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Phil Varnak & Assoc.
Good managers are made, not born.

Philip A. Varnak is a human resource management consultant with over 40 years experience working with federal agencies. Most of that experience is as a federal manager working for the Department of the Interior's Bureau of Reclamation and several medical centers within the Department of Veteran's Affairs. He served as Human Resource Director for two VA Medical Centers, Pittsburgh and Denver. Phil has led the consulting firm of Phil Varnak Associates, Inc. since his retirement from the Department of the Interior in 1997.

Phil's background is in all aspects of federal human resources management, although labor and employee relations were his specialties over the last 12 years with the Bureau of Reclamation. He was responsible for overseeing the administration of 34 labor management contracts with six national unions and implementing all aspects of the agency-wide employee relations program.

He graduated from the University of West Virginia with a degree in education and received an advanced diploma in health care administration from the Armed Forces Graduate School. He is an experienced mediator and facilitator, has been a guest lecturer for the University of Denver, continues to provide training courses for Federal agencies, and is internationally certified as a Senior Professional In Human Resources (SPHR) by the Society for Human Resources Management. He is qualified to administer the Myers-Briggs Type Inventory (MBTI) and has four other books published, The Bargaining Book, Employee Relations for Supervisors and Managers, The Desktop Guide to Unfair Labor Practices, and Labor Relations for Supervisors and Managers.

Phil is available to present courses for organizations (labor or management).