Trummell Valdera

With 20 years of C-Level Human Resources experience, Trummell Valdera is well-equipped to advise organizations and professionals on a range of personnel-related topics. Possessing expertise in the health care arena, Valdera also has a deep knowledge of the retail and finance fields. She helps to formulate strategies for optimizing company culture, managing corporate operations, governance, and staff relationships, and administering sizable salary and benefits budgets. Trummell Valdera has worked in senior capacities for the Jackson Health System, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, and Group Health Association of Washington, D.C., among others.

Trummell Valdera focuses on strategy, culture change, leadership, talent, and governance development/relationship management in order to operationally align a balanced, results-oriented workforce. Other areas of Valdera’s expertise include Executive, Physician, and Staff Alternative Compensation and Benefits Design, learning organization development, labor negotiations planning, and integrated HRM Information Systems and ERPs. At the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, she reduced benefit costs by 25 percent. She took charge of an organizational budget exceeding $1.2 billion at Jackson Health System. As an Executive Human Resources Consultant in Pennsylvania, she developed a labor strife contingency plan that was later used as a national model for a major for-profit healthcare corporation.

In addition to holding a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Pennsylvania State University, Valdera possesses a lifetime certification from the Society of Human Resource Management as a Senior Professional in Human Resources. Recently, she has been featured by The Greater Miami Society for Human Resource Management as a speaker on health care management issues.