As President of Capella Consultants LLC, Cheryl Patnick leads a strategic human resources consulting group dedicated to creating work environments that maximize performance.

Cheryl is a results-driven executive with extensive human resources and business expertise.  Throughout her career she has successfully integrated over 40 bank acquisitions and start-ups by actively participating in both the due diligence and integration processes. She works with executives to assimilate the culture of the new company and stabilize the top team quickly as well as effectively manage the financial aspects of the integration.  Her leadership in this field has resulted in the integration of over 11,000 employees in addition to achieving a goal of zero lawsuits regarding human resources policy and procedure implementation. 

For the past 20 years Cheryl has partnered with executive leadership teams to set a vision and change management agenda that aligns with the organization’s core values. She understands the business of HR and works with CEOs, HR directors and other executives to align talent, structure and workplace practices in support of maximum company and employee performance.  Her work in this area includes strategic manpower planning driven by organizational expansion and contraction as well as the development and delivery of management, leadership and diversity training for executive, senior and middle management.    

Cheryl’s leadership experience includes leading a team of 150 employees and managing a budget of $120MM while effectively implementing cost containment strategies and operational efficiencies that resulted in over $6.5MM in savings.  Her analytical capabilities have led to the design of workplace environments that meet or exceed “best place to work” benchmarks as well as the institution of programs that increased customer satisfaction levels from 80% to 95%.

Cheryl’s compensation and benefits experience includes representation on both the Compensation and Retirement Savings Committees of the Board of Directors. In addition to all aspects of traditional salary administration, Cheryl’s experience includes executive compensation programs with salary deferral, stock option and restricted stock features. Her benefit administration work includes design and implementation of flexible benefit plans, managed health care programs, employee stock ownership programs (ESOPs) and a variety of 401k plans.

Cheryl is the U.S. Operations consultant for zapoint and the HR Practice leader for Virtcom Consulting.   She has led HR Practice speaking engagements for Virtcom at the World Diversity Leadership Summit Thought Leaders Meeting and The Summit on Leading Diversity at Linkage Incorporated. She has also co-presented for Right Management’s “Creating a Successful Consulting Company”.  Cheryl has received the HR Person of the Year award from the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) and is a member of the Mercer County Chamber of Commerce and the National Association of Women Business Owners.  She earned a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, summa cum laude, from the University of Richmond and serves on the Advisory Board for the Center for Financial Training.