Doug Duncan of Your HR Solutions, Inc and VIA Global has 30 years of experience in business planning and human resources working for small, medium, and large companies and organizations. His clients included a number of small to mid-sized companies in a wide variety of industries including coffee service and beverage, commercial and residential painting, roofing, health care, architecture, consulting services, mortgage brokerage, restaurant, construction, insurance, supermarket, and plumbing; in both manufacturing and service businesses. He has also consulted for large best-in-class companies such as a $6 billion dollar supermarket organization as well as a large mid-west insurance company in helping to build their strategic and human resource systems.

What distinguishes the Your HR Solutions approach is the ability to link the business needs of the organization with practical systems to hire, train and keep employees. The result is an integrated system that is more efficient and effective in reducing turnover and improving overall productivity. 

Over the last few years his work has been focused on small and mid-sized companies in helping these business owners innovate their organizations and inspire their people. He brings the learning from these companies in a straightforward and easy to understand manner. 

Credentials and Experience:

Wakefern Food Corp.  (18 years)  (Supermarket Wholesale - Retail)                                               

Sr. Management responsibilities in  Planning and Human Resources

            * Strategic Planning with the Board and corporate management

* Facilitating Business Plans with 45 Supermarket Companies

            * Associate Survey and Action Planning

            * Computer Based Training -  multi-media training programs

* Organizational Development and Family Succession Planning

            * Executive and Managerial Development Programs

            * Performance Planning and Appraisal Process

            * Retail Management Assessment Programs

            * Career Planning Programs            

* Manpower Planning and Recruiting,

* Employee Relations

            * Personnel Administration

            * Orientation Program

            * Leaders in Training Management Development Program

* Interviewing Skills workshop

Other Responsibilities at Wakefern

•   General Manager, International Sales Division - grew sales from $6 million to $11 million in 3 years

Previous Employment:

Leslie Kavanagh, Inc. - Executive Search (Recruiting)    

Pellon Corporation - Sales / Marketing Manager  (Textiles)

Lindar Manufacturing - Director of Sales and Marketing (Manufacturing)

W.T. Grant Company - Buyer /  Store Management  (Retailer)

 

Education:

            B.A.    Political Science, Earlham College, Richmond, Ind.   1968

            M.S.    Industrial Relations and Human Resources

                        Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, 1991   

 

Other Affiliations:

·         President – School of Management and Labor Relations Alumni Association

·         Adjunct Professor - College of New Jersey, Ewing Township, NJ -  Teaching Senior level Human Resource Management courses     

·         Institute for Arts and Humanities Education -  member of Board of Directors -  a non-profit organization promoting innovative approaches to teaching arts and humanities to talented, at-risk young people and their families.

·         Member of Society of Human Resource Management

 

 

 

  

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