Human Resource Executive Magazine Selects Outsell’s Catherine Decker as a “2016 HR Rising Star”
Award honors top human resource executives across the country
Outsell announced today that Human Resource Executive magazine has selected Outsell Director of Human Resources Catherine Decker as one of its five 2016 HR Rising Stars. This is the magazine’s 11th year presenting this award, which honors the country’s top human resource professionals leading change and innovation across various industries. Winners were featured in the May issue of the magazine “HR’s Rising Stars.”
This award recognizes senior HR professionals who have demonstrated leadership, the ability to successfully launch significant HR initiatives and programs, and the ability to manage major HR-related tasks.
At Outsell, Catherine launched several new HR programs and processes that contributed to Outsell’s positive team culture and improved the company’s bottom line. Catherine instituted Stay Interviews, to not only increase retention but to help employee’s problem solve and create another method for employee feedback to reach senior management. She also replaced a generous PTO policy with an innovative Unlimited PTO policy which further acknowledged the high regard, appreciation, and trust the company places in its associates. Catherine brought recruiting in-house and rolled out a new Human Resource Information System (HRIS) across the organization which is making HR processes more efficient for all associates. Lastly, Catherine lends her expertise to the Outsell Leadership Team, the Compensation Sub-Committee with Outsell’s board members and the Outsell Caring Committee. Outsell has doubled its number of associates and expanded from having associates in one state to as many as 10 states during her tenure. Outsell is actively recruiting new associates across the organization. A full list of open positions may be found here https://www.outsell.com/careers/.
“On behalf of all the associates at Outsell, I would like to congratulate Catherine on this award and acknowledge her outstanding leadership in this role,” said Matt Hanley, CFO of Outsell. “Catherine believes in a progressive HR environment and developed many new programs that have proven to be very well received among Outsell employees and management.”
“As a growing company with a maturing workforce at Outsell, I am committed to working closely with senior management and associates to develop programs that support our culture and business goals,” said Decker. “I am honored to receive this award from Human Resource Executive magazine and thrilled to be recognized among the other inspiring HR professionals.”
About HR 2016 Rising Stars
Judges for this year’s contest include Charlie Tharp, chief executive officer for the Center on Executive Compensation, a division of the HR Policy Association, and former senior vice president of human resources for Bristol-Myers Squibb Co.; Michele Darling, president of Michele Darling and Associates in Mississauga, Ontario, and former executive vice president of corporate governance and human resources for Prudential Insurance Co.; Gregory Hessel, senior client partner with the human resources practice and managing director of global client development at Korn/Ferry International’s Dallas offices; and Kristen B. Frasch, managing editor of Human Resource Executive® magazine. To read stories on past winners and learn more about the award, please visit HREOnline™ HR’s Rising Stars.