Representative experience

Credible support when the work is complex and the outcome counts.

These examples include Braun Consulting Group engagements and prior agency leadership experience of the proposed team. The source is identified for each example.

Braun Consulting Group engagement | Robert Braun

Public-agency compensation system redesign

Need: A Washington county faced employee distrust and a widespread belief that compensation decisions were based on favoritism rather than job responsibilities.
Work: BCG established an independent comparable-worth review process, evaluated positions, negotiated the program with three unions, and helped develop a comprehensive pay grid, adoption resolutions, and a process for reviewing changed positions.
Outcome / value: A more credible, transparent compensation structure and greater agency control over the budgetary impact of wages.

Braun Consulting Group engagement | Robert Braun

Police labor agreement and relationship repair

Need: A Washington city was struggling with police morale, public labor conflict, deteriorated trust, and difficulty reaching a labor agreement within budget.
Work: BCG worked across bargaining, communication, relationship repair, and the operational and financial issues underlying the dispute.
Outcome / value: Progress toward an agreement, improved trust and morale, and a more workable labor-management relationship.

Prior public-agency leadership | Jessica Neill

Multi-union health plan redesign

Need: A self-insured county health plan required substantial structural and cost changes while maintaining workforce trust across 16 bargaining units.
Work: Jessica led a labor-management committee through plan analysis and redesign, including employee cost sharing, a spousal surcharge, a specialty-drug carve-out, and movement toward an HSA-based model.
Outcome / value: Agreement on significant changes while preserving valued benefits and creating an approach for ongoing annual oversight.

Prior public-agency leadership | Jessica Neill

Stalled police negotiations and illegal work stoppage

Need: Police negotiations had been stalled for two years, and a separate illegal work stoppage required an immediate, credible response.
Work: Jessica completed a four-year Police Association agreement and coordinated the management response that restored operations during the work stoppage.
Outcome / value: Employees returned to work within one day without grievances, followed by a sustainable labor agreement after a prolonged impasse.

Braun Consulting Group experience | Robert Braun

HR policy and infrastructure from the ground up

Need: Public and private organizations lacked foundational personnel policies, clear HR administration, and systems suited to their operations.
Work: BCG drafted personnel policies, clarified responsibilities, and designed compensation, benefit, and employee-relations practices aligned with each organization.
Outcome / value: Practical HR foundations that improved consistency, management capability, compliance, and day-to-day decisions.

Braun Consulting Group engagement | Jessica Neill

Senior-level workplace investigation

Need: A Washington public college required an independent investigation involving a senior-level reporting relationship and sensitive institutional dynamics.
Work: Jessica developed the investigation plan, reviewed evidence, conducted interviews, and applied a structured, bias-aware process attentive to confidentiality, due process, governance, and stakeholder complexity.
Outcome / value: An independent factual record and a clear, well-supported basis for institutional decision making.

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