STEPHANIE HODGE, ESSEX CONSULTING | HR CONSULTANT OFFICER

Stephanie Hodge is CEO and Principal Consultant for Essex Consulting, LLC; a certified woman-owned, small business, providing human resource and business consulting for small and mid-sized companies. She has over 24 years of global HR experience leading teams in North America, Canada, and South America, in the financial services, software/technology, and non-profit industries.

Stephanie is known as a transformational leader with experience facilitating change and growth in performance management, talent development, and succession planning, and strategic HR management.  Under her leadership, as Chief HR Officer, Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Atlanta was the proud recipient of the “2016’s Best and Brightest Companies to Work For” award.

Stephanie’s philosophy is to help businesses develop and execute strategies that achieve organizational success, through the development of their people. Stephanie enjoys aligning people strategies that support business goals, adding a personal touch, by utilizing her HR expertise to resolve business challenges.

Stephanie is a certified professional in human resources (PHR), holds a master’s degree in Organization and Management from Capella University; and is currently pursuing her doctorate in Business Administration. She is a faculty member for Georgia Center for Nonprofits: Nonprofit University and is a guest lecturer at Georgia State University. She is a member of the Greater Women’s Business Council, the Atlanta Black Chambers, Cobb Chamber of Commerce, and the Georgia Chamber. She is an active member of the National Associate of African Americans in HR and the Society for HR Management (SHRM) Atlanta and National Chapters. Stephanie was recently featured on Business RadioX and profiled in VoyageATL.