Podcast # 16 - Interview with Stuart Kliman, Partner and Head of Building Industry Partner’s Center of Excellence (CoE)

Stuart Kliman serves as the newly appointed Partner and Head of Building Industry Partner’s newly formed Center of Excellence (CoE) focused on human capital management. Building Industry Partners is the leading private equity firm in the building and construction industry, focused on helping companies create value not just for their customers and shareholders, but for their most critical stakeholder, their employees. In his role Kliman’s primary focus is helping BIP’s portfolio companies and the industry-at-large create “people-first” cultures that reinforce the holistic well-being of employees and their families while at the same time deliver better business performance and bottom-line financial results.

Prior to joining BIP, Kliman was a founder and partner for 25 years at Vantage Partners, a mid-sized consulting and training organization specializing in biopharmaceuticals and healthcare. In addition to helping steer Vantage’s strategic direction and sitting on its management committee, at various times Kliman oversaw several operational functions, including human resources and marketing, and directly drove revenue for the firm.

In this episode Tracy interviews Stu Kliman- consultant to the health ecosystem turned private equity Human Capital COE leader – on the unexpected connection between his current work and enhancing overall health and wellness. Tracy and Stu explore the ever-evolving boundaries of the health industry, Building Industry Partner’s vision for enhancing health and wellness within the building and construction industry, and their belief that investing in people is not only the right thing to do- it’s also a means to achieving organizational and financial success.

Show Notes

1. Building Industry Partners, a private equity firm focused on the building sector, believes firmly that there is an inextricable link between leadership’s ability to tap into the best in people and the overall success of an organization.
2. Investing thoughtfully into an organization’s people is the right thing to do in and of itself in terms of helping enhance health and wellness through improving health benefits, increasing individual autonomy, and building financial stability and career resilience of populations. Building Industry Partner’s seeks to prove that in addition to these inherent benefits, investing meaningfully in people is a reliable method for generating world class business results.
3. Building Industry Partner’s believes there are five key criteria for defining a strong employee value proposition that translates to financial wellness – Financial Security, Career Resilience, Advancement Opportunity, Engagement, and Wellness.
4. People are the key to unlocking innovations needed to tackle today’s most complex industry challenges such as sustainability, talent attraction and retention, and responding to growing complexity within customer base.
5. When it comes to enhancing health and wellness, collaboration is the difference maker - both on the front lines in how we interface with individuals and work in teams- and more broadly in how we approach complex challenges facing the country as a whole.