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I develop people
& the systems
that help them thrive.

I wasn’t just created to make a living. I was created to make a difference. Helping people find their voice, leaders grow their capacity, and systems become healthier.

An executive who builds high-performing teams and strong cultures — and the durable HR, compliance, and operational systems that sustain them. Twenty-plus years across logistics, retail, property management, education, and nonprofit sectors.

20+ yrs  Enterprise HR & Operations 11 States + Canada  HR Footprint Most Loved Workplace®  Culture Lead, 3x Certified Employer (2024–2026)
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Amy Baker-Ogunyemi
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Who I Am
I develop high-performing people and strong cultures — and I build the durable systems that help them last.

Amy Baker-Ogunyemi is a capacity builder, advocate, educator, consultant, and organizational leader committed to helping people find their voice, leaders grow their capacity, and systems become healthier.

Executive leader known for two things that usually live apart: developing people — through leadership development, coaching, culture, and engagement — and building the total rewards, HR operations, and compliance infrastructure that sustains that growth.

I have led teams and transformations across logistics, transportation, retail, property management, education, and nonprofit sectors, and I founded an education and workforce-development enterprise of my own. That range lets me meet an organization wherever it is: scaling its people, strengthening its culture, or stabilizing the systems beneath both.

Recognized for combining compliance rigor with people-centered leadership — restoring alignment and accountability while building the capacity, confidence, and culture that drive long-term growth.

Selected Impact

Outcomes for people and the bottom line.

3×
Led employer to Most Loved Workplace® certification (2024, 2025 & 2026)
100%
Leader advancement (mentored cohort to executive roles)
16%
Organization-wide turnover reduction
300%
HR function scaling for multi-state expansion
130+
Roles benchmarked & banded into salary structures
12 yrs
Zero employment litigation across career
23%
Benefit renewal cost reduction via plan redesign & negotiation
14mo→6wk
401(k) audit cycle compressed (from ~14 months to 6–8 weeks)
$30M
Annual multi-entity payroll oversight
Recognition

Culture you can measure.

202420252026
Three Years
Led an Employer to Most Loved Workplace® Certification — three years running.

Most Loved Workplace® is a certification awarded to organizations by the Best Practice Institute, based on validated employee sentiment and engagement data. As Director of Human Resources and enterprise culture lead for my employer, I partnered directly with individual business units to build engagement action plans, then reviewed executed action items to hold the organization accountable for follow-through — helping the company earn the certification in 2024, 2025, and 2026 with measurable year-over-year gains in engagement. Strong operations and a strong culture are not competing priorities; the discipline that produces clean audits is the same discipline that earns employees’ trust.

In Their Words

What people experience when I lead.

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The puzzle piece we’ve been missing. I do not believe there is an area she cannot navigate effectively.

VP of Human Resources
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Calm, confident, and well versed. I don’t think anything could arise in HR that you could not handle.

Chief People Officer
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It’s difficult to imagine anyone else managing the broken processes of others with the same level of effectiveness.

Head of HR
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Your insight into complex issues and unique approach to creating stability have been truly invaluable.

Senior HR Director
Professional Recommendations
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Amy served as a strategic partner and led our executive team through a challenging change-management process that proved to be very methodical and successful in the end. Amy scaled our HR department by 300%, developing a team who provided exemplary service and support to individuals with diverse personalities and skill sets throughout four states, including overseeing the recruitment and selection team. I have the utmost respect and confidence in Amy’s ability to lead as a Human Resources professional. She has proven to be an honest, caring, and thoughtful person whom our team, and moreso our leadership team, rely on for guidance and mentorship — flexible and adaptable in a high-pressure environment.

— Managing Director / CEO
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I have been continually impressed by Amy’s drive to support those around her and steadily strive for the best. She is sought out by her peers and team for guidance and regularly puts action behind her words of help. She offers extensive expertise in the world of Human Resources and has an impressive education to support her understanding. As a brilliant, hardworking, and empathetic leader, Amy is an astounding asset to any team she is on. I believe that any company lucky enough to have her will find great success and terrific growth among their employees.

