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Dearborn, MI-based Cynthia Pepper as Director of Human Resources
About the Company
Founded in 1786 and incorporated as a city in 1929, Dearborn, Michigan is the eighth largest city in the state, and the second largest city in Wayne County. More than 98,000 residents call Dearborn “home” and benefit from exceptional City services. Internationally recognized as the birthplace of Henry Ford, Dearborn is where auto and steel manufacturing, green beltways, fields of sunflowers and wildlife dwell side by side. The city is a regional center for employment, healthcare services, higher education, shopping and transportation along with outstanding cultural, environmental and visitor attractions.
About the Person
Cynthia H. Pepper is the Director of Human Resources at the City of Dearborn. Pepper has 35 years of human resources leadership and has coached several high-ranking executives and small businesses to become more successful. She also has extensive community experience as a volunteer, including a decade-long stint on the Dearborn`s Local Official Compensation Commission. Pepper is principal and founder of the Dearborn-based Pepper Consulting Group LLC, where she led organizational change, talent management and best practices in human resource programs at businesses and universities across the United States. Pepper began her career with counseling before focusing on human resources. Pepper often contributes to business issues in trade journals and on the radio. She is a contributing author to two books, one of which is "Lessons in Changing Culture: Learning from Real World Cases." Pepper spent a year at Henry Ford College, serving as interim executive director of the HFC Foundation while the college conducted a national search for the job. She was a delegate from Michigan to the 1995 White House Conference on Small Business and co-chair of the National Committee on Human Capital. She graduated from the University of Michigan with a degree in psychology, did graduate work in animal behavior at Bucknell University and counseling at Eastern Michigan University.
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