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Kelly Amos

Human Resources Business Partner, Amivie

Tampa, FL

1Award received

Certifications · Degrees · Memberships

Degree Associate Degree (2001) Cert SPHR (Senior Professional of Human Resources) Cert HR Business Partner Certification

Her Story

About Kelly

In my current role, my main focus is change management and supporting post-acquisition integration. I support that process by bringing new acquisitions into our way of doing things, making sure that processes are standardized, streamlined, and make sense for the operators so that they can focus on the real task at hand, and that's caring for the people that we provide care for. My most notable professional achievement is approaching HR from a real person's stance, not just a rules and regulation stance. I've been able to operate in the gray and find that comfort in the gray. I received the Support Center Excellence Award this year at our Leadership Forum, which reinforced that I'm on the right path.

Her Interview

Ten minutes with Kelly

01What do you attribute your success to?

I attribute my success to perseverance. Sometimes you really have to just get scrappy and fight to continue to move forward, and that's okay. It's about never giving up and pushing through the challenges.

02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?

The best career advice I've ever received is to use every opportunity as a stepping stone to get to your end goal. Find a way to make sure that you maximize the impact along the way and use it to your advantage to get where you need to be or want to be.

03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?

The advice I would give to a young woman entering this industry is to never give up and never accept no for an answer. I find myself saying this to my kids and even to my mentee. I just said to her last week, did you ever think maybe it's not a no, it's just not now? Don't give up. Maybe it's just not now. I also have a t-shirt that I had made that says, be the woman you needed as a girl.

04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?

I would say the biggest opportunity, which could also be a challenge, is how AI is going to impact the field. I think it's going to be an opportunity for HR leaders to really be able to hone in on the data and connect data to initiatives from a strategic standpoint. The challenge is learning how that impact will affect us as HR professionals and being able to navigate that. We're going to have to figure it out and flex our mind so that we can adapt to the new landscape in HR. I think it sounds exciting that we'll really be able to quiet some of the noise around data. It's going to prove advantageous to us to be able to quiet some of that noise. When we talk about turnover and retention initiatives, we're going to be able to pull that data so quickly and see the gaps and identify those gaps. We just have to be flexible with how we're going to address them now. It's going to require us to address those gaps because they're going to show, so we're going to have to make sure that we're ready to attack that.

05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?

The values most important to me are compassion, integrity, and making sure everyone you encounter feels safe with you.

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