Case Study: Greyhound

Case Study: Greyhound

Executives in Transition: Nothing But the Best for Greyhound’s Best and Brightest When Greyhound decided to move many of its shared service functions to its parent company, even top-level employees were not immune to the layoffs. Knowing that these valued executives would face a tough job market, Rhonda MacAndrew, Greyhound’s senior vice president, human resources, wanted to be sure they had every opportunity to successfully transition into new jobs. “I […]

Case Study: Building Materials Corporation

Case Study: Building Materials Corporation

  The Right Candidate at the Right Time to Lead BMC Dallas/Fort Worth In the Western U.S., the building supply and materials market was booming in late 2012—especially in Texas, where the economy had taken less of a hit than the rest of the nation. The Boise-based building supply and service company BMC was making a strong comeback after rebuilding from a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in 2010 and transitioning from public […]

Case Study: Reddy Ice

Case Study: Reddy Ice

Fast-Turnaround Search Fills Two Highly Strategic Roles at Reddy Ice Producing about 18,000 tons of ice daily for consumers and businesses, Reddy Ice is implementing company-wide transformation designed to firmly secure its position as the largest manufacturer and distributor of packaged ice products in the United States. As part of this organizational makeover, Angie Wallander, chief administrative officer for Reddy Ice, had two newly created jobs to fill: vice president, […]

Case Study: Natural Gas Partners

Case Study: Natural Gas Partners

Pearson Partners finds “perfect” candidate for “impossible” executive search As a $7.3 billion family of private equity funds that invests in energy companies, Natural Gas Partners does everything possible to ensure the success of the companies it sponsors. Because assisting those companies with risk management and environmental policies makes good business sense, in 2010 Natural Gas Partners created a new position to take on the task: Director of Portfolio and […]

Case Study: LSG Sky Chefs

Case Study: LSG Sky Chefs

A Unique Company With a Unique Hiring Challenge After getting by with a procurement management role that had been consolidated with another function, LSG Sky Chefs had grown to need a full-time vice president of procurement. Owned by the German company Lufthansa, LSG Sky Chefs is an internationally recognized in-flight services provider and airline catering company. “Filling this job was tricky, as we are in a space that isn’t really […]

The 2020 Workplace: How Innovative Companies Attract, Develop and Keep Tomorrow’s Employees Today

  On June 19, 2012, Pearson Partners hosted the bimonthly Pearson Partners HR Roundtable, a networking and knowledge-sharing group of senior human resources executives in the North Texas area. Our guest speaker was Kristi Erickson, a partner with PeopleResults, a Human Capital consultancy specializing in the areas of talent, change, organization and communications. Below is a summary of Erickson’s presentation, which was based on the best-selling book, “The 2020 Workplace,” […]