Claire Cooper
Practice Areas: Human Resources
Claire Cooper has more than 30 years of progressively responsible Human Resource and General Administrative expertise in companies up to 3,000 employees.
Formerly, Claire’s executive career spans a wide variety of industry experience as Chief People Strategist for Hawaiian Electric Company, Chief People Officer for Island Air, VP of HR for Hawaiian Telcom, VP HR-Hawaii Pacific University, and VP HR-Tesoro Hawaii. She has also worked in the Organization Development and Talent Management area as VP Organization Development and Training for First Hawaiian Bank, Training Officer for Bank of Hawaii, and in the aerospace industry as Sr. Management Development Representative at McDonnel Douglas and Hughes Aircraft Companies in California. Her career includes working for a national consulting firm as a Principal Consultant where she was part of the Organization Development / Employee Productivity practice. In that capacity, she worked on multiple projects in Hawaii, California,Nevada, and Arizona.
Her recent positions have focused on design, development, and implementation of startup HR departments and strategic company initiatives to increase company competitiveness, employee engagement, employee performance, and develop leadership readiness. She has continued this type of work in her consulting practice, Workforce Excel LLC. In that capacity she has done numerous consulting assignments where she consulted on organization initiatives in change management, leadership and employee development, and organization and culture transformation.
Ms. Cooper is a graduate of the Wharton Executive Program in Human Resource Strategy and holds a Master of Arts in Education and Bachelor of Arts in Communication from Michigan State University. She has numerous certifications and special training in areas of leadership, facilitation, communication, engagement, assessments, quality service, compensation, and collaborative problem solving.
Claire has served as a Board member for numerous community organizations and has worked with local non-profits in a variety of initiatives. Her professional organizations included the Society of Human Resource Management, Human Resource Planning Society, World At Work, and the Association for Talent Development.
