Bonnie Shelor, 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 12,000 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 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 to reduce health care expenses, created an overarching culture of engagement that resulted in an organizational engagement score in the 97th health care 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:

• Best Places to Work in Virginia, Virginia Business, 2012.
• 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.
• Best Company for Working Mothers, Working Mother, yearly since 1998. (Top 20 in 2009, 2010 and 2011.)
• Working Mother Best Companies for Hourly Workers, 2010 and 2011.
• AARP Best Companies for Employees over 50, yearly since 2003. (Top 10 out of 50 in 2011.)
• National Association for Female Executives Top Company, yearly since 2005.
• Alfred P. Sloan for Business Excellence in Workplace Flexibility, yearly since 2006.
• Wellness in the Workplace, Virginia Business Coalition on Health, 2011.
• 2010 Employer of Choice, Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce & Richmond Society for Human Resource Management.
• Platinum Level Start! Fit-Friendly Company, American Heart Association, 2009, 2010 and 2011.
• Best Places to Work in Healthcare, Modern Healthcare, 2009.

Ms. Shelor has an undergraduate degree in Human Resources from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Va., and a graduate degree in Education & Human Development, The George Washington University in Washington, D.C.

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