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Business hasn’t stopped growing in five years
By: Emily Fink
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President and Founder Nikki Ellison said one day this fall they stopped and realized they missed the milestone. She established the small business in 2004 and moved to Gretna Oct. 15 two years ago.
But the time flies by, she said.
HR Initiatives is a consulting firm that knows all the ins and outs of human resource management and helps businesses no matter the size with the aspect of people management.
Ellison started her career in human resources, but for other companies. She got her sense of business from her father, who was a mechanic and owned his own auto shop. Her father would often come home and talk about profit margins, managing expenses, the bottom line and customer service. Ellison said she never realized how her father was such a good businessman until his funeral nearly 15 years ago.
“It floored us that there was standing room only,” she said, with people their family had never met before. She now understood how her father kept a successful business going. “It was about trust. It was about their relationship.”
Ellison worked in the human resources department at other companies for 20 years before starting HR Initiatives. In that time, she also answered HR questions from family and friends on how to handle different situations.
“Their [business] was not big enough to have their own HR department, but they’ve got people. They’ve got issues,” Ellison said.
Eventually, she decided to help small businesses partly because she was tired of corporations and partly because her children were getting older. It began with a few clients. She aimed to consult from a different standpoint than the stereotypical HR perspective.
“It’s not rocket science, but it’s different from what people think HR is,” she said.
READ THE REST in the Nov. 4 issue of the Gretna Breeze.
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