Vice President of Human Resources
Lydia M. Theunissen, SPHR

Lydia Theunissen is the Vice President of Human Resources at Dimensions International, Inc. (DI). Ms. Theunissen has executive responsibility and authority for all functions of personnel and benefits management, including policy development and documentation, progressive discipline procedures, compensation systems and salary administration programs, benefits and retirement programs, employee communications and training, employee relations, recruiting support, and approval for all hiring and termination decisions.

Ms. Theunissen is responsible for keeping abreast of current topics in labor law as well as benefits, retirement, and health care options and reform and implementing programs that conform with the current business climate, for managing the salary administration program and the Service Contract Act program, chairing the Benefits Committee, and researching and presenting the impact of various laws and regulations on the operations of the company to other corporate managers. She provides corporate guidance, on an on-going basis, on legal, managerial, and staff development issues to DI’s Management Board, Technical Directors, and Program Managers.

Ms. Theunissen has more than twenty-five years experience managing all aspects of human resources for multisite, international government contractors. In 1996, she was awarded lifetime certification as a Senior Practitioner in Human Resources by the Human Resources Certification Institute of the Society for Human Resources Management.

For ten years, Ms. Theunissen was an elected Subscriber Director of the Board of Directors of the George Washington University Health Plan. During this time, she served as Chairperson for bimonthly Grievance Hearings, member of Quality Oversight Committee, and member of Executive Committee.

Ms. Theunissen graduated summa cum laude, earning a BA with major emphases in Political Science and English and a minor emphasis in Economics, from Mount Saint Mary’s College in Emmitsburg, Maryland. She holds an MBA from the George Washington University with a concentration in Business, Economics, and Public Policy and a certificate in Workplace Mediational Conflict Resolution from the Northern Virginia Mediation Service. She has attended numerous continuing education courses and seminars from a wide spectrum of educational institutions and organizations, including the American Management Association, Society for Human Resources Management, and Walt Disney World.

Ms. Theunissen is an active member of the Society for Human Resources Management, Executive Women’s Roundtable, and Women of Washington.