Henry J. Davis, Jr. is a Human Resources Executive who has provided leadership, strategic direction, and management for diverse business units for BP and Amoco Corporation. His career there has spanned more than twenty five years.  He has led the HR function for a 12,000 employee subsidiary with 20 field HR managers, a 1,000 employee technical group comprised of engineers and chemists, and an 800 employee global marketing and engineering group.

Henry’s profound impact on BP/Amoco in recent years has involved managing and directing crisis management, employee assistance, and health programs for the Americas. He led the humanitarian assistance support to employees during hurricanes Katrina, Rita, and Wilma as well as a Texas City plant explosion and fire that involved 15 fatalities and 100 injuries.

Henry led strategic initiatives in a number of areas. He developed
• a Strategic staffing plan that was presented to the Worldwide Engineering and Construction leadership.
• a Competency based recruiting plan that was presented to the same group and to the corporate Executive team.
• an Outsourcing strategy that was presented to BP’s Sr. VP of Refining.
• Succession planning presented to the five VP’s involved directing Naperville, IL and Sunbury, England.
• Market based pay presented to corporate VPs and then to the Executive Committee headed by the CEO.

Henry has also taken key leadership roles in the employee relations and labor arena. Henry led the way negotiating the contracts with the teamsters in Chicago, Detroit, and St. Louis in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s as well as the  Steel Workers and the OCAW (Oil, Chemical, and Atomic Workers). He also was instrumental in establishing a no smoking policy and first drug and alcohol policy for a plant in the 1980’s.

Henry has also been at the fore front of developing positive diversity and inclusion programs. In the mid 1990’s, Henry provided a strategic plan for diversity to senior management that included the attraction and retention of women and minorities in higher level jobs. His early experience at Amoco was as a Territory Manager, Retail Marketing, and then as a Distribution Superintendent on the operations side of the business.

Henry’s credentials include a Bachelor of Science, Business Administration, Human Resources from the University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee) and is Certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR). He is active in the Society of Human Resources Management since 1987. From 1989 to 1998, Henry was Guest Professor and Member, Black Executive Exchange Program, Urban League. He was also was Committee Member, University of Houston, Clear Lake Advisory Committee 1994-1998.