Join America Back to Work, a weekly podcast, video, and blog series that covers timely and relevant topics affecting the labor market and workforce with industry experts. The series includes recruiting, hiring, retention, employee satisfaction, customer service, background screenings, and more.
America Back to Work: Tiffany Montgomery, Saul Ewing
Transforming HR Into a Strategic Business Partner
In this episode of America Back to Work, Arnette Heintze welcomes Tiffany Montgomery, director of HR at Saul Ewing. With more than 20 years of experience in HR, Tiffany delves into the indispensable role of HR in organizations, stressing the importance of connectivity across departments and the strategic partnership with leadership.
Key Topics
- The role of HR in organizations. Tiffany highlights that every department needs HR due to its people-related demands—HR’s ability to provide essential intelligence to leadership and organize departments strategically.
- Tools and systems. The importance of HR analytics and Human Resources Information Systems (HRIS) in aiding decision-making. Using staffing metrics to evaluate hiring needs and ensuring that workload and resource allocation are considered.
- HR as a strategic business partner. The need for HR professionals to develop skills in negotiation, adaptability, and in-depth organizational knowledge. Emphasizing the critical evaluation of hiring needs to ensure employees have meaningful work.
- Fair Credit Reporting Act compliance. The necessity for clear consent and authorization to ensure compliance with the FCRA standards. The growing significance of mobile devices for electronic consent and signature.
America Back to Work: Watch the Video Now
America Back to Work: Listen to the Podcast Now
About America Back to Work
Subscribe to America Back to Work in your favorite podcast player so you don’t miss an episode. You can do that by clicking here.
S2Verify is one of the leading, privately held, pre-employment background screening companies in the United States.
Arnette Heintze is co-founder and chief strategy officer at S2Verify. Before establishing S2Verify, Arnette spent more than three decades working at the highest levels of federal, state, and local law enforcement.
He served more than 20 years in the United States Secret Service as a special agent and senior executive,—oØ where he planned, designed, and implemented security strategies to protect U.S. Presidents, world leaders, events of national significance, and our nation’s most sensitive assets, including financial infrastructure.
After retiring from the Secret Service, Arnette focused on building the growth and performance of innovative start-ups and SMBs. In 2004, he established Hillard Heintze, a globally recognized strategic security risk management and investigations firm.
In 2009, along with Bill Whitford and Jim Zimbardi, Arnette established S2 Verify with an approach and methodology that delivers fast, accurate, compliant, and affordable background screening insights crucial to better managing insider risks, threats, and vulnerabilities.