Presenter Information

Jennifer C. Loftus is a Founding Partner of and National Director for Astron Solutions.

Her primary areas of expertise are the design, administration, and analysis of customized market surveys, employee opinion surveys, and exit interview systems. Jennifer also focuses on the development, design, and implementation of base pay compensation systems, primarily as they impact healthcare, non-profit, and small to moderate sized organizations. Jennifer also has extensive experience in the creation of technology-based solutions to human resource issues. Jennifer has fifteen years of compensation and Human Resources generalist experience.

Prior to Astron, Jennifer was an Associate Consultant with the Metro New York Rewards consulting practice of the Hay Group, a worldwide leader in compensation consulting services. In addition to the Hay Group, Jennifer garnered experience at organizations including Parsons Brinckerhoff, Eagle Electric Manufacturing Company, Pace University, and Harcourt General. Her past experience has focused on total cash compensation management, FLSA compliance, performance management design, ADP payroll, training, human resource process automation, and HRIS improvement.

Jennifer is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) and WorldatWork. Jennifer is an active member of SHRM's Total Rewards Special Expertise Panel. She is also a member of HR/NY and the New York Compensation Association. Jennifer holds the positions of HR/NY President and Certification Committee Co-Chair. She is also an active member of HR/NY's Finance, Executive, Leadership Continuity, Holiday Party, and Career Planning & Professional Development Committees. She is a volunteer article reviewer for WorldatWork and SHRM, and a subject matter expert to the Holmes Corporation and HRCI on the SHRM Learning System.

Jennifer is a sought-after speaker on topics regarding employee retention strategies, labor market trends, and human resource automation. She has appeared on Cold Pizza, ESPN2's morning show, CBS2 News, New York City's CBS affiliate, BusinessWeek TV: Money Talk, a nationally syndicated program on ABC, and WNET, New York City's PBS affiliate, on The Employment Channel. Jennifer has presented at the national SHRM, SHRM Staffing Management, ASHHRA, CUPA-HR, and Non-Profit HR Solutions conferences. She has presented to other regional and local HR groups including but not limited to HR Southwest, Association of Healthcare Human Resource Administrators (AHHRA - NYC), Texas State Human Resource Association, Acadiana Society for Human Resource Management, Central New York Society for Human Resource Management, the Business Council of New York State, HR/NY, PANO, and New York City Cultural Institutions Group. HR Now, The American Economist, Inside HR/NY, and Workspan, the magazine of WorldatWork, have published Jennifer's articles. A variety of publications have quoted Jennifer, including but not limited to New York Daily News, Time Out New York, HR Magazine, ABCNews.com, Cosmopolitan, Business and Legal Reports' Best Practices in Compensation and Benefits, HRM Magazine Moscow, Orlando Sentinel, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Nashua Telegraph, Miami Today, Entrepreneur, and YahooHotJobs.com. WCCM 1490 AM radio interviewed Jennifer for a live radio broadcast. Jennifer has an MBA in Human Resource Management from Pace University and a BS in Accounting from Rutgers University. The Pace University chapter of Omicron Delta Epsilon awarded Jennifer the chapter's first annual Alumni Achievement Award. Jennifer is an Adjunct Professor in Human Resources at Pace University.