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Experienced Leadership for Complex People Decisions

Our HR leaders bring decades of experience across global, U.S., and multi-state workforces, including compliance, employee relations, organizational transformation, M&A, leadership development, and regulated industries. When you engage Best Practices HR, you work directly with experienced professionals—not a rotating service desk.

Global experience

Active in global HR since 1996

Multi-state capability

Shawn, Jeanette, and Keri support workforces across state lines

Direct access

The leaders doing the work are the leaders you speak with

Shawn Ellert, MS, Founder and Principal Consultant at Best Practices HR

Shawn Ellert, MS

Founder & Principal Consultant

Global & Multi-State HR · Compliance · Employee Relations · Organizational Leadership

Shawn has been active in global human resources since 1996, bringing decades of experience across HR leadership, employee relations, compliance, organizational development, talent strategy, and workforce operations. Her background includes more than 12 years of HR experience in the United States, along with extensive experience supporting multi-state workforces.

  • Active in global human resources since 1996
  • More than 12 years of U.S. HR experience
  • Multi-state workforce management, compliance, and employee relations
  • MS, Organizational Leadership — Purdue University · SHRM member
Keri Colson, MBA, Senior HR Consultant at Best Practices HR

Keri Colson, MBA

Senior HR Consultant

Multi-State HR · Organizational Development · Culture · M&A

Keri helps organizations grow, change, and move through disruption without losing the people who make progress possible. With more than 15 years of strategic and multi-state HR experience, she works at the intersection of culture, organizational development, leadership behavior, and business transformation.

  • Multi-state HR leadership for complex and growing organizations
  • Shapes people strategies for startups, acquisitions, turnarounds, and high-growth organizations
  • Guides M&A due diligence, culture integration, and organizational change
  • MBA, Human Resources Management · Certified Executive Life Coach · SHRM member
Zachariah Ellert, MSA, Accounting and Finance Consultant at Best Practices HR

Zachariah Ellert, MSA

Accounting & Finance Consultant

Financial Services · Nonprofit Finance · Internal Controls · Multi-Entity Accounting

Zachariah brings order, accuracy, and insight to the financial information leaders depend upon. His experience spans financial services, nonprofit organizations, and multi-entity accounting, including leadership-level responsibility for financial reporting, reconciliations, budgeting, month-end close, internal controls, audit readiness, and financial process improvement.

  • Financial-services, nonprofit, and multi-entity accounting experience
  • GAAP reporting, reconciliations, budgeting, and month-end close
  • Internal controls, audit readiness, and financial-process improvement
  • MS, Accounting — Ball State University · CPA candidate — expected 2027
Jeanette Jones, MPA, Senior HR Consultant at Best Practices HR

Jeanette Jones, MPA

Senior HR Consultant

Multi-State HR · Compliance · Employee Relations · HR Strategy · Health Plan Design & Development

Jeanette brings calm, clarity, and seasoned judgment to HR situations where the stakes are high. Drawing on more than 30 years of leadership and multi-state HR experience, she helps organizations solve employee-relations challenges, strengthen managers, reduce compliance risk, and build people practices that withstand growth and change.

  • More than 30 years of experienced, multi-state HR leadership
  • Navigates complex employee-relations, compliance, and workforce challenges
  • Designs and develops health plans aligned with workforce and organizational needs
  • Led a first Department of Labor audit resulting in findings of full compliance
  • MPA and BS — Ball State University · Award-winning HR leader

Credentials & affiliations

SHRM members

Active members of the Society for Human Resource Management.

Established 2020

An independent, founder-led HR advisory firm based in Central Indiana and serving multi-state employers.

Decades of experience

Global, U.S., and multi-state HR leadership across regulated, high-growth, and mission-driven sectors.