— HR Generalist
Career

Two decades of turnaround & transformation.

2015 — Present
Chief Executive Officer
Mon Amie’s Business & Wellness Solutions  ·  Bossier City, Louisiana
  • Scaled a multi-service organization, leading business strategy, operations, financial planning, service development, marketing, and organizational growth.
  • Advise business owners and organizational leaders on HR strategy, employee relations, compliance, performance management, workplace culture, and operational effectiveness.
  • Design and implement customized workforce solutions, leadership development programs, professional training, and workplace wellness initiatives.
  • Developed multiple service lines and revenue streams spanning management consulting, HR services, educational support, wellness programming, and youth development.
  • Build strategic partnerships with businesses, schools, nonprofits, and community organizations to expand reach and identify new opportunities.
June 2023 — August 2026
Director of Human Resources
National Logistics & Transportation Firm  ·  U.S. & Canada
270 employees 2 countries 8 states 43 unique labor markets
  • Built and revised enterprise salary structures and pay bands using market benchmarking — establishing metro-priced ranges, a title-equivalency framework, and gap analysis across 130+ roles to align pay to internal equity and market competitiveness.
  • Designed job-leveling architecture and formal career paths, giving employees defined progression and leaders a defensible basis for promotion, offer, and organizational-change decisions.
  • Owned benefits strategy end to end — plan design, cost modeling, utilization review, open enrollment, and broker and carrier negotiation — balancing employee experience against cost trend.
  • Inherited a department in crisis — a year-late 401(k) audit, payroll tax delinquencies, broken benefit feeds, and an underdeveloped HR team — and rebuilt it into the most compliant, stable function in five years.
  • Resolved 400+ agency notices across payroll tax, multi-state filings, and Workers’ Comp; eliminated a six-figure state penalty and interest assessment in full.
  • Identified and resolved every finding from the inherited 401(k) audit and self-initiated an additional plan audit, then merged a separately administered acquired plan into the main plan with zero issues.
  • Cut payroll processing from 3 days to 1 (67%) and reduced the error rate by 95%+ via reconciliation tracking, incident reporting, and systems automation.
  • As Director of HR, led the engagement initiative that earned the company three consecutive Most Loved Workplace® certifications (Best Practice Institute, 2024–2026) — building business-unit action plans and driving year-over-year engagement gains.
  • Established U.S. oversight of Canadian operations; trained and upskilled an inexperienced team into a credentialed function with a developed successor.
2013 — 2020
Strategic Human Resources Director
Multi-State Property Management Company  ·  55 Locations  ·  5 States
  • Stabilized a multi-state workforce across 55 locations — redesigning HR architecture and accountability structures and scaling the function 300%.
  • Reduced turnover 16% through engagement strategy and modernized benefits, cutting medical renewal costs 23%.
  • Maintained zero employment litigation throughout tenure through proactive compliance governance; oversaw $30M annual multi-entity payroll across 55 business units.
2009 — 2013
Human Resources Manager
National Retail Corporation  ·  Louisiana & Texas
  • Modernized compliance and operational consistency across a multi-store network; standardized onboarding and training frameworks.
  • Mentored 12 emerging leaders to 100% advancement into executive roles; designed workforce planning models aligning staffing to sales forecasts.
Geographic Reach

HR & people operations led across 11 states and Canada.

Louisiana Texas Florida California Colorado New Mexico South Carolina Pennsylvania New York Oregon Georgia Canada
Expertise

What I bring to the table.

Enterprise HR Transformation Compensation Strategy & Salary Structures Job Leveling & Career Pathing Market Benchmarking & Pay Equity Benefits Design & Cost Strategy Broker, Carrier & Vendor Negotiation 401(k) / Fiduciary Governance HRIS Strategy & Data Integrity Regulatory & Tax Compliance Audit Readiness & Remediation Multi-State Payroll Operations Cross-Border (U.S. / Canada) Operations Risk & Liability Mitigation Turnaround & Change Leadership Culture & Engagement Strategy Workforce Analytics & Reporting Team Development & Upskilling Succession Planning Mission-Driven Organizational Design Speaking & Facilitation Workplace Wellness & Trauma-Informed Leadership Emerging HR Professional Development Advocacy & Youth / Parent Support
Credentials

Education & affiliations.

