Heather Gatley

Heather Gatley is the Director at Goodwill South Florida. Heather has over fifteen years of experience in the Human Resources field. Heather has held previous positions at AlphaStaff, where they were the Executive Vice President of Services and General Counsel, and Ryder System, Inc.

Gatley has extensive experience in leading acquisitions and assimilations, developing new products and services, and guiding both field and corporate HR staff. Heather has also supervised L&E counseling, charges, and litigation for over 70,000 employees. During their time at AlphaStaff, they successfully led the acquisition under tight time constraints of a competitor, which increased profits by $16M.

Heather also opened new territories and increased revenues by $150M. In addition, they created a program to identify, monitor satisfaction, and retain the most profitable clients, which resulted in the highest retention rates in the industry. Gatley was also instrumental in managing the sale of the company to a private equity group, which yielded a ROI of over 40% for the initial investors.

Finally, they built national HR and Employment Law capabilities by creating a model and product platform for the industry’s first national accounts division. This division was responsible for securing Niagara Bottling and Bank of America Merchant Services, which added 25,000 worksite employees - representing 40% of AlphaStaff’s total revenues.

Heather Gatley completed their high school education at Harborfields HS. Heather then went on to study Speech Communications at Penn State University, where they obtained their BS. After that, they attended the University of Florida - Fredric G. Levin College of Law, where they obtained their JD with High Honors. Finally, they received certification from the Florida Bar in Florida Bar Admission and from Martindal Hubbell in Rated AV.