The Upstream HR Story

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And with that in mind, Erika Migliaccio gathered up her corporate experience (and her courage) to open a new door and form Upstream HR Strategies. Fueled by a fierce drive for delivering value and a passion for bringing out the best in others, Erika’s vibrant energy is contagious. “She has a magnetic effect that inspires others to reach their full potential and achieve what they never thought possible.” 

Erika is a spirited and innovative Human Resources executive with twenty years of executive HR leadership experience guiding large, multi-national teams through a variety of business cycles in both generalist and specialist roles. Combining deep business acumen, creative courage and strategic vision, Erika shatters the bounds of “traditional” Human Resources and measures success by the value she delivers to the employees and businesses she serves. “Her imagination and organizational understanding combine to create ideas - like bolts of lightning - that she not only gets started, but knows how to implement all the way.” This innovative approach - combined with her perseverance, willingness to push boundaries and heart - has driven significant business results while inspiring and engaging employees. 

Erika has two professional passions that she can’t stop talking about (for real): 

Solving the promotion puzzle

After watching too many high potential talents fail to achieve their career aspirations, Erika took matters into her own hands and created the BOLD Leadership Journey™ framework – a systematic approach to decoding the promotion puzzle for aspiring leaders. All original content, Erika has streamlined years of talent identification, development and coaching experience into a framework and process that is clear, compelling and actionable. 

Revolutionizing the reputation of the HR function

After hearing about HR Transformation from the beginning of her career and realizing that the narrative hasn’t changed in more than 20 years, Erika set out to change the course. Her unique HR Transformation framework uses a "customer value" approach that (1) defines employees, managers and leaders as customers of HR, (2) gathers unfiltered feedback to understand each group's unique needs and (3) re-designs HR service models, based on customer input, to deliver more specialized, higher quality support that recognizes and caters to the different needs of each customer segment. This proven model consistently delivers a trifecta of success - better service for internal customers, reduced cost and improved HR team satisfaction.

Erika’s professional career has taken her around the globe and back again. Over the years, she’s survived multiple corporate transformations - with her humor and fashion sense intact - and is currently living in upstate New York with her husband (and best friend) Sean Oakey, along with their two fur babies, Annie Oakey and Carrie Oakey.