Michelle Quint
Vice President & Associate Vice Chancellor, Human Resources UCI Health
Seminars
Thursday 25th June 2026
Discover: Redesigning HR Delivery Under Financial Pressure: How a Tiered Operating Model at UC Irvine Is Reducing Cost, Eliminating Redundancy, and Strengthening HR Resilience
9:00 am
- Redesigning HR service delivery across a highly decentralized university in response to sustained budget pressure by using opportunistic centralization, shared service pilots, and vacancy controls to reduce duplication, improve governance, and stabilize HR operations without top-down mandates.
- Delivering early, tangible financial impact by identifying extreme redundancy within units, including 17 HR FTEs in a single division, and projecting the elimination of at least three roles, representing an estimated $300k+ in annual cost savings once fully implemented, while preventing replacement hiring through targeted freezes and structural reviews.
- Building a more scalable and lower risk HR operating model through tiered service levels that centralize transactional work such as onboarding and payroll, retain light touch HR support within units, and escalate compliance and risk heavy issues to central HR, improving service quality, consistency, and workforce sustainability amid ongoing fiscal constraint
Thursday 25th June 2026
Develop: How Can HR Reduce Complexity Without Creating New Risk?
10:00 am
- Where does decision overload show up most clearly in HR operating models today?
- How do unclear ownership, manual work, and fragmented processes increase risk even when costs are reduced?
- What decisions should be standardised, automated, or governed centrally versus deliberately left local?
- How do leaders know when simplification has gone too far?
