Leadership and Self Awareness
with Kathleen McComber, MA, SPHR, SHRM-SCP, CCP, CBP

VIRTUAL - LINK available in the confirmation/WILL BE EMAILED morning of meeting.

Ignorant bliss, no matter how enjoyable is still ignorant.  If you are in a position of leadership and don’t feel you have any blind spots, you are either very naïve or very arrogant.  All leaders have blind spots.  The question is what are you doing about them?  Although it is probably one of the least discussed leadership competencies, self-awareness is possibly one of the most valuable.  This session will explore the tools and resources for all leaders to access to be more effective.

Learning objectives:

• Learn to use tools of self-examination to better understand yourself and those you lead.
• Find a leadership style and how to use your self-identified style to be a better leader.
• Recognize the benefits of self-awareness brings to your role as a leader.

Kathleen is currently the President of The HeaRt Group, a human resource consulting firm, with expertise in organizational development, talent acquisition and management, employee engagement, performance leadership, compensation and benefits.  She is the former Associate Vice Chancellor of Human Resources at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Arkansas. Prior to that, she was Corporate Vice President of Human Resources at Edgewater Technology in Fayetteville, AR for five years, helping with the acquisition of 44 companies to form Staffmark Inc., later becoming Edgewater.  Prior to this position she held various executive human resources positions at Acxiom Corporation, Express Human Resources and M.M. Cohn.

In her last position, she was responsible for the human resource function in the UAMS Medical Center, which has over 6500 employees, as well as campus responsibility for the operation functions that includes compensation, HR analytics, recruitment, organizational development, employee relations, affirmative action, immigration, compliance, benefits, employee services, and performance management for 11,000 employees.

The HeaRt Group’s focus is to work with small to mid-sized business owners and executives to develop Human Resource practices best aligned with their business objectives and strategic plans.  The HeaRt Group provides common sense human resource advice by solving Human Resource challenges, handling Human Resource issues and partnering with clients to enhance their organization.

Ms. McComber has over 40 years’ experience in the human resource profession and has done extensive work in the areas of compensation, benefits, employee relations, performance leadership, diversity and organizational development 30 of those at the senior level. 

She is a member of the Central Arkansas Human Resource Association (CAHRA) and the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) for many years.  She has served on the CAHRA board of directors twice serving as Chair.  She has also served on the SHRM Board of Directors for seven years and held the top volunteer position as Chair in 1998.  She served four years on the Human Resource Certification Board and six years on the SHRM Foundation Board serving as chair in 2006. 

She holds a B.S. in Education from the University of Arkansas and a M.A. in Management from Webster University. She is on the faculty of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in the College of Public Health and Webster University teaching leadership and human resource classes at the graduate level. 

One hour of SHRM PDC & HRCI is approved.

WCASHRM is recognized by SHRM to offer Professional Development Credits (PDCs) for the SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP.

The use of this seal confirms that this activity has met HR Certification Institute’s® (HRCI®) criteria for recertification credit pre-approval.

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