As Principal Partner of Frontline HR Solutions, Mike Perkins has been providing expert guidance and solutions to employer and employee clients for over 30 years.  A top-rated attorney and SHRM Senior Certified Professional, Mike applies a unique combination of legal, HR/labor relations and conflict resolution experience and skills to help Frontline clients solve their toughest challenges.  In addition to proactive training and counseling, Mike specializes in “firefighting”- helping employers with urgent matters like workplace threat mitigation, responding to union organizing efforts, discrimination and harassment investigations, safety issues, large ramp-ups and ramp-downs, drug and alcohol issues, internal dispute resolution, employee lawsuits and government agency inquiries.

A graduate of the University of Alabama, Mike started his professional career in communications as a television reporter, press secretary and working in political campaigns.  After attending law school at the Florida State University College of Law, Mike became an attorney and shareholder in the respected Clark, Partington, Hart law firm in Pensacola, Florida, where he built a successful employment law and litigation practice.  From there, Mike served as Vice President, Chief Operating Office and General Counsel of Landrum Human Resource Companies, a leading regional professional employer organization (PEO).  Mike later went on to become the Corporate Employee Relations Manager for Progress Rail, a Caterpillar company with over 8,000 employees and 120 locations worldwide.  At Progress Rail, Mike managed employee and labor relations and oversaw the company’s ethics and compliance hotline, and all internal ethics and employment-related investigations.  Mike transitioned from Progress Rail to start Frontline HR Solutions in 2019.

Mike’s most significant formative and educational experience came in an unusual manner.  From 2006-2013, Mike and his wife, Kim, took a “service break” and served as live-in houseparents at the Big Oak Boys Ranch in Gadsden, Alabama.  There, Mike and Kim were the primary emotional, physical and spiritual supporters, encouragers and role-models for eighteen “at-risk” young men aged 8-18.  This experience has helped Mike more effectively communicate with people from all walks of life.

Mike and Frontline provide strategic, prompt and discreet solutions and support for clients facing today’s complex issues.  He emphasizes proactive education, training, and compliance as preferred solutions over confrontation and litigation.  He has worked with business owners, board members, trusted advisors and employees in all types of businesses and non-profits including manufacturing, professional, charitable, religious, retail, logistics, services, transportation and health care. Without a doubt, Mike says his greatest accomplishments and blessings are his 38 year marriage to Kim, their extended Boys Ranch family, and their grown children who are all happily married, employed and paying their own bills.

Frontline HR is pleased to partner with Dr. Colby Jubenville to deliver high-level training and coaching for leaders from the C-Suite to the production floor.  At his core, Colby is a coach who uses the obstacles and challenges people face in search of achievement as “teachable moments” that help make sense of their life, work, and relationships and help them develop into stronger, more effective leaders.

Colby utilizes Narrative Based Coaching and Harrison Assessments to help leaders develop their unique perspective, education, and experience grounded in the belief that if you want “more,” the first thing you must have “more” of is yourself.  He emphasizes developing Emotional Intelligence (EI), and refers to it as “the intersection of personal brands and personal relationships.”  Jubenville is certified in Harrison Assessments, EQ-i 2.0 and EQI-360 (MHS) and Cylient’s Coaching In the Moment program.

Dr. Jubenville holds an academic appointment as a Professor at Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) and is the Director of the Center for Student Coaching and Success. He is the author of two books including Zebras and Cheetahs: How to Look Different and Stay Agile to Survive the Business Jungle (Wiley) and Me: How To Sell Who You Are, What You Do & Why You Matter to the World.  Jubenville has published over 50 peer-reviewed, professional, and trade articles.  He writes for The Forbes Coaches Council and is the host of The Goat Consulting Podcast which drops weekly on Apple Podcast and YouTube!

Dr. Jubenville is also a highly sought-after public speaker (JRA Speakers).  In addition to delivering engaging keynote presentations for businesses and trade associations, he has been an invited lecturer at California Polytechnic University, The University of Florida, Elon University, Florida State University, The University of Alabama, and Vanderbilt University. His insights have been published in The Washington Times, The Nashville Business Journal, The Tennessean, The Nashville Post, Canvas Magazine, and AthleticBusiness.com. He serves as a mentor for the Williamson County (TN) Entrepreneur and Innovation Center.

Colby completed his doctoral studies at the University of Southern Mississippi in Human Performance and competed as a NCAA D-III student-athlete at Millsaps College. He calls Mobile, Alabama home and resides in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.