Joe Posner is the Managing Director of Human Resources for New Visions.
Joe seeks to foster a “best-place-to-work” atmosphere and a shared philosophy that people are our most valued asset.
He believes strongly in HR as a pathway to enabling organizational success through the power of people, designing a framework of systems and supports to create the right conditions and experiences to attract, engage and retain highly talented individuals whose values and passions align with the organization’s core values and mission.
Joe joined New Visions in 2013 and oversees all Human Resources functions for each New Visions for Public Schools and New Visions Charter High Schools. He brings over 20 years of experience working in Human Resources at diverse, mission-driven organizations, formerly serving as the head of HR for the Sports & Arts in Schools Foundation and in progressive leadership roles at Safe Horizon, where he served as the senior director of HR.
He holds a master’s degree in forensic psychology from the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a bachelor’s degree in psychology and philosophy from Binghamton University. Additionally, he holds SPHR and SCP certifications in HR and is a licensed trainer. Joe is also a Shotokan Karate Instructor for the Police Activity League where he holds the rank of Yodan. He resides in Brooklyn with his wife, Jill, their son James, and their dog, Venice.
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Joe is a big believer in data and technology being utilized in HR. He also says data is not about reducing employees to a number, but rather it’s about making it so people don’t get lost in the shuffle.
He tells us:
“I think the HR landscape has changed dramatically. When I first started, it was amazing. And people were really grateful for me to be able to leverage technology and data. Today, it’s absolutely an expectation in strong companies and strong organizations.
And I believe the future workforce, it’s not going to just be that the people who do systems development and data analytics are part of the technology team. Yes, you’re always going to have that. And they’re going to be providing support for the whole organization.
But today, you have kids in elementary school, learning how to code, you have people on every team who are going to be able to do things in ways that we’ve never done before. And to automate functions in your day to day tasks where people might be spending three hours doing something that could be completely automated. And you can’t have two people in your tech team do that for every department. Your departments are going to need to start building that capacity.
And that’s one of the things I really, I’ve invested in my team. And I’m really proud. They’ve developed some amazing things. I would say in all the gap areas. There’s a lot of great technology out there.”
