Brittney Sauerwein*

HR Director — driving people strategy, leadership, and organizational performance.

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About

I’m Brittney, an HR Director at Koch Industries, based in Wichita — partnering with senior leaders to drive people strategy, leadership effectiveness, and the organizational craft in between.

Brittney Sauerwein

My work sits at the intersection of business strategy and the people who execute it — shaping leadership effectiveness, designing for organizational performance, and supporting leaders through growth, complexity, and change. My experience spans enterprise and division-level HR across private equity, manufacturing, and commercial business units, including multi-site operations and global teams. I bring a business-oriented, values-based approach grounded in Principle Based Management™.

Location
Wichita, KS
Currently
HR Director, Koch Industries
Approach
Principle Based Management™
Education
Oakland University

Selected experience

A career spent partnering with leaders to build organizations that perform and scale.

  1. Now Koch Industries

    HR Director

    Partnering with senior business leaders on people strategy, leadership development, talent planning, and organizational effectiveness across global operations.

  2. Prior HR Leadership

    Enterprise & division-level HR

    Led HR for private-equity-backed, manufacturing, and commercial business units — supporting multi-site operations and global teams through growth, complexity, and organizational change.

  3. Operating principles How I work

    People strategy the business can act on.

    Grounded in Principle Based Management™. I translate leadership intent into the structures, roles, and rhythms that let an organization actually perform and scale.

  4. Education Oakland University

    Bachelor’s degree

    Foundations in human resources, business, and organizational behavior.

Focus areas

Partnering with senior leaders on the work that helps organizations perform and scale — through growth, complexity, and change.

Contact

Let’s talk.

The best way to reach me is email. If you prefer the feed, I’m on LinkedIn and Instagram.

brittneysauerweinhr@gmail.com