Experienced people, directly engaged in the work.

Robert “Bob” Braun is a labor relations and personnel management practitioner with more than 50 years of experience resolving complex workplace and organizational issues. He has negotiated in excess of 500 labor agreements in public and private settings, achieving settlements in most matters and advancing employer goals when negotiations reached impasse, strike, arbitration, or stalemate.

His background includes 15 years in corporate labor relations leadership for a national food company. Across his consulting and corporate career, Bob has addressed successorship, mergers and acquisitions, benefits, compensation systems, personnel policy, strategic planning, dispute resolution, and matters involving state and federal labor agencies.

Bob is especially skilled at entering situations where relationships have deteriorated, systems are incomplete, or an employer needs a practical path through competing operational, labor, financial, and legal demands.

Jessica Neill is a senior public-sector HR and labor relations leader with 19 years of experience in complex, unionized, public-facing organizations. Before joining BCG, she led HR functions for Washington cities and county government, advising executives, elected officials, department leaders, employees, labor partners, and legal counsel.

Her work spans collective bargaining, employee relations, investigations, compensation and classification, benefits strategy, leave and accommodation, policy, HRIS, workforce planning, organizational change, employee engagement, and leadership coaching.

Jessica’s approach is grounded in curiosity, clarity, fairness, and practical partnership. She is particularly effective when an organization needs to stabilize HR operations, address a high-stakes concern, improve inconsistent systems, or build stronger infrastructure.