Michelle Sikes | Business Partner

About: Most of Michelle's career has been functioning as a Business Owner in the Book Industry and managing aspects for over 150 employees. Upon walking away from the business through a divorce in 2015, Michelle pursued Human Resources and held Director and Senior Leader roles with a focus on helping companies understand state compliance and developing leadership and functioning as a trusted advisor to the C-Suite. Michelle holds a current HR Certification, SHRM-SCP, and possesses a unique skill set and functions strategy to help clients reach their business goals. Michelle was recruited to join BBSI in 2020 as a Business Partner, whereby she gets the daily opportunity to act as the business owners' advocate and work to benchmark, analyze, and deliver measurable results to client businesses.

Specialties: Michelle has the ability to operationalize concepts with business acumen having spent the majority of her career as a business owner. She is innately curious and possesses Business-owner empathy with a stakeholder mentality. Self-guided professional development in areas of Organization Development and Culture Design, Risk and Safety, Payroll, Employer Benefits and Workers Compensation.

Quote: "In any given moment, we have two options: to step forward into growth or step back into safety." —Abraham Maslow

Connect: Contact Michelle at michelle.sikes@bbsi.com or at (805) 422-2421 or visit her website below!

member since February 2024