Thea Reigler

In heading up our human resources team, Thea oversees the design and implementation of solutions that promote people and ensures the continued excellence of staff at all National Heritage Academies (NHA) schools.

In her current role at NHA, Thea develops and implements human resource metrics reporting and analysis, which includes cost per hire, recruiter efficiency, and benefits per full time employee. During her tenure at NHA she has grown employees in our organization at more than 80 schools in nine states, serving more than 56,000 children, and improved turnover of teachers nationally.

Previously, as the vice president of human resources for a leading health system, Thea played a leadership role in successfully growing her organization from a staff of 4,000 to more than 20,000 people; this included executive leadership in hiring and development, as well as the creation of succession plans to support career growth and business change. During her tenure there, she successfully completed more than forty mergers and acquisitions.

At NHA, Thea has established the organization’s core values and designed an execution strategy to embed into all talent management practices. She has developed a comprehensive five-year people strategy to support, selection, development, engagement, performance, and improvement.

In addition, she has introduced talent calibration to drive succession and performance clarity. This initiative has increased NHA performance by several percentage points collectively across the organization.

She has realigned the engagement strategy to tie to strategic key business drivers and implemented a new model to promote proactive action planning. Current results exceed national benchmarks. Currently, Thea is implementing a paid time off pilot for 10 schools and 20 control group schools in an effort to design total reward strategies which have greater perceived value for staff.

Always growing personally and professionally, Thea currently serves as a board member for the HRG (Human Resources’ Group) and is a member of several external committees to promote active support for underprivileged women and children. She has spoken at numerous human resources conferences and continues to find time to serve the community.