Aperture EQ Services

Janelle functions as a project manager, ensuring that large-scale HR initiatives are properly planned, resourced, and managed to ensure successful implementation. Janelle’s areas of expertise include the design and implementation of talent management systems as well as processes encompassing recruitment and onboarding, training, performance management, employee relations, PIP development, and classification and compensation. She has also developed technical competencies for positions to aide in training and development activities for career and succession planning.

Janelle has a talent for developing and delivering training at all levels, including supervisory training and management coaching. Over the years, Janelle has developed training programs that include topics such as managing employee behaviors, communication strategies, bias in supervisory hiring and decision making, dealing with difficult conversations, building trust within a team, and intergenerational team conflict. Janelle works with companies to develop custom training content based on specific issues or needs. Janelle also provides coaching and guidance to executives, managers, and employees regarding employee relations issues, conflict resolution, and communication.  

Janelle has over 15 years' experience developing legally defensible tests and assessment centers for Civil Service (Police/Fire) hiring and promotional processes. This includes creating the examination content and scoring matrices, facilitating the assessment center process, and assuring compliance of Civil Service rules and terms of the collective bargaining agreement. As part of this work, she created a diversity and recruitment program for the hiring and promotion of Police Officers that included innovative marketing strategies and free hiring seminars for applicants, as well as assessment center training for candidates prior to the promotional exam.