Frey Recognized in "Female Executive of the Year

CHICAGO,  Echo Global Logistics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ECHO), a main company of technology-enabled transportation administration services, announced nowadays that Chief Human Resources Officer, Paula Frey, earned a Silver Stevie® Award in the "Female Executive of the Year" class in the seventeenth annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business. She used to be nominated in the commercial enterprise offerings quarter for organizations with extra than 2,500 employees. This award honors Frey's achievements inside Echo's HR practices that have performed a key position in the success and development of the business enterprise over the ultimate year.

 

This 12 months has introduced many businesses with unexpected challenges due to COVID-19, however beneath Frey's leadership, Echo shortly tailored to the new instances to preserve its crew contributors and commercial enterprise operations on track. With her team, she designed and carried out plans to make certain personnel continue to be engaged and related whilst working from home. For these who have chosen to return to Echo's places of work throughout the country, Frey developed protocols to make sure the security and well-being of personnel at all workplace locations.

Frey has performed an critical position in the persisted development of Echo's Diversity & Inclusion techniques to make certain a tradition and environment of mutual respect, the place employees of all backgrounds, perspectives, and competencies are empowered to attain their full potential. This is confirmed via her key position in this year's launch of many new Diversity & Inclusion initiatives at Echo.

In addition, Frey delivered severa enhancements to Echo's ordinary HR practices that in addition Echo's function as an agency of choice. Within the ultimate year, she has spearheaded the launches of an upgraded end-to-end HR system, an increased overall performance administration process, a digital new rent income education program, and more.

"Since becoming a member of Echo in 2019, Paula's management and know-how have been quintessential in developing a place of job subculture that encourages our personnel to be triumphant alongside with the company," stated Doug Waggoner, Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chief Executive Officer at Echo. "Her dedication to advancing Echo's HR practices has allowed us to always decorate the journey of our crew participants and entice pinnacle talent, even in the midst of a pandemic."

"I'm honored to acquire this prestigious recognition," stated Frey. "This award highlights the splendid work the complete Echo group does to construct and beautify our administrative center culture, and I seem ahead to our future successes."

Hailed as one of the world's premier commercial enterprise awards, the Stevie Awards for Women in Business apprehend the achievements of girls executives and entrepreneurs as properly as the agencies they run. More than 1,500 nominations from companies and men and women round the world had been submitted this 12 months for consideration in quite a number categories. Over a hundred and eighty commercial enterprise gurus working in seven specialised judging committees decided the winners.