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HRA Background

HRA was established in 2001 to provide highly tailored and specialized consulting services in talent and performance management.  The firm focuses on four practice areas: executive assessment, executive coaching, HR architecture and HR analytics/metrics.  We have produced highly customized solutions in each of these areas.

The HRA business model is designed to staff in accordance with the particular needs of each engagement we serve.   To accomplish this we maintain a core group of consultants and a network of experts in the field of human capital management.  Dr. Stephen Steinhaus oversees and, generally, plays an integral role in most HRA projects.

Professionals in our HR Expert Network (HR-EN) are carefully vetted for particular projects to assure that our mission of HR alignment is maintained in our own backyard.    We believe our alliance of experts provides our clients with the following key advantages compared to traditional consulting firms:

• Consultants matched to project needs rather than force-fitting from limited bench availability

• Senior-level expertise after the point of sale and throughout an engagement

• Multiple perspectives, skills and tools outside of one-firm dogma and tool box

• Tailored solutions rather than proprietary services

• Minimized fixed-cost structure to provide greater value

Our Mission, Vision and Values provide a clear set of objectives for what we do and uncompromising standards for how we do it.

HRA Principal

Dr. Steinhaus has held a variety of positions as an industrial psychologist in business for over 20 years.  He has held key positions as Corporate Industrial Psychologist for Ameritech and as Managing Director for Saville & Holdsworth.    As a consultant, Dr. Steinhaus has worked in many different business environments reflecting different industries and size businesses.  A sample of clients he has worked with include: Ameritech, McDonald's, Microsoft, 3M, Target, U.S. West, The Limited, United Airlines, Northwest Airlines, Borg Warner, IBM, Procter & Gamble, S.C. Johnson & Son, Wal-Mart, Hyatt International, Classic Residences, Qwest, W.W. Grainger, Truworths, Baxter, Amerex, U.S. Department of Defense and Chicago Public Schools.  He has also worked with numerous mid-size companies.

In the area of executive coaching, Dr. Steinhaus has worked with high potential leaders who have development needs and/or are being groomed for advancement.    He applies a highly systematic process that is specifically tailored to the needs of the business and individual circumstances.  The process is very collaborative and in-depth and includes: defining leverageable strengths and development opportunities, identifying behaviors with unintended consequences and associated drivers, developing actionable change commitments, building a bold leadership vision and clarifying support opportunities. 

In the area of executive assessment, Dr. Steinhaus uses a very strategic approach to assure a good match with position requirements.   His executive assessments are among the most in-depth in the industry.   This is based upon his belief that leadership employment decisions truly warrant extensive data collection and analysis.  As such, he collects and systematically triangulates information from numerous divergent sources.  His reports and follow-up are so thorough, they are not only used for selection decisions but also further leveraged for professional development and on-boarding.

Dr. Steinhaus has worked with corporations to develop a variety of HR processes and systems – most having assessment and coaching components.  He has developed processes and systems for employment, promotion, performance management, succession planning and workforce management.   As a process architect, he builds cutting edge, state-of-the-art solutions that are intensely practical. 

In purely analytic engagements, he works in areas such as job and organizational analysis, competency modeling, culture audits and cost-benefit analyses. Regardless of the engagement, his analyses are highly sophisticated, rigorous and holistic.     

Dr. Steinhaus holds several professional degrees, including a doctorate in industrial psychology and a masters degree in psychology.  He has published and presented on a variety of topics related to human resource management and industrial psychology.  He is a member of the Society of Industrial/Organizational Psychology and the American Psychological Association. 

Dr. Steinhaus has long been deeply committed to optimizing human resources and is passionate about the following:

• Alignment of human resources with key business goals

• Insights and solutions for both organizations and individuals that go deep below the surface

• Driving HR solutions that are state of the art, but extremely practical

• Clarity of a unique focus in each new engagement

• Commitment to customer-defined requirements and total quality

• Close partnership with clients and joint ownership of project goals

• Solutions that are integrated within a big-picture perspective

• Assuring that clients receive value substantially in excess of costs