Your HR Solutions Specialists

Tina Welch specializes in helping small, entrepreneurial organizations grow faster through exceptional people processes. Known for putting her heart and soul into the organization, Tina takes a practical approach when evaluating any HR system or process, ensuring that it is tailored to achieve the business strategy desired.

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Tina Welch specializes in helping small, entrepreneurial organizations grow faster through exceptional people processes. Known for putting her heart and soul into the organization, Tina takes a practical approach when evaluating any HR system or process, ensuring that it is tailored to achieve the business strategy desired.

Tina has more than 30 years of experience working in for-profit, employee-owned, not-for-profit, and public institutions helping shape their organization’s culture and value system. She has held leadership positions with executive teams, and corporate boards as well as an elected official.  She brings all of this experience to bear when working with her clients so that organizations can learn from this experience and adapt the best ideas to suit their needs.

Tina has significant experience with strategic planning, recruitment and selection, performance management, training and development, mentoring, reward and recognition programs, wellness programs, as well as corporate governance, employee ownership plans and policy development.

Tina is skilled at using a variety of personality assessments to help organizations select, manage and develop their employees in targeted ways.  Using individual and organizational assessments, Tina can help to diagnose team issues and work with clients to develop methods to strengthen team understanding, communication and performance.

During Tina’s tenure with Restek Corporation, she started and grew the Human Resources function, helping the organization grow from 70 employees in Pennsylvania to more than 400 employees across the US and world-wide.  In this time the organization was recognized several times as an outstanding workplace due to the organization’s culture.  Her work helped secure ranking on the PA Best 100 Places to Work award 3 times, was voted as the Best Small Workplace by Inc. Magazine, and was voted one of the outstanding workplaces for Women by the State College Professional Women’s Association.  At age 24 Tina was invited to speak at the First International Conference on ISO9000, describing how she led her organization to ISO registration in only 9 months using a team-based approach.

Tina has a BS. in Health Policy and Administration and an M.S. in Human Resources Training and Development from Penn State University.  She has taught Human Resources Management courses for Juniata College and is a frequent invited speaker to HR and Career Development symposiums and conferences.  She was a Board member of Restek Corporation for 6 years, holding the office of Secretary and being a key player that led the organization to 100% employee ownership as their ownership transition strategy.  She held or currently holds Board positions for Leadership Centre County, Columbia Child Development Program, Susquehanna Human Resource Management Association, and the Central PA Chamber of Commerce. In addition to also being a graduate of Leadership Central Penn, Tina was also elected to the Board of School Directors for Penn’s Valley School District, which grew to be ranked as the 8th highest performing district in Pennsylvania out of 501 districts during her 6 years on the board. Tina continues adding to her community and professional development through volunteer activities with a number of local non-profit organizations.

Beyond her professional accomplishments, Tina and her husband of 30+ years, are the proud parents of 4 children, all boys, spanning an age range of 13 years.  She enjoys gardening, cooking, home improvement (anything to do with power tools), running and water sports.

Steve Welch is an entrepreneur at heart and a teacher by nature!  His passion is turning an idea into a business and then putting all the pieces together to make it grow.  Steve has more than 20 years of experience starting and growing small businesses in the Mid–Atlantic region through strategic management, leadership, team building, and

Steve Welch is an entrepreneur at heart and a teacher by nature!  His passion is turning an idea into a business and then putting all the pieces together to make it grow.  Steve has more than 20 years of experience starting and growing small businesses in the Mid–Atlantic region through strategic management, leadership, team building, and employee development. His businesses spanned a variety of fields including photography, baking, construction and renovation, and furniture building. His ability to position a company’s core strengths in a marketing and sales plan is exceptional.

Steve took that passion for business and turned his focus towards helping other entrepreneurs cultivate the seeds of their businesses.  He takes two paths to this end.  He enjoys teaching professionally at Bloomsburg University in the College of Business to inspire young entrepreneurs and business students in their pursuits.  As a professor, Steve takes a dynamic approach to presenting concepts using current events, case studies and practical application in projects to achieve exceptional student engagement.  He uses a variety of teaching strategies to convey concepts and drive the message home. Steve is so passionate about helping young entrepreneurs that he is the Director of the Bloomsburg University Entrepreneurial Leadership Center; in addition, he is also a faculty advisor for Enactus and SHRM

Student and peers alike recognize him for the passion and commitment he shows about the importance of his work and his commitment to student success.  As a consultant, Steve strives to help current small businesses achieve their goals through his specialty areas of Talent Management, Succession Planning, Competency Modeling and Performance Consulting.  He uses the same engaging approach to understand client’s needs and then determine a way to help them see the steps they need to take in growing their company.

Steve is an avid learner, researcher and publisher. He has a Ph.D. in Human Resource Development (HRD) and Organization Development (OD) from Penn State University. Steve also has a dual B.S. degree in Business Administration and Photography; as well as, a M.S. in Learning and Performance Systems with an emphasis in leadership development in the public and private sector. He is also a graduate of Leadership Central Penn. His research includes effective leadership competencies in the private and public sectors. In addition, he is investigating delivery of effective online leadership development training competencies to support online leader and leadership development programs.

Steve has been published in several juried and non-juried scholarly publications on subjects such as the difference between Training and Organization Development, and Leadership Competencies. He was also published in the International Journal of E-Learning this year for Examining Graduate Students’ Perceptions of and Preferences for Online Courses. Steve also presented at national conferences on the best practices of federal human recourse management, organizational diagnosis on the retention and satisfaction of employees, and perception and preferences of online training delivery. In August, Steve presented at the Business and Applied Sciences Academy of North America (BAASANA), where he is also on the board of directors, on the topic of: Do Leaders who Underrate Themselves Objectively Perform Better as Leaders?

In addition to his many professional accomplishments, Steve and his wife of 30+ years enjoys spending time with their four sons, is an avid reader and researcher, loves to cook and working on home improvements.