{"id":36868,"date":"2026-10-14T22:59:05","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T22:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=36868"},"modified":"2026-10-14T22:59:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T22:59:06","slug":"metropolitan-airports-commission-promotes-alison-kelly-nicole-kiefer-to-human-resources-leadership-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/news\/airports\/metropolitan-airports-commission-promotes-alison-kelly-nicole-kiefer-to-human-resources-leadership-roles\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan Airports Commission Promotes Alison Kelly, Nicole Kiefer to Human Resources Leadership Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) has promoted Alison Kelly and Nicole Kiefer to senior leadership roles within the Human Resources and Labor Relations department. Kelly is now the director of labor relations and total rewards and Kiefer is now the director of talent acquisition, development and engagement.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" src=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alison-Kelly-L-and-Nicole-Kiefer-R.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-36869\" style=\"width:312px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alison-Kelly-L-and-Nicole-Kiefer-R.jpg 600w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Alison-Kelly-L-and-Nicole-Kiefer-R-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>The MAC has promoted Alison Kelly (L) and Nicole Kiefer (R) to human resources leadership roles. Courtesy of the Metropolitan Airports Commission.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHaving Alison and Nicole in these leadership roles positions our team to better support the MAC&#8217;s workforce following our recent growth,\u201d said Kathy Megarry, vice president of human resources and labor relations at the MAC. \u201cThey bring complementary expertise and strong relationships that will help us continue to attract and develop talented employees. Their leadership will strengthen our approach to labor relations, compensation practices, benefits and employee engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As director of labor relations and total rewards, Kelly will lead the MAC\u2019s labor strategy and represent the MAC in union contract negotiations. She will also oversee the MAC\u2019s benefits programs and will co-chair the organization\u2019s compensation committee that is focused on maintaining consistent pay practices across union and non-union employees.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kelly joined the MAC in 2024 as the labor and employee relations manager responsible for 13 collective bargaining agreements that cover approximately half of the MAC\u2019s workforce. During her career, Kelly has negotiated more than 60 collective bargaining agreements and previously served as labor relations manager for Ramsey County. She holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in psychology from Augsburg University and a master\u2019s degree in psychotherapy from Adler Graduate School.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In her new role as director of talent acquisition, development and engagement, Kiefer will lead hiring, onboarding and enterprise learning and development, as well as employee engagement and workplace culture initiatives. She will oversee the HR business partner team that supports MAC departments and will co-chair the compensation committee with Kelly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kiefer has worked at the MAC for more than 24 years, most recently serving as assistant director of human resources. During that time, she has helped shape the MAC\u2019s approach to compensation and employee relations. She holds a bachelor\u2019s degree in industrial and organizational psychology from Minnesota State University, Mankato, and a master\u2019s degree in human resource management from Concordia University-St. Paul.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Metropolitan Airports Commission (MAC) has promoted Alison Kelly and Nicole Kiefer to senior leadership roles within the Human Resources and Labor Relations department. Kelly is now the director of labor relations and total rewards and Kiefer is now the director of talent acquisition, development and engagement. \u201cHaving Alison and Nicole in these leadership roles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[33,46],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airports","category-minnesota"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36868"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36868\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36870,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36868\/revisions\/36870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}