Board Advisors

Ralph E. Adams, a senior executive and consultant with extensive-global experience and expertise in all areas of human resources management and organizational development. He has been affiliated with Hamlin Harkins, Ltd. for more than 15 years.

His corporate experience includes development and management of all areas within the profession including:

• Human resources policy
• Employee relations including both labor-represented and union-free workforces
• Benefits
• Strategically-based total compensation programs
• Human resource information systems
• All elements comprising international human resources including expatriate compensation and offshore local staff management.

Other specialty areas include business acquisition due diligence and organization integration, change management, competency modeling, conflict resolution, facilitation and intervention skills, employee communications, training and development, team building and succession planning. His scope of business experience includes an extensive array of industries ranging in size from start-up operations to large, global corporations.

He is the former vice president, human resources for Publishers Circulation Fulfillment, Inc., AGROMAC International Inc.; and BioReliance, Inc. He held director and managerial positions for FMC Corporation, The Bendix Aerospace & Technology Sector at Allied-Signal Corporation and AAR-Brooks & Perkins, Inc.

His assignments for Hamlin Harkins include executive coaching and development, succession planning program process development and implementation; international human resource management, organizational development and change interventions, compensation and benefit program design and implementation and human resource planning. Clients, served globally, include high technology, bio-technology, petroleum & chemical, service industry, retail (for grocery and sporting goods businesses), automotive industry, banking and finance, non-profits, federal & state government agencies and agricultural implement industry.

Mr. Adams holds a bachelor of science degree from Michigan State University's College of Social Science, School of Labor and Industrial Relations.