Kimberly Pleva

Kimberly Pleva serves as a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Management & Marketing at the Williamson College of Business Administration, Youngstown State University. With over a decade of academic service since 2011, she progressed from Part-time Instructor to Lecturer and now Senior Lecturer, leveraging 15 years of Fortune 250 HR leadership experience from Parker Hannifin in her teaching.

Her educational background includes:

• 2005: MBA from Youngstown State University
• 2000: BS in Business Administration from Youngstown State University

Ms. Pleva's expertise spans strategic human capital management, with core specializations in:

• Human Resources strategy and implementation
• Organizational Behavior and culture development
• Employee and labor relations systems
• Talent acquisition and workforce planning
• Compensation structures and performance management
• Training program design and leadership development

Her industry experience in global motion and control technologies directly informs her academic practice. Ms. Pleva has earned exceptional recognition including the 2025 Distinguished Professor of Teaching award and six consecutive SHRM Superior Merit Awards (2020-2025) as faculty advisor, alongside Ohio HR Games podium finishes in 2022 (2nd) and 2018 (3rd).

She actively mentors students through the SHRM chapter and competitive HR teams, while serving on the Kinsman Free Public Library Board and contributing as a McGraw Hill textbook reviewer. Her professional engagement extends through continuous membership in SHRM since 2000.