Kathleen Grace, MBA, CCP

Kathleen Grace has over 17 years experience in the areas of organizational assessment/development, workload and staffing analysis, classification and compensation, reward and recognition programs, and training and development. She has provided organizational change, human resources and management consulting services to a wide range of public-sector organizations, public utilities, water and special districts and to large Fortune 500 organizations. Ms. Grace has extensive experience in the development and management of complex multi-disciplinary project teams.

Relevant Experience:

  • President, Grace Consulting
  • Adjunct Faculty - CSU, Sacramento, Organizational Behavior Department, College of Business
  • Principal Consultant/Project Manager, CPS Human Resources Services
  • Principal Consultant - Price Waterhouse LLP
  • Senior Human Resources Specialist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
  • Senior Consultant - Applied Research Consultants, Inc.
  • Training Program Specialist - CA Department of Education
  • Training Officer - Yolo County Social Services Department
  • Employee Representative - SEIU/Butte County Employees Association

Experience Highlights:

  • As president of Grace Consulting, a woman-owned sole proprietorship, Ms. Grace has developed a network of independent consulting professionals with a breadth and depth of skills that has enabled the company to offer top quality services at an affordable price. She is currently conducting a market study for an Executive position for a public water district in the bay area and recently completed an organizational assessment, classification and total compensation study for the Lake Hemet Municipal Water District. Other recent studies include serving as project evaluator for a grant-funded project for the Sacramento City Unified School District, and a statewide total compensation and staffing study for the City of Long Beach as subcontractor to CPS Human Resources Services.
  • At CSU, Sacramento, Ms. Grace develops and delivers curriculum on a variety of subjects for the Department of Organizational Behavior in the College of Business, including undergraduate and graduate courses on organizational behavior and development, leadership, strategic compensation, and human resources concepts, theories and applications utilizing a variety of teaching methodologies to enable learning and retention processes.
  • While working for CPS Human Resources Services and Applied Research Consultants, Inc., Ms. Grace conducted and/or managed a large number of workload and staffing studies, organizational assessments, process re-engineering, job re-design, and change integration projects for state and local government organizations within California, including the California Contractors License Board, the Sacramento Environmental Management Department, the City of Roseville Environmental Utility Department, the City and County of San Francisco and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
  • While working for Price Waterhouse LLP, Ms. Grace led and participated in a several complex change initiatives projects relative to the integration of enterprise-wide automated systems (SAP and custom-designed) for Fortune 500 and large public-sector organizations. Project activities included: business process re-engineering, change readiness assessments, job redesign, staffing capability assessments, development of performance measurement systems, training and documentation design, development, and presentation and organizational assessments for issue identification and resolution.
  • As training program specialist at the CA Department of Education and Training Specialist for the Yolo County, Ms. Grace developed and conducted a variety of supervisory and employee training programs. Topics included: Effective Employee Selection Techniques, Conflict Resolution, Change Management, Stress Management Dealing with Difficult People, and appropriate application of a wide variety of regulatory programs.

Education:

  • MBA (with honors), Business Administration, California State University Sacramento, 1996 with course work in Organizational Behavior and Personnel Management
  • BS (with honors), Business Administration, HR Concentration, CSU Sacramento, 1989 with coursework in organizational behavior, human resources management, systems analysis, and production and operations

Publications:

  • Masters Project: Compliance Guide on the Americans with Disabilities Act
  • Compliance Guide for the Fair Labor Standards Act

Licenses and Certifications:

  • Certified Compensation Professional - World at Work (formerly American Compensation Association
  • Top Security Clearance (1992) Department of Defense

Affiliations:

  • Member - World at Work (American Compensation Association)
  • Chair - Career Services Committee and member, Sacramento Area Human Resources Association
  • Member - Society of Human Resources Management
  • Member - Sacramento Hispanic Chamber of Commerce
  • Vice Chair - Friends of Meals On Wheels, Advisory Committee to Sacramento County Adult Services Nutrition Program
  • Member Bay Area Compensation Association

  

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