Her Story
About Stacy
As Chief of Staff at S3 Recycling Solutions, I juggle a lot being a department of one - every day is ever-changing. First and foremost, I handle any kind of employee relation concerns. I do a lot of strategic planning, including leadership development, and I serve on the executive team with our CEO and COO - I'm the only female on the executive team. My education background comes in handy as I plan the sessions we conduct each week on different subjects. I handle all things insurance, onboarding people and getting them set up for benefits. I'm over all of our audit things - in our industry, the highest certification you can obtain is called R2V3, and it's a very extensive process that's once a year for a week long, but it's something we work on every day. I do public speaking engagements and oversee all of our community projects - one of our core values is community, so giving back is a huge thing. I'm the main contact person for marketing, so anything that gets put up on our website, I touch on that. All employee trainings are conducted by me. I'm SHRM certified - I obtained my SHRM-CP in January of this year, which is the highest certification you can have in HR. I attend the monthly local chapter events and the global yearly conference. I serve on a couple of boards, including the Workforce and Education Council for Robertson County, Tennessee, where we collaborate with those in need and local businesses on how we can get people employment. I conduct all interviews for hiring on a weekly basis, serve on our company board, draft lots of policies and SOPs, and serve on an LX Council - a group that's supposed to be for CEOs, and I'm the only one that's not a CEO in the group. It's for leadership development and professional development for myself.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Stacy
01What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute my success to the mentors that have poured into me. Honestly, our company's CEO, who is my boss, Rod McDaniel, has pushed me in ways that I would have never pushed myself. I wouldn't be who I am today without him and how much he has poured into me to push me to grow. But I really should say this first - I wouldn't be where I'm at today if it wasn't for my relationship with the Lord. I'm also a trauma survivor, and I'm very grateful that I've been able to go through years of intense trauma therapy. All those things combined have shaped who I am. I consider having some of the most perseverance of anybody that I know. I was not a very great student until college and struggled a lot in school, and I'd have to work a lot harder than everybody else. My work ethic is wonderful because of my parents. I was raised that if you want something, you have to work hard for it, and I have persevered through a lot of trials and tribulations when it comes to my son and the other traumas that I have faced, through just a lot of hard work.
02What’s the best career advice you’ve ever received?
The best career advice I've ever received comes from our company CEO, Rod McDaniel, who has won Entrepreneur of the Year and is in all kinds of stuff. He taught me that growth often comes from moments of challenge. I think that phrasing really resonates with me - that we grow the most when we're pushed beyond our comfort zone. It's something he reminds us of when we struggle or when we're challenged, and it's become a guiding principle for me.
03What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
Be confident in your abilities. Don't settle. Strive to be the best.
04What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
One of the biggest challenges in my field would be the perception of HR as non-strategic. I have to fight that battle often. Not within my company, but just as a whole. The world doesn't view oftentimes HR as strategic, where it is very strategic.
05What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
The most important values to me are hard work, devotion, and treating people the way you want to be treated. I'm in HR, so culture and people are everything, and I think that's a value that needs to be stressed more - it's not super common in the generations nowadays. That makes me sound old, but it goes back to the golden rule - just treat other people the way you want to be treated. Just do right by people, and everything else will fall into place.
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