Adonia Everett

I've been in the human resources space for about 4-5 years, though I transitioned from operations management where I spent 8-10 years. Right out of undergrad, I started at Pilot Flying J as what I call a fixer. I would go to stores that were struggling with metrics or KPIs, retrain staff, implement new processes, and once the store became successful, I'd move on to another store. I did that for 3 or 4 years across a total of 10 stores. After that, I worked in the construction space doing similar work but with travel, training electricians, construction workers, and team leads on build-outs and restructuring in retail locations like tearing down Sears, Toys R Us, and Babies R Us. During the pandemic, I realized that the part of the job I liked most was the onboarding, giving people knowledge about their benefits, up-training, and developing people. I didn't like the production part or meeting those numbers and metrics. So I enrolled in my master's for Human Resource Management to pivot into what I truly enjoyed. After getting my master's, I worked as a project analyst for a while until I landed my current position as a Human Resource Business Partner in November 2024. This was the first job that actually gave me an opportunity to use my degree in its full capacity without having to do operations, so I strictly do HR now. My main area is people leadership, people management, and policy development. I enforce the policies and I write the policies, working with production to ensure that our hourly workforce has a successful employee experience.