Kari-Lyn A. Lannert is the Director of Human Resources for Odyssey Hotels. Kari-Lyn has a BA in Communication from Mount Mary University. While working as a manager for a luxury retail brand, she found that she enjoyed interviewing candidates, running payroll, and handling employee relation issues. She pursued a career in Human Resources in 2017 and since then exceled in her roles from HR Assistant to HR Generalist, managing 3 HR Assistants, she solved recruitments challenges, streamlined onboarding procedures, developed and implemented internship programs throughout the company, updated safety procedures including Lock Out, Tag Out policies, and updated training documents. In 2020, Kari-Lyn maintained the workforce of over 200 employees for an essential company, writing and rewriting policies to keep the employees safe and healthy. In 2021, she took on the role of Director of Human Resources at the company and in that role Kari-Lyn focused on the professional and personal growth of her team, teaching them leadership skills, helping them identify their strength and weaknesses and providing them resources to help with their career development.