Bonnie Shelor, the Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer for Bon Secours Virginia Health System, is responsible for the development and implementation of strategic human resources vision and goals for the organization. She has worked in human resources for more than two decades and has worked for Bon Secours since 1994.
Bon Secours Virginia, the fourth largest health system in the Commonwealth, includes seven award-winning hospitals and brings together a network of hospitals, primary care practices, ambulatory care sites and continuing care facilities to provide quality health care services to thousands of Virginians. The not-for-profit health system employs more than 13,000 people. Ms. Shelor is well versed in operations and business strategies and understands human resource’s role in helping achieve them. She has created, implemented and measured human resource strategies resulting in improved organizational performance.
During Ms. Shelor’ s tenure with Bon Secours, she culturally and operationally integrated two health systems, implemented an Accountable Care Organization for employees designed to create a Culture of Wellness and reduce healthcare expense, created an overarching culture of engagement that resulted in an organizational engagement score in the 98th percentile as measured by the Gallup organization and developed a Talent Acquisition Center of Excellence creating a brand for the organization to the external and internal community. In addition, Ms. Shelor implemented an Enterprise wide Talent Management, Talent Mapping and Talent Succession process designed to identify high potential/performance leaders to ensure the next generation of leadership.
Ms. Shelor has been honored to be recognized with several awards including the Executive Women in Business Achievement Award presented by Ernst & Young, Style Weekly, and Troutman Sanders, the Bonnie Dayan Memorial Award, sponsored by the Center for Companies That Care and the Human Resource Strategist of the Year Award, by the Titan Group LLC and Richmond Society for Human Resource Management. In addition, because of her work in developing a positive workplace for older workers, which has been recognized by AARP yearly since 2003, Ms. Shelor was invited to testify in July 2010 before the U.S. Senate Finance Committee hearing, “Choosing to Work During Retirement and the Impact on Social Security.”
Under Ms. Shelor’s tenure, Bon Secours became known as an Employer of Choice and has been recognized by numerous prestigious organizations:
- 2011 and 2010 Gallup Great Workplace Awards, Gallup. The Gallup Great Workplace Award recognizes companies for their extraordinary ability to create an engaged workplace culture. Fewer than 30 organizations worldwide earned this award in 2011.
- Best Company for Working Mothers, Working Mother magazine, yearly since 1998. (Top 20 in 2009, 2010 and 2011.)
- AARP Best Companies for Employees Over 50, yearly 2003-2012. ( top 10, 2009-2011)
- National Association for Female Executives, 2005-2012.
- Alfred P. Sloan for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility, yearly 2006-2012.
- 2010 Employer of Choice, as named by the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce and the Richmond Society for Human Resource Management.
- Companies That Care Honor Roll, yearly 2007-2010.
Ms. Shelor has an undergraduate degree in Human Resources from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., and a graduate degree in Education and Human Development from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
