Tom Colwell

Sr. Director HR Shared Services eBay

HR Business Partner | Talent Management | Leadership Development Manager

Delivering excellence in Human Resources has been the foundation of my career over 20 years in fast-paced, progressive organizations.

My goal is to help individuals and organizations succeed, and I thrive on delivering meaningful results in the critical middle space: translating strategy into action that matters to the success of the business and the individual employees.

I work in a global environment across multiple functions to drive organizational effectiveness, employee engagement, build high performance leaders and teams, employee relations and coaching, metrics, diversity, addressing issues at a systems level, building and delivering local and global programs, leadership development, high potential pipelines and helping leaders build the individual and organizational capacity for innovation and change.

I am an open-minded, collaborative team member with a strong work ethic and demonstrated strengths as a trusted business partner and adviser to senior-level leaders and front-line employees and managers.

Specialties:
○ Sr. HR Business Partner & HR Manager
○ Learning & Development experience
○ Succession Planning & High Potential Development
○ Employee Engagement & Culture
○ Change Management
○ Talent Management
○ Workforce Planning
○ Performance Management
○ Program Management
○ Data & Metrics

Main Conference Day One, May 19th, 2020

3:15 PM Learnings From Centralizing Employee Relations

For nearly 10 years employee relations has been managed centrally from eBay's regional HR Service Centers. Join

this session to learn from eBay’s experience. This discussion will include:

• The benefits and challenges of centralizing ER work

• Things to consider when setting up a centralized ER function

• Utilizing technology in centralized ER, while maintaining high touch where needed

• How to effectively partner with HR Business partners, Security and other key partners

• How to utilize your team to flex with volume changes driven by acquisitions, RIF’s or other volume drivers

• How ER can create opportunities for career development within the SSC

• Where eBay plans to focus next to expand their reach and impact

Check out the incredible speaker line-up to see who will be joining Tom.

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