Doctor of Education (EdD), Community Care & Counseling — Traumatology
Liberty University
In progress
M.Ed., Human Resources & Workforce Development
University of Arkansas
Master of Business Administration
University of Phoenix
B.S., Human Resources Management
Louisiana Tech University
Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc.
Academic & Teaching

Practitioner-scholar in the classroom.

Alongside my executive work, I teach and develop adult learners — bringing real-world practice into business, HR, leadership, and workforce-development instruction. I'm especially passionate about developing emerging HR professionals — helping those who know the theory build the judgment, confidence, and employee-relations instincts to navigate real workplace situations.

Education
  • Ed.D., Community Care & Counseling — Traumatology
    Liberty University · Coursework in progress
  • M.Ed., Human Resources & Workforce Development
    University of Arkansas
  • MBA · University of Phoenix
  • B.S., Human Resources Management
    Louisiana Tech University
Graduate Preparation
  • 27 graduate credit hours — Human Resource & Workforce Development
  • 12 graduate credit hours — Public Mental Health
  • 12 doctoral credit hours completed — Community Counseling & Trauma Studies
  • Additional graduate coursework in educational research and adult learning
Teaching Interests
  • Business Administration & Management
  • Human Resource Management & Employee Relations
  • Organizational Leadership, Behavior & Development
  • Workforce Development, Training & Adult Learning
Authorship
  • Author of five published books on athlete mental health, resilience, and faith.
  • The Anxious Athlete · Raising the Anxious Athlete · Coaching the Whole Athlete
  • The Champion’s Devotional · Hopeless Surrender
Work With Me

Partner with my practice.

Beyond my executive role, I help organizations strengthen culture and develop leaders through Mon Amie’s Solutions — available for fractional HR, consulting, and leadership engagements.

After twenty-plus years building and leading HR inside organizations, I’m choosing fractional work because it’s where my strengths matter most. I do my best work walking into a company that’s outgrowing its people infrastructure — no HR foundation yet, or an inherited mess of compliance and culture issues — and quickly building the systems and leadership that let it scale. That’s exactly the moment most startups and SMBs hit, and it rarely justifies a full-time CHRO.

Consulting & Fractional HR
Culture360

A full-spectrum culture and HR consulting practice for organizations that want the discipline of enterprise HR without the full-time overhead — from compliance and operations to engagement and culture transformation.

  • Fractional / interim HR leadership
  • Culture & engagement assessment and strategy
  • Compliance, payroll, and HR operations modernization
  • Turnaround & change-management support
Ideal for growing companies, nonprofits, and teams in transition.
Leadership Development
Leadership Lab™

Mon Amie’s leadership development practice, building the capacity of managers and emerging leaders through coaching, structured development plans, and accountability frameworks that translate directly into performance.

  • Leadership & management development programs
  • Executive and emerging-leader coaching
  • Succession planning & capacity building
  • Team development and upskilling
Ideal for organizations investing in their people and pipeline.
Speaking & Facilitation
On the Mic

Keynotes, panels, and workshops on the human side of work — trauma-informed leadership, workplace wellness, protecting your peace, and navigating difficult workplace dynamics with courage and clarity.

  • Keynotes & conference sessions
  • Leadership & team workshops
  • Workplace wellness & trauma-informed leadership
  • Panels & facilitated conversations
Ideal for conferences, leadership teams, and employee events.
Community & Family Impact
Whole Village

Through Mon Amie’s Solutions, people-centered programming beyond the workplace — youth development, educational advocacy, parent support, and wellness initiatives that help families and communities thrive.

  • Youth development & mentoring
  • Educational advocacy & parent support
  • Wellness & resilience programming
  • Community partnerships
Ideal for schools, families, nonprofits, and community organizations.
Let’s Talk

Let’s build something that lasts.

Whether you’re an organization that could benefit from stronger culture, leadership, and HR operations — or exploring an executive partnership — I’d welcome the conversation.

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