The Ongoing Effects of COVID at Work

Today on Conflict Managed we are joined by Tracey Mebane, Human Resource Administrator & Special Projects at Lane College. We discuss the continuing effects of COVID on the workplace, adapting to change, sharing knowledge, and the importance of listening and caring for our co-workers.

Tracey has more than 20 years of experience between the field of finance, banking, and human resources. She received several awards from First Tennessee Bank, now First Horizon and Citigroup, recognizing many of her accomplishments, particularly in leadership.

In 2014 Tracey re-entered higher education at the non-profit HBCU, Lane College. Planning, directing, developing, coordinating, training, thinking strategically of the welfare of the college so that the college can continue to grow and educate is only a small part of her duties.

Tracey has been a part of some amazing projects that took Lane College from paper to electronic processing, and she contributed to other cost saving projects. She led the development of the benefits and retirement committee that gives the faculty and staff a voice in decision making regarding health insurance and retirement benefits options. She is currently leading Lane College’s retirement transformation project. Tracey facilitates wellness lunch and learns focusing on balancing all aspect of life from spiritual, to financial to wellness and more.  She previously led the team that revised the employee handbook and she sits on the president’s leadership team.

Tracey is a member of the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) and currently volunteers on the West Tennessee SHRM executive board and is on her second year as Community Outreach Director, raising over 10k for different community outreach projects in 2022. She is also a non-medical emergency volunteer for West Tennessee.

Tracey attended Airline School in Pompano, FL and worked at Memphis International after high school. She has an Associate of Applied Science in Information Technology from Jackson State Community College, a Bachelor of Science from University of Tennessee at Martin and a MBA with distinctions from Grantham University who as now joined the curriculum at the University of Arkansas.

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Conflict Managed is hosted by Merry Brown and produced by Third Party Workplace Conflict Restoration Services. Contact us at 3PConflictRestoration@gmail.com. Our music is courtesy of Dove Pilot.