HR-Arm 
Phone: 630-778-1231   Fax 630-281-2559
 
We're a team of experienced management, human resource, organizational behavior/development professionals with Fortune 500, mid-market, and successful start-up experiences.  We also provide expertise to service the needs and constraints of not-for-profit organizations.
Jeannette Swist, MSMOB, CMC, SPHR, RODP

Founder and Principal of HR-Arm with 25 years experience in management, human resources, adult learning, and organizational behavior/development. She has done extensive nationwide & international travel. Her experience lends itself to understanding issues of human diversity and cultural differences. Many organizations have benefited from her experience as a consultant, writer and trainer.  

On a personal level, she is a native of Chicago with humble beginnings in the Back of the Yards community, a south-side working-class immigrant neighborhood. Jeannette wrote a book on the history of this neighborhood with Arcadia Publishing. 

In the educational sector, she has worked over 16 years as adjunct faculty in the College of Management and Business and Applied Behavioral Science program at National-Louis University in both their undergraduate and graduate accelerated, experiential-based program for working adults.

Before forming Applied Resource Management in 1990, Jeannette started up and built a human resource consulting function from the ground floor for two organizations. Initially as a Manager, Management Consulting Division of The Management Association of Illinois (formerly MIMA), servicing nearly 2,000 member companies in Northern Illinois, Indiana, and nationwide affiliate associations. Secondly, as a Regional Consulting Manager with RMS McGladrey (formerly McGladrey & Pullen) a large nationwide accounting, tax, and consulting firm Jeannette expanded the Executive Search practice and built a HR Generalist Consulting function in which she provided a variety of human resource consulting to client companies.

Prior to working in the consulting profession, she worked several years in human resource management with Draper & Kramer, Inc., a closely-held, nationwide, diversified real estate/mortgage banking firm.

Education:
Master of Science degree in Management and Organizational Behavior from George Williams College, under the direction of Dr. Peter F. Sorensen, Jr., the program is now housed at Benedictine University. The MSMOB degree emphasized the human element of management with origins in humanism and the applied behavioral sciences in all major facets of the curriculum.

Bachelor of Arts degree in Sociology from Roosevelt University.

Advanced coursework in development, design, delivery/facilitation of training programs to adult learners, organizational development intervention techniques, career counseling, and managerial/leadership assessment centers through the American Management Association, NTL, Organizational Development Network,Wilson Learning, and Vangent.

Certifications include:
Vangent Inspire, Leadership and Organizational Development Certificate
Campbell Leadership Index (CLI)
System for Testing and Evaluation of Potential (LH-STEP)

CMC Certified Management Consultant,Institute of Management Consultants

SPHR Senior Professional,Human Resources,Society for Human Resource Management

RODP Registered Organization Development Professional,O.D. Institute

Volunteer Leadership:
O.D. Institute
Jeannette chaired the 35th & 36th Annual Information Exchange

(SHRM) the Society for Human Resource Management 
Past Vice Chair of the National Research Committee. In addition to Vice Chair, she worked several years with the Research committee serving as Chair of recruitment and selection, marketing, SHRM Book Award, CCH,Inc/SHRM Research Project, Innovative Practices award, and as Committee Secretary.

Served on the SHRM Consultants Forum Board of Governors

At the SHRM chapter level, served as Survey Director and Chair of the Student Chapter for the Human Resource Association of Greater Oak Brook. Jeannette was President of the George Williams College SHRM Chapter, where she led the chapter in receiving a Superior Chapter Merit Award.

IMC
Jeannette served as Treasurer on the Board of Directors for the Chicago chapter of the Institute for Management Consultants (IMC).

Memberships include: 
SHRM Society of Human Resource Management
IMC Institute for Management Consultants
O.D.Institute (Organization Development)


What's behind the CMC?

The CMC® designation is the Gold Standard that executives should take into account when selecting a management consultant. Recognized in 46 nations across the globe including the United States, United Kingdom, Germany, Canada, China, and many others, CMCs are recognized as experts in their profession; the Mark represents their achieving highest standards of excellence and ethical practices as a professional consultant.

The earning of the CMC® by a management consultant is no trivial matter; it can be likened to an attorney passing the Bar examination, an accountant receiving a CPA, or an engineer obtaining their PE license. A candidate must submit to the most rigorous vetting process in the profession that includes receiving satisfaction surveys from clients, taking in-depth examinations covering consulting competencies and ethics, and sitting for a panel interview by fellow CMCs. 


Therefore, when you hire a CMC® you can be confident that the consultant who has earned the CMC® designation has a history of excellent performance in delivering results to clients; has met world-class standards of competence, ethics, and client satisfaction; and has maintained this level of professionalism through education and periodic certification renewal. Less than 1% of all consultants worldwide have achieved this level of excellence.

For more information on the Institute of Management Consultants USA or the CMC®, visit IMC USA's website  http://www.imcusa.org.



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