With over 20 years of increasingly broad HR Management experience, Jill has trained and coached hundreds of supervisors, managers, and executives in basic and complex employment skills and techniques to decrease legal exposure, and increase employee relations and productivity.

Jill specializes in management and employee relations, investigating and resolving discrimination claims, executive and management level hiring and optimum performance systems, leadership skills training, and in facilitating consensus and organizational leadership initiatives with boards of directors for non-profit organizations. She also serves as an expert consultant to law firms engaged in employment litigation.

Prior to co-founding TPO, Jill was employed by the Pebble Beach Company from 1980 through 1988. She formed the Human Resources Department for this internationally renowned destination resort, where she was the Corporate Director of HR for over 1600 employees.

Jill earned her national Senior Professional of Human Resources (SPHR) certification in 1993 by passing a rigorous examination demonstrating competencies in both theoretical and practical experience of the considerable body of knowledge in the field of HR. After completing two successful re-certifications (two three-year cycles), she was recognized as a certified professional for life in March of 1999. She served as the lead instructor from 1994 to 2001 for the SHRM Learning System HRCI Certification Institute course through Chapman University.

Jill is an Advisory Committee member of the Central Coast Human Resources Association (a local chapter of SHRM national). CCHRA achieved its first ever “Superior Merit Award” by SHRM in the Chapter’s 20-year history for both years under her leadership as President. Prior to being President, she served on the CCHRA board since 1996 as Government Affairs Director.

She is a member of the Leadership Morgan Hill Board of Directors, and is a graduate of Leadership Morgan Hill class of 2004.

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