Meet the Workforce Solutions Team
Experts in Building Your Dream Team
Our Workforce Solutions team at The Arnold Group (TAG) is a dynamic group of professionals dedicated to helping your business thrive. Each member brings a wealth of knowledge and a passion for driving workforce excellence.
Phillip M. Hayes
Vice President
The Arnold Group (TAG) is a human resource company providing Recruiting/Staffing, Executive Search/Talent Acquisition, and Workforce Solutions. As a principal owner, Hayes provides company leadership as well as engages with clients to strengthen their HR programs, objectives, goals, and effectiveness by delivering tailored workforce solutions. With an undergrad in HR Management and a Masters in Management Information Systems, coupled with 20+ years of business and HR experience, he’s been recognized as the Wichita and the Kansas HR Professional of the Year.
Phil remains active in legislative priorities pertaining to state HR policy and specifically in the unemployment arena as he was appointed to serve on the Kansas Employment Security Board of Review; the Kansas Unemployment Compensation Modernization & Improvement Council; and the Kansas Workers Compensation and Unemployment Review Board Nominating Committee. Most recently, Phil was awarded the Father Becker Award at the 2023 UWC National Unemployment Insurance Conference regarding his major contributions to UI research and transformative impact in the state of Kansas.
Heather Poorman
HR Business Partner
As an HR Business Partner, Heather serves as a collaborative HR advisor offering professional guidance, support and expertise by partnering with clients and stakeholders to effectively help manage their workforce challenges while saving them valuable research time, reducing costly external legal fees, ensuring compliance obligations and mitigating risk. With her extensive background in employee benefits and compensation, Heather is committed to helping organizations move their HR strategy forward with the professionalism and service expected from a true HR business partner.
With an undergrad in Business Management, a Masters in Conflict Resolutions & Dispute Management, Mini Masters in Public Administration and over 25 years of Human Resources experience, she brings expertise from both public and private sectors as well as from small and large organizations.
