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 Connie Hoffmann has had a distinguished career in both the public and private sectors. She
started her career at the City of Fort Lauderdale as a Budget Director and rose to become City Manager, a position she held for ten years during a transformative period in Fort Lauderdale’s
history. During her tenure, Fort Lauderdale helped pioneer municipal strategic visioning, employee quality initiatives, rigorous selection practices, privatization of services, and
neighborhood-level planning. She served on the board of the Florida City and County Managers Association and on the Regional ICMA advisory committee.
After 15 years in local government management, Hoffmann became a Senior
Director, then Vice President, of Human Resources and Corporate Communications with Alamo Rent A Car, an international company with over 7,000 employees. Hoffmann set up Alamo’s management development
program, modernized their selection and compensation practices, managed their employee relations and union-avoidance strategies, and served as a business partner to their Operations Division.
Before joining The Mercer Group, Hoffmann ran her own consulting firm for ten
years, assisting local governments and nonprofit organizations in strategic planning, executive selection and development, and operations performance
improvement. She frequently served as interim executive, addressing serious and difficult operational problems while helping the organization recruit a
permanent executive. She also served as the manager of a US A.I.D. project, assisting a State Governor in Mexico to prepare his state to implement a new Transparency in Governing law.
Ms. Hoffmann earned her B.A. and M.A. in Political Science at Florida Atlantic
University. She is certified in interpretation of the Myers-Briggs personality instrument, a skilled facilitator and classroom trainer, and speaks Spanish.
She is a member of SHRM and ICMA, and has served on numerous nonprofit Boards of Directors. Her areas of our consulting practice include:
- Interim Executive Services
- Strategic Planning Workshops
- Executive Coaching
- Executive Search
- Operational Performance Improvement Studies
- Cost-cutting Strategies
- Organizational Development Consulting (including Team Building Sessions, Management Training, Executive Focus and Development)
- Managerial Skill Assessment for Selection or Organizational Development purposes
- Management Strategy Development
- Modernizing HR Practices and Civil Service Governing Ordinances
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