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How to Account for Human Factors in Resource Management

Behind every staffing decision is a person with goals, energy levels, and limits. Beth Hunter and Lisa Reed explore how to bring care, context, and trust into resource management without losing sight of business outcomes, from spotting early signs of burnout to balancing wellbeing with utilization and project demands.

What you'll learn

  • What organizations that handle the human side of Resource Management well are doing differently day to day
  • How to balance individual wellbeing, development goals, and energy levels with business needs, utilization, and project demands
  • How to spot early signs of burnout, disengagement, or performance dips - and respond in a way that is supportive, fair, and practical
  • How to build trust when you need to say no, push back, or make difficult staffing decisions

Our speakers

Beth Hunter, RMCP®

Beth Hunter, RMCP®

Resource Experience Management Leader, Rehmann

Beth Hunter is a Resource Experience Management Leader at Rehmann, where she puts people first to achieve “right person, right project, right time” outcomes. She is also a founding member of the Resource Management Executive Forum and an Advisory Board Member of the Resource Management Institute. Before joining Rehmann, Beth spent more than 10 years at EY, where she provided experience management for 200+ consultants, balanced demand and supply across business needs, project preferences, working styles, and team dynamics, and led staffing conversations with Talent, Recruiting, Finance, and business leaders. Beth brings a deeply people-centered perspective to Resource Management, grounded in trust, relationship-building, and sustainable delivery.

Lisa Reed, RMCP®, LSSGB

Lisa Reed, RMCP®, LSSGB

Former Director of Workforce Optimization, Aprio

Lisa Reed is a strategic operations and workforce planning leader with deep experience in enterprise Resource Management, operating model design, and workforce optimization. Most recently, she served as Director of Workforce Optimization at Aprio, where she led enterprise workforce planning and Resource Management for a top 25 professional services firm, designing a scalable RM framework supporting 2,000+ professionals across multiple service lines. Lisa also spent nearly 20 years at CBIZ, progressing from HR and HRIS roles into national Resource Management leadership, where she represented RM operations and systems across a large, multi-office professional services firm. She brings a practical, systems-oriented perspective to human-centered resourcing, helping leaders align capacity, demand, skills, and business priorities in complex environments.

Nora Fleischhut

Nora Fleischhut

Transformation Consultant

Nora Fleischhut is an experienced transformation consultant, passionate speaker, and future of work enthusiast. After working in consulting at one of the Big Four for seven years, she’s now partnering with Runn on a mission to unleash the potential of organizations and people by creating more adaptable, human, and joyful ways of working and enabling a change of perspective. With her optimistic, collaborative, and innovative mindset, she creatively draws on methods and expertise from the fields of neurobiology, behavioral sciences, agile ways of working, and psychology. How her friends would describe her to a stranger: Unfalteringly positive.

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