Leslie Elliott Mawhorter has a passion for serving others and is an experienced human resource professional with a multi-faceted background in health benefits, compensation, communications, and marketing. She has deep knowledge in directing all HR functions, including recruiting, employee relations, policy design, and change management and has a proven record of leveraging her cross-functional leadership skills to drive strategic initiatives to maintain a harmonious and positive work environment.

Leslie is in charge of a 7-person team dedicated to managing the entire benefits system across all U.S. offices for a $2B global company with 6,000 employees. She provides strategic leadership by focusing on controlling compensation and benefits costs while increasing ROI given changes in the market, demographics, and government mandates. Led the consolidation of benefit functions nationwide to aid in ACA compliance. She is accountable for 23 benefit plans, eight 401k plans, and multiple pension plans in addition to 12 different unions and holds full budget responsibility.