Jennifer Marszalek

Experience

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  Raise The Bar

  People Advisor

  Aug 2024 - Present

  Level up your managers​ and help your team reach its full potential. We empower organizations & managers with the tools, skills, and training to unlock the potential of their teams.

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  Revolution Cannabis

  Chief People Officer

  Aug 2021 - May 2024

  Revolution is a craft cannabis company. We lead the cannabis industry through scientific discovery and continuous innovation. As we grow to serve new communities, we bring our meticulous cultivation and operating standards to every new market and product we release. We love the cannabis plant and the cannabis industry. We strive to advance this industry, while maintaining its soul and honoring the complex history of this amazing plant. Our team is comprised of passionate cannabis cultivation, public health, and research professionals united by a desire to cultivate health and happiness through the science of cannabis. Revolution’s core values permeate every facet of operations spanning cultivation, breeding, production, packaging, labeling, community outreach, and more.

  • Revolution is an award winning cannabis MSO operating in IL, AR, MD, MO and FL. Reporting to the CEO, I lead the People function across corporate, dispensaries and cultivation operations.
  • Accomplishments include: partnered with the board on CEO search and executive compensation framework, partnered with the Board and CEO to rebuild and reorganize company-wide leadership team, M&A integrations and divestitures, streamlined payroll structure and benefits offering for multi-entity business, developed and rolled out updated corporate mission and core values, built HR operational infrastructure and fully reworked HR processes and programs and to a strong, strategic and responsive HR team and function.
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  Home Chef

  VP, People (Fractional)

  Oct 2020 - Jul 2021

  The Home Chef team is a unique mix of chefs, creators, entrepreneurs, and trailblazers. By combining our diverse backgrounds, distinct talents, and consistent willingness to support one another, we’re building new ways to navigate the booming meal kit industry. Our team runs on a spirit of autonomy, trust, and inclusion that allows for quick decisions and inventive thinking. Our organic growth is supported by our employee’s constant eagerness to suggest and try new things. It’s the same energy, combined with our customer-first mentality, that landed us Built in Chicago’s Startup of the Year Moxie award. We’re growing quickly, across all departments, locations, and levels. Our extraordinary management team is simultaneously humble and inspiring, taking cues from our CEO who recently was honored as EY’s Entrepreneur of the Year. We encourage our employees to go as far as their ambitions take them while we equally strive to create a fun work environment. We know that fun at work doesn’t always mean a ping pong table - it can mean collaboration, communication, and creating new ideas and projects with your colleagues. If you’re ready to be part of the action, we’re ready to connect with you. There are no limits to where we can go together.

  • Provided HR leadership managing talent acquisition, total rewards, learning & development, DEI, HRBPs and People Ops.
  • Accomplishments include: DEI roadmap and compensation analysis and improving pipeline and sourcing for hourly employees and rebuilding total rewards team and function.
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  Relativity

  Human Resource Consultant (Fractional)

  Sep 2019 - Apr 2020

  At Relativity, we make software to help users organize data, discover the truth, and act on it. Our SaaS product, RelativityOne, manages large volumes of data and quickly identifies key issues during litigation and internal investigations. We have more than 300,000 users in approximately 40 countries serving thousands of organizations globally primarily in legal, financial services and government sectors, including the U.S. Department of Justice and 198 of the Am Law 200.

  • Provided HR leadership support and manage total rewards program development and projects.
  • Accomplishments include: rollout of global discretionary/unlimited time off program: US, Poland, UK, Australia, Hong Kong, US-based FLSA exemption audit and transitions, redesigned global holiday pay incentive programs and global rollout of Headspace app and coordinated employee benefits and mental health resources at the beginning of the COVID pandemic.
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  Working Credit NFP

  Board Member

  Mar 2019 - Nov 2020

  Working Credit is a national nonprofit, based in Chicago, working at the intersection of racial and economic justice to promote credit equity in predominantly low-income communities of color. Our mission is to partner with individuals and communities to interrupt structural racism by providing credit-building education, one-on-one counseling, and access to the financial products people need to thrive. We enact our mission through direct services, community engagement, and research & advocacy.

