Holly Bonnicksen-Jones is a senior human resources leader with over 20 years of strategic and tactical experience, and a consistent record of delivering results. She is highly skilled at identifying opportunities for enhanced efficiency and coalescing teams to deliver on business goals. She has successfully managed organization-wide initiatives, engaged talent, coached leaders, managed sensitive employee relations issues, built teams, and served as a trainer and facilitator.

Prior to joining MRA, Holly served as Vice President of Human Resources for a local health care provider. She has demonstrated HR leadership and provided hands-on assistance to companies ranging in size from 100 to 1200 employees, and in industries as diverse as financial services, insurance, and health care.

Holly’s many accomplishments include that she has:

Reengineered recruitment and onboarding strategies, decreasing time-to-fill rate by 10 days and cutting turnover in half for key entry level positions.
Increased employee productivity through the creation and implementation of management development plans.
Restructured pay plans and developed/implemented pay administration and job analysis programs resulting in significantly reduced turnover of executives.
Developed a departmental balanced scorecard and driven key measures that assist leadership in decision making.
Led culture branding initiatives, identified company values, and implemented communication plans that enabled the continuity of culture during expansion and growth.
Led loss prevention activities that reduced workers compensation claims, injuries, and mod rate from almost 2.0 to .85. She has identified and launched organization-wide risk management efforts.

Education

Holly received her bachelor’s degree in economics and political science and her master’s in public policy and administration from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She has earned certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR). Holly also has served as an instructor for the Cardinal Stritch University MBA program and the University of Wisconsin-Madison Small Business Development Center.