A recent addition to NASCO, Barbara Bell-Dees is charged with formulating the company's strategy for ongoing human asset management, including associate recruitment and retention. She is focusing on developing NASCO's major competitive differentiator - its people and high-performing teams - ensuring that associates have the tools they need to continue excelling.

Barbara has nearly twenty years of experience in human resource management and administration. Most recently, she was a Client Service Manager at Paychex with oversight for the Georgia, California, and North Carolina markets. Her team successfully transitioned clients to using their services and product offerings. They also provided ongoing customer service support, conducted customer satisfaction assessments, and managed customer retention activities.

A former EDS associate, Barbara spent 16 years with the company, the first of which were in human resources roles of increasing accountability. In her last four years with the company, she served as a Strategic Business Partner for the Midwest, Northeast, and Southeast regions covering an employee base of over 1000. In this capacity, Barbara was responsible for integrating multiple corporate human resources disciplines and initiatives, and coordinating them to meet the specific market needs of the three regions she supported in order to align with overall corporate HR strategies and targets.

Barbara attended DeKalb Community College and received The Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) Professional Human Resources Certification from Kennesaw State College in Kennesaw, Georgia.

Barbara is passionate about fitness, SEC football, and tailgating at Atlanta Falcons home games. She and her husband of over 25 years reside in Cumming, Georgia.