Andy has played an instrumental role in the success of his clients, working with Fortune 500 companies and other organizations on critical initiatives including integrated talent management strategy and planning, talent management transformation, change management, business process improvement, and technology selection and implementations.
Prior to establishing Black Box Consulting, Andy developed an extensive background in business process management, talent management and human resources. He held roles as Practice Manager for Integrated Talent Management and Principal Consultant at the Newman Group (a division of Korn/Ferry International), Senior Project Manager at Yahoo! Resumix, Staffing Director at Genentech, and Regional HR Director of Viant, a global internet and business consulting company. He also has an extensive background in talent acquisition, learning and development, performance management, leadership development, succession planning, compensation, workforce planning and employee relations.
Andy has been invited to speak and facilitate workshops on talent management for organizations such as the Human Capital Institute, the Conference Board, IHRIM, Argyle Executive Forum, the Electronic Recruiting Exchange, HRMAC and IHR.
Andy graduated summa cum laude with a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and spent the first five years after graduating as an engineer and engineering manager at Intel.
Jonathan Grafft, Principal Consultant
Jonathan comes to Black Box Consulting with significant background as a strategic and technical consultant and a proven track record working with Global Fortune 500 and emerging new economy clients. Jonathan brings a unique combination of talent management knowledge and technical skills to clients. He has developed industry knowledge and project management experience to help organizations evaluate best practices and implement process and technology for success.
Jonathan specializes in the management of large scale global projects, with experience in developing achievable project plans, communications, change management and training strategies to ensure on time, on budget, quality delivery. He has managed all phases of the systems implementation lifecycle: requirements definition, business process analysis and design, development, implementation and post-implementation optimization.
Prior to Black Box Consulting, Jonathan’s expertise was developed through client delivery and leadership roles with Korn/Ferry International, The Newman Group, John Deere and Hewitt Associates. He has experience utilizing Agile methodologies for project execution, allowing for continuous improvement at a pace sustainable in the client organization.
Jonathan obtained his Bachelor’s Degree from the University of Northern Iowa.
Kelly Keating, Principal Consultant
Kelly brings over 18 years experience to Black Box Consulting in helping clients improve the effectiveness of their HR systems and processes. She has served as senior consultant and project manager for complex HR projects with over 50 companies spanning 40 countries.
Kelly brings expertise in the areas of implementation planning, process and systems design, requirements definition and documentation, change management, training delivery and development. Her project experience includes designing and implementing global Talent Management suite of offerings, project management of large scale HR initiatives and transitioning clients to an outsourced environment.
Prior to joining Black Box Consulting, Kelly’s extensive expertise was developed through client delivery with Korn/Ferry International, ADP, PricewaterhouseCoopers and AIG. She is also certified in Prosci change management methodology.
Kelly has a Bachelors of Science in Business from Seton Hall University and completed an Advanced Strategic HR Practices Certificate Program at Cornell University.
Sally Millick, Principal Consultant
Sally brings a unique holistic view to helping clients achieve their goals in Talent Management. Her career spans positions in talent acquisition/RPO management, HR technology implementations and optimizations, technology and contingent labor vendor management, competency and selection processes, global mobility, and consulting operations. She is successful at defining high-level talent management processes, technologies, and change management strategies; tactical plans to achieve these strategies; and hands-on client delivery. With over 20 years of experience in the talent management field, she has served large clients in the Pharmaceutical, Financial, Defense, and other industries.
Sally is an accomplished communications and change management consultant. She has authored and delivered process and technology training for delivery to clients in classroom, webinar, and video formats, and facilitated both large and small workshop sessions at clients and national conferences.
Prior to joining Black Box Consulting, Sally had played both client delivery and operations leadership roles at Futurestep (a Korn/Ferry Company), including Vice President, Strategic Accounts and Principal Consultant. Other previous positions were as Principal Consultant at The Newman Group, and Manager, Strategic Staffing for Bausch + Lomb.
Sally has a Bachelor’s Degree from SUNY Potsdam, and has been certified by HRCI as SPHR since 2001.
Ernie Nunez, Principal Consultant
Ernie is a seasoned talent management program manager, skilled in helping clients successfully complete large scale global talent management transformation and technology implementation projects. He has lead teams on a variety of initiatives that include talent management program management, strategic assessments, requirements definition, system selection and system implementation.
Ernie also uses his broad experience in other aspects of corporate human resources, including competency framework development and application, on-boarding, goal setting and management, performance management, succession planning, legal compliance and contract management, in support of successfully achieving the client’s goals. Ernie is skilled at liaising with business leaders, client team members and technology vendors. His deep understanding of human capital processes and technologies, combined with his ability to drive complex global organizations to make decisions and meet timelines are keys to his repeated success. Ernie’s systems expertise includes SuccessFactors, Workday, Kenexa Recruiter BrassRing and Jobvite.
Prior to joining Black Box Consulting, Ernie held positions as Principal Consultant at Futurestep, Inc. where he was practice lead of the SuccessFactors Technology Group. He was the lead Corporate Recruiter for ENSR International and the Environment Division of before taking on the role of Global Talent Acquisition Technology Manager at AECOM. He also spent a number of years with Lockheed-Martin’s Aerospace Division where he held a number of technical and leadership positions.
Ernie holds Bachelors of Applied Science degree in Organizational Behavior and Information Systems from Loyola University, New Orleans.
Carole Seymour, Principal Consultant
Carole is a strategic partner to her clients, helping them realize the business value of their talent management processes and systems. She brings 20 years of Program Management, Change Management and Talent Management experience solving business problems with her clients, specializing in global and complex strategic initiatives.
Carole’s results provide repeatable and measurable operating models for her Fortune 500 client base. Through her consulting roles, Carole has developed teams and solutions that meet the rapidly changing demands of business, applying a realistic perspective focused on the clients’ ultimate business objectives and their ability to adopt, implement and sustain the resulting solution. With a unique blend of business and technical acumen, Carole is able to navigate between technical and functional stakeholders to drive significant business results.
Her project experience includes large scale organizational adoption, program management, career transitions, HR metrics, talent program optimization and technology implementations. Her technology experience includes Taleo, Oracle, PeopleSoft, Avature, Jobs2Web and integrated partners supporting the talent management lifecycle.
Prior to Black Box Consulting, Carole’s extensive expertise was developed through client delivery and leadership roles with Korn/Ferry International, The Newman Group, Yahoo! and Robert Half. She also has experience incorporating Six Sigma DMAIC and Agile methodologies into project execution, allowing for continuous improvement at a pace palatable to the client organization.
Carole has a Bachelor’s Degree from Valparaiso University.