operationalizes strategic vision, exceptionally capable and productive

  • Creates strong connected teams, award-winning programs, record-breaking revenues 

  • Hires outstanding talent, optimizes human capital, grows capability across the enterprise

  • Cultivates relationships, manages stakeholders - direct, kind, trustworthy advisor and coach

  • Synthesizes information quickly, relies on data for decision making

  • Executes plans swiftly, pivots as needed

  • Manages budgets effectively $1M+ operating expense and $1B+ revenue 

  • Builds compelling narratives - engaging speaker, facilitator and panelist, highly rated

10+ years expertise and direct oversight in corporate leadership roles in the following areas:

  • Culture transformation, HR strategy and organizational development

  • Leadership development, executive coaching, succession planning - Hogan certified coach

  • Innovation, process improvement, business operations strategy

  • Employee engagement, employee listening and surveying

  • Talent acquisition, talent management, workforce planning

  • Business operations, HR operations, service delivery, shared services

  • Vendor selection and vendor management

  • Training and development, education and learning, curriculum development

  • Employee, executive and physician practice onboarding

  • Performance management, performance reviews, goal setting

  • Total rewards, compensation and pay planning

  • Board reporting preparation and presentation

  • HR data and analytics

  • HRIS, human capital management systems, ERP enterprise resource planning - Infor, Workday

  • Project management and delivery - MS Project, Agile, Design Thinking trained

  • Diversity, equity, inclusion, belonging

  • Service center management

  • Enterprise sales, business development

  • Retail operations and ecommerce

  • Marketing, communications, events

  • Product management

  • Enterprise-wide technology implementations

    • Workday (x2), Infor, Salesforce (x3), Epic, ServiceNow (x2), Blackboard

  • Sales enablement and customer success

  • Mergers, acquisitions, outsourcing, restructuring and reorganizations

  • Managing budgets $1M+ operating expense and $1B+ revenue

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Primary industries of expertise:

  • Media, Advertising, Publishing, Communications, Marketing, Public Relations

  • Higher Education, Learning Management, Edtech

  • Health Care, Hospital Systems, Physician Practice, Telehealth

HumAIn Resources

Founder, President, Lead Consultant
March 2024 to present

Leading an HR and operations network of experts providing aid in human capital management and operations improvement, working with scaling start-ups, as well as global Fortune 500 clients. Some project examples have included:

  • Counseling leaders implementing AI with back to basics, human-centered change management protocols and fundamental leadership skills

  • Designing and implementing comprehensive talent management programs including talent acquisition, learning and development, performance management, leadership development and succession planning

  • Helping physician practice groups build morale and RVUs (relative value units, productivity and profit), by creating unified goals, training and communications, building engagement through group problem-solving sessions, employee surveys, and physician leadership coaching

  • Leading founders and entrepreneurs through the Hogan Assessments, providing coaching and operations decision support, to successfully lead and manage high growth businesses

  • Building systems and implementing tech to accelerate recruitment, hiring and onboarding for start ups experiencing explosive growth

  • Coaching CEOs and their executive teams to operational excellence through rigorous personal and professional development programs

Endeavor Health
formerly Edward-Elmhurst Health and NorthShore Health

System Vice President, People (HR) Strategy, Experience and Engagement
Oct 2022 to Feb 2024

System Director, Leadership Development and Employee Experience
Oct 2019 to Oct 2022

System Director, Talent Management
Oct 2017 to Oct 2019

System Director, Talent Acquisition
Mar 2014 to Oct 2017

Follett Higher Education Group

Vice President, Intellectual Property
Vice President, Development
April 2010 to March 2014


American Marketing and Publishing

Vice President of Sales and Marketing
and Director of Recruitment
July 2008 to April 2010

Tribune Company

Advertising Director, Chicago magazine
Aug 2004 to July 2008

Recruitment Division Director,  CareerBuilder/Chicago Tribune
Aug 2002 to Aug 2004

Recruitment Director,  Los Angeles Times, Human Resources
Sept 2000 to Aug 2002

National Recruitment Strategy and Diversity Director,  Tribune, Corp HR
Sept 1998 to Sept 2000

EDUCATION and CERTIFICATIONS

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, B.S. Communications

Hogan Assessments, certified coach

Mental Health First Aid, certified education