Elizabeth Roche is a highly experienced Human Resources professional, and is a Senior Consultant with Baron Center, Inc, a San Diego County based training and consulting firm. Her experience has encompassed the spectrum from being an effective generalist to being a competent specialist in training. She is widely versed in all areas of Human Resources and demonstrated her expertise in all disciplines when she became certified as a \0x201CSenior Professional in Human Resources\0x201D in 1995. This lifetime designation is awarded by the international Society for Human Resource Management.

In addition to being quite experienced in all areas of HR (recruiting, safety, training, employee relations, benefits and compensation) she has a special expertise in the area of training. Elizabeth spent nearly a decade working as Director of Training for an agricultural trade association. During that time she developed and presented dozens of training modules. The modules concentrated on both supervisor and management skills; as well as training for others in the HR profession. Her work within the trade association also consisted of providing advisory services to member companies on a wide range of HR topics. Elizabeth was an invaluable source of information to the member companies and accurately assessed when an issue needed legal attention. Working hand-in-hand with labor attorneys, she has conducted many third-party investigations into harassment allegations.

In her last staff HR position Elizabeth was part of the senior management group of a start-up company experiencing 30% growth year over year. As the head of the HR function, she had responsibility for developing all company procedures, policies and processes that related to the employees spread out over a dozen states. During her tenure the company grew from 725 employees to over 2,000 while adding large manufacturing locations and consolidating small existing ones. She was instrumental in the strategic planning of the company as it met the challenges of rapid growth and expanded market share. Additionally, she spearheaded the defense of a number of government agency investigations and charges, as well as handling the successful management campaign against an organizing attempt by the Longshoreman’s Union in the state of Washington.

Elizabeth graduated from Occidental College in Los Angeles. She has continued to educate herself in the areas of her profession through seminars, conferences and extension classes. She is a member of several HR professional associations including the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM), Professionals in Human Resources (PIHRA), American Society for Training and Development (ASTD). Elizabeth has served on the Board of PIHRA as well as other volunteer leaderships positions.