  • National nonprofit organization helping workers build household financial strength by establishing and then reaping the benefits of good credit through an employee benefit combining credit building education, one-on-one counseling, and access to financial products. On the board, I served as a business partner and subject matter expert for their employer-based offering.
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  Forbes Human Resources Council

  Official Member

  Mar 2017 - Feb 2023

  Forbes Human Resources Council is a vetted professional networking community for senior-level human resources executives across all industries. Members get exclusive opportunities to build relationships with successful leaders, grow through exclusive live virtual events, and publish bylined articles and expertise on Forbes.comForbes Human Resources Council is known for its diversity of perspectives and the members' willingness to give as much as they gain. The generosity and depth of insight in the community makes it an indispensible resource for every coach.Forbes Human Resources Council is part of the Forbes Councils network—a collective of vetted professional networking communities for senior executives and business owners in a variety of industries. Forbes Councils was created in partnership with Forbes.com by the expert community builders who founded Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC). Our mission is to connect exceptional business owners and senior executives with people and resources to help them thrive. All Forbes Councils are grouped by industry, so members can make meaningful connections. Our communities include: Forbes Agency Council, Forbes Business Council, Forbes Business Development Council, Forbes Coaches Council, Forbes Communications Council, Forbes Finance Council, Forbes Human Resources Council, Forbes Non-Profit Council, and Forbes Technology Council.Behind each of the world’s most successful business owners and executives is a strong community of support. Find yours at Forbes Human Resources Council today: forbeshrcouncil.com

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  Havas

  Chief Talent Officer

  Apr 2016 - Aug 2019

  Havas Creative Network is part of Havas, one of the world's largest communications groups. We make a meaningful difference to brands, businesses and people. We’re building what we believe an innovative network should be: a connected ecosystem of 73 global multi-disciplinary Villages, united under one leadership, and with one P&L. Rather than a one-size fits all model, our unique ‘Village’ model allows us to build dynamic teams of specialists that can be reconfigured as clients’ needs change This approach allows us to bring undiluted specialist strength and deliver a custom solution built to suit your business, while also maintaining a consistent, client-focused approach with the flexibility to put people on the ground in markets around the world. Our ownership by entertainment giant Vivendi gives our clients access to entertainment and culture. Where other networks replicate skillsets, our partners are music labels, gaming companies, live event organisers, TV networks, film studios and video distribution platforms.

  • Led talent function for diverse group of creative, media, digital and experiential marketing agencies with over 650 staff members in Chicago, Atlanta, New York and Baltimore; reporting to the Chairman & CEO for Havas Creative US. Functional responsibility for employee relations, talent and performance management, HRIS implementation, talent acquisition, learning and development, DEI and compensation as well as benefits and payroll support.
  • Accomplishments include: created HRBP model supporting business leaders and team members, rolled out new agency core values and served as US lead on global Workday HRIS implementation for functional design, change management, payroll integration and data migration streams on core HR, compensation, talent and recruiting modules
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  GrubHub

