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Wise Consulting's unique advantage is our extensive experience in the Human Resource and Payroll fields -- both as consultants and practitioners in the corporate environment. Many of our staff have performed these functions for some of the region's largest corporations.

This in-depth experience means we analyze your situation with insight. Less time is spent learning the human resource and payroll functions within your company and more time is devoted to creating quality solutions. Costly errors are avoided. It all adds up to expert advice and a smooth project.

The Wise Consulting management group likewise brings extensive industry and business experience to our organization and to our clients. Our associates bring in-depth experience, diverse backgrounds, and genuine care to their engagements. We are committed to providing an environment where individuals can discover and fulfill their passion, and contribute their talent and creativity, in support of our company mission.

Management Team

• Jennifer Wise, SPHR, Founder & President
• Janet Ladd, SPHR, Vice President
• Chris Davies, CPP, Director, Payroll Consulting Services
• Dave Burkitt, National Director, Sales & Marketing
• Marta Williams, CPP, UltiPro® Services Manager
• Gail Wham, CPP, Payroll Consulting Services Manager

Jennifer Wise
Jennifer Wise, SPHR founded Wise Consulting Associates, Inc. in 1996 First as a CPA and then as a consultant in Human Resource (HR)/Payroll technology, Jennifer worked with many outstanding organizations seeking to automate their HR/Payroll function. Too frequently, however, individual HR/Payroll managers struggled to communicate their needs to “IT-types” and get the most from their systems. Seeing this, Jennifer developed the vision for Wise Consulting Associates. By combining functional and technical experience, our consultants successfully bridge this communication gap, raising expectations and producing results.

Jennifer served on SHRM’s Technology Special Expertise Panel for five years. She is a frequent speaker at meetings of SHRM (Society for Human Resource Management) and APA (American Payroll Association). In 2007, Jennifer was awarded the Special Leadership Award for Entrepreneurship from the YWCA of Greater Baltimore. Jennifer holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Kent State University.

Prior to Wise Consulting, Jennifer held leadership positions at the Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) and The Hunter Group. In her consulting career, she had the opportunity to work with Legg Mason, ArcelorMittal Steel, Compaq Singapore, EG & G, among others.

This experience benefits Wise Consulting today through broad and long-term industry and vendor interaction. Jennifer’s past hands-on experience, as well as her continuing involvement at a national level, is the foundation for the direction and leadership Jennifer provides to the organization.

Janet Ladd
Janet Ladd, SPHR is Wise Consulting’s Vice President. Janet’s leadership and senior-level HR experience bring an added dimension to Wise’s service offerings. She has over 20 years of human resource management experience involving employment, training and development, compensation/benefits plan design and administration, performance management, employee relations and HRMS consultation, implementation and management.

Janet brings strong project management, a solid understanding of human resource practices and a strategic perspective to projects. She has led most of Wise’s new business initiatives, including our highly successful and long-term UltiPro® practice, Talent Management vendor selection/implementation service offering, and Wise’s business process reengineering (BPR) services.

Prior to joining Wise in 1998, Janet was Director, Human Resources with a Maryland-based IT firm; Manager, Corporate Human Resources & Compensation for a national homebuilding/financial services organization; and Practice Manager/HRIS Consultant with an international human resource management systems consulting firm.

A frequent speaker at both the national and regional level on topics related to HR’s strategic role in the organization, Janet holds a BA Degree in Human Resource Management from Towson State University and an MS Degree in Applied Behavioral Science from Johns Hopkins University.

Chris Davies
Chris Davies, CPP is the Director, Payroll Consulting Services. Chris’ responsibilities span Wise’s Outsourcing/Managed Payroll, Ceridian Technical, and Implementation services.

Chris’ unique perspective comes from nearly 20 years’ corporate payroll management experience. This hands’ on experience, combined with the broad exposure to Wise’s varied client base, enables Chris to guide the Wise Payroll Services team to deliver accurate, compliant payroll results.

Prior to joining Wise Consulting in 1999, Chris was Payroll Director for a specialty healthcare management organization that was acquired by Magellan Healthcare. Chris is an active member of the American Payroll Association.

Dave Burkitt
Dave Burkitt is Wise Consulting’s National Director, Sales and Marketing. With over 15 years of HR/Payroll technology sales and marketing experience, Dave brings a varied background of several markets including: payroll, time & labor, learning management, outsourcing, HR/benefits and professional services. Dave's in-depth background in the HR/payroll industry, and his experience with large, multi-national organizations, helps Wise Consulting to better understand a marketplace that faces constant change and pressure to optimize both human and financial capital.

Prior to joining Wise Consulting, Dave was Senior Director for Convergys Employee Care. In this role, he led a team focusing on Global HRBPO to large employers. His team was responsible for annual revenue of over $100M.

Dave’s other past positions include Vice President, Sales for Cedar Group, a leading management and IT consultancy for Human Resources, and Vice President of Sales for ThinQ Learning Solutions. While in these roles, Dave was responsible for managing all North American consulting/software sales and business alliances. Dave has also held strategic selling roles within both Kronos and Ceridian.

Dave received a Bachelors of Business Administration in Marketing degree from Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland.

Marta Williams
Marta Williams has nearly twenty years’ experience in the banking, financial and payroll/accounting areas. In addition to this functional knowledge, she has managed the HRIS at two of her prior organizations as well as directed in-house conversion efforts.

Prior to joining Wise in 1998, Marta held positions including Financial Systems Programmer/Analyst, Assistant Vice-President/Payroll Manager, and Personnel Director and Accounting Officer.

Marta oversees Wise Consulting’s UltiPro® services division and brings outstanding payroll/benefits/general ledger (GL) functional knowledge to her projects. Prior to her management appointment, Marta acted as Project Manager or Lead Payroll Consultant in all of her implementation assignments, where she assisted clients in analyzing their existing payroll, benefits and general ledger requirements and identified and recommended feasible solutions for specific company environments.

Marta brings strong consensus building and facilitation skills to her projects. In addition to consulting on specific system setup, Marta has played a key role in developing and delivering various training courses. She has also assisted organizations with complex report setup using the Cognos Impromptu and Microsoft Access tools.

Gail Wham
Gail Wham, CPP, Payroll Consulting Services Manager, joined Wise Consulting in 2006. Prior to joining Wise Consulting, Ms. Wham was Department Manager/Payroll for MBNA (Bank of America) in Wilmington, Delaware . In this role, Wham was responsible for a payroll of over $1.5 billion that covered in excess of 22,000 employees. In an organization as dynamic as MBNA, this role was key for successfully implementing strategic compensation and policy initiatives. Ms. Wham was with MBNA for over 12 years.

Gail has a tremendous track record of strategic, large organization management experience. Her practical and proven methods for addressing issues from compliance to operational excellence further enhance Wise Consulting's total payroll outsourcing and technology support service offerings. Gail brings a mix of strategic thinking and tactical know-how to our clients.