Alenda Durr, SPHR-SCP, CPC
Alenda is a dynamic HR professional with over 20 years of sound HR experience mixed with a solid formal education. As a trusted coach & advisor, she designs interventions to promote engagement, productivity and results, and has been deemed a valued strategic partner.
Alenda has extensive progressive leadership experience and has demonstrated expertise across the spectrum of HR. Recently, as a Sr. HR Business Partner at Ecolab, Alenda was responsible for leading and managing the people-management related agenda for six (6) Corporate Functions including the Finance, Legal, Global SH&E and RD&E functions. She worked with leadership to drive various change management projects including post-merger integration planning & rollout for new benefits programs, global job mapping, executive level talent review and enterprise-wide engagement surveying. She proudly shared the responsibility for functional goal attainment and target delivery for these and other HR interventions.
As an HR specialist for companies like Cushman & Wakefield, Nalco and the Chicago Transit Authority, Alenda has been responsible for full-cycle talent acquisition; planning, monitoring, and executing company HR compliance programs; streamlining policy and procedures for effective operations; writing employee handbooks and policy manuals; investigating internal issues and serving as the escalation POC; resolving complex employee relations matters; analyzing employee discipline, terminations and layoffs according to pertinent law and company policy; and, directing the company’s Diversity & Inclusion efforts.
Alenda avidly approaches her vocation as a champion of progress and transformation. She uses coaching, training course facilitation and deliberative issue resolution as tools to help build positive relationships with managers and employees while encouraging HR partnership on a strategic level.
Alenda is a dynamic HR professional with over 20 years of sound HR experience mixed with a solid formal education. As a trusted coach & advisor, she designs interventions to promote engagement, productivity and results, and has been deemed a valued strategic partner.
Alenda has extensive progressive leadership experience and has demonstrated expertise across the spectrum of HR. Recently, as a Sr. HR Business Partner at Ecolab, Alenda was responsible for leading and managing the people-management related agenda for six (6) Corporate Functions including the Finance, Legal, Global SH&E and RD&E functions. She worked with leadership to drive various change management projects including post-merger integration planning & rollout for new benefits programs, global job mapping, executive level talent review and enterprise-wide engagement surveying. She proudly shared the responsibility for functional goal attainment and target delivery for these and other HR interventions.
As an HR specialist for companies like Cushman & Wakefield, Nalco and the Chicago Transit Authority, Alenda has been responsible for full-cycle talent acquisition; planning, monitoring, and executing company HR compliance programs; streamlining policy and procedures for effective operations; writing employee handbooks and policy manuals; investigating internal issues and serving as the escalation POC; resolving complex employee relations matters; analyzing employee discipline, terminations and layoffs according to pertinent law and company policy; and, directing the company’s Diversity & Inclusion efforts.
Alenda avidly approaches her vocation as a champion of progress and transformation. She uses coaching, training course facilitation and deliberative issue resolution as tools to help build positive relationships with managers and employees while encouraging HR partnership on a strategic level.