  Vice President Human Resources

  Jun 2014 - Apr 2016

  Grubhub is a leading food-ordering and delivery marketplace on a mission to empower everyday convenience and champion merchants from coast to coast.Grubhub is part of Just Eat Takeaway.com, a global online food delivery marketplace, featuring numerous merchants in over 4,000 U.S. cities. Restaurants, grocery, and local merchants are the core of our offering—and the heart of the communities we serve. Our mission is to strengthen our roots, deepen our connections, and increase our positive impact. We strive to help merchants grow their businesses and experiment with new concepts. Our community is powered by thousands of drivers around the country. We provide drivers with flexible opportunities to work and earn on their own schedules—and keep 100% of the tips they earn while they deliver.Together with our merchants and drivers, we give customers more options for delivery, whether it’s their go-to meal from their favorite local restaurant, or a craving to discover something new. Through the Grubhub Community Fund, we have given more than $70 million to charitable organizations and communities nationwide since 2020. Focusing on supporting independent restaurants, helping close the hunger gap, and creating more opportunities for people in the hospitality industry, we forge nationwide partnerships that strengthen our competitiveness in the marketplace, attract and retain the best talent, and show customers how we support the communities they live in.Since we opened our doors in Chicago in 2004, Grubhub has been opening doors all across the country. With thousands of merchants nationwide, Grubhub delivers the best local, authentic cuisine right to diners’ doors—and new customers and billions in revenue to local businesses. And that helps open even more doors. Bakery doors in Hyde Park. Jibarito joint doors in Queens. And doors of opportunity all across the country.Grubhub. Delivering joy. Guaranteed.

  • Reporting to the President/CFO, I led the HR team at GrubHub including; performance and talent management, employee relations, benefits strategy, talent acquisition, payroll, compensation, HR diligence, cultural integration and benefits/payroll integration for acquisitions
  • Accomplishments include: created HR Business Partner model supporting employees across 1300+ corporate and field operations in 20 states, led HR diligence and people integration for acquisitions of DiningIn, Restaurants on the Run and Delivered Dish restaurant delivery service organizations with 400+ employees and 2500+ independent contractors, created human resource operational infrastructure to support aggressive growth including a payroll entity change, ACA reporting, benefits program redesign and framework for compensation and annual merit planning and reporting, developed and implemented human resource solutions and programs including creation of a new, unlimited, paid time off program and leave of absence processes
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  SurePayroll

  Director of Human Resources

  Jun 2010 - Jun 2014

  From start-up to scale-up, SurePayroll online payroll, tax management, HR and benefits solutions give small business and household employers the freedom to succeed. Start or advance your career at SurePayroll. SurePayroll offers market-leading benefits, competitive total compensation, an entrepreneurial culture, and the stability that comes with being a Paychex company since 2011. Industry experts widely recognize SurePayroll as the top choice for online payroll services, thanks to our unique solution set that simplifies and saves time on important back-office operations. We serve a large—and growing—customer base featuring small and micro business owners, household employers, and CPAs and bookkeepers. From our humble beginnings in 2000 as the first software-as-a-service payroll company, the SurePayroll portfolio has expanded to feature workers' compensation, 401(k) plans, health insurance, and HR services. If you like working with knowledgeable, supportive, and proactive colleagues, and being part of a team that’s delivered consecutive years of double-digit growth, make SurePayroll your next career stop. Learn more at SurePayroll.com

  • Reporting to the president, I led the human resource function with responsibility for talent acquisition, employee relations, organizational and leadership development, succession planning, performance management and training
  • Accomplishments include: growing headcount by over 65%, developed employment branding strategy, created technical recruiting program to improve talent pipeline, reduce turnover and support transition to agile environment, developed structured interview processes to improve hiring effectiveness for inside sales and contact center roles and grew employee engagement and retention while lowering turnover.
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  Room & Board

  Various HR Roles

  Jun 1997 - Jul 2009

  Our collaborative spirit leaves little room for bureaucracy and cumbersome rules. Instead, we keep it simple, take accountability, solve problems and ultimately do the right thing. We believe in each other. Room & Board is a privately held, national retailer of modern home furnishings based in Minneapolis, Minnesota with locations across the country. Since 1980, we’ve been providing extraordinary experiences for our customers as we help them create homes they love. We create exclusive contemporary designs and believe expertly crafted American-made furniture offers the best value in terms of quality, design longevity and environmental sustainability. We seamlessly serve our customers through 19 stores, a robust e-commerce site, Business Interiors channel and Customer Care support. Join us and love what you do. It makes for a great day at work.