Meet Our Team
Get to know the staff at Servant HR along with our background and values.
Chief Executive Officer
Mike has been involved in the human resource field in one way or another since 1991. As a management-side employment law attorney at Baker & Daniels in Indianapolis, Mike developed deep human resource legal and practical expertise. He also held human resource management positions at Eli Lilly & Company and the City of Indianapolis before becoming an entrepreneur, co-founding Dewitt & Lane, a business consulting company. Mike graduated magna cum laude from Taylor University with a BA in Political Science and History and obtained his JD cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center. Mike is a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR). He joined Servant HR in 2008 as its Chief Executive Officer.
Mike’s free time is focused on family. Mike married his wife, Rebecca, in 1988, and together they invest in the lives of their sons, Austin and Alec, and daughter, Ashlyn, through family ministry, travel and home school education. Much of the family’s travel involves their individual passions of film (Austin) and competitive gymnastics (Alec and Ashlyn).
Brad Schall CPA, CFP®
President
Brad’s desire is for small and mid-size business owners to be freed up to focus their time in areas where they provide unique value, and believes in the efficiency and effectiveness of the PEO model to aid in that partnership.
Brad’s role with Servant HR leverages his prior experience with Ronald Blue Trust™ (formerly Ronald Blue and Co.) where he served as a client advisor for the past ten years. His primary area of focus within Servant HR is to provide client experience leadership as well as oversight in finance. Brad partners with the Business Development Executive to source new and retain existing client relationships.
In his leisure time, Brad enjoys spending time with his wife Michelle and their two children.
Director of Operations
Loren has acquired extensive personnel and managerial experience while serving as a departmental and office manager for over 25 years. He has a diverse background as a “details man,” having had numerous opportunities to develop and utilize his skills in research, computer literacy, training development, management and consultation. Loren enjoys working behind the scenes to facilitate and streamline methods that help others achieve personal and company goals. He became a Certified Payroll Professional in 2011.
Outside the office, Loren enjoys playing the piano and dabbles a bit in composing and arranging. He has taught music classes, published a collection of children’s songs and produced several music recordings. Along with his wife Leah and their three teenage sons, Loren is actively involved in the music program at their local church, where he also serves as a deacon and a Sunday school teacher.
When he has down time, you will likely find Loren in a quiet corner with a cup of coffee and a good book, or enjoying a road trip to visit extended family.
Staff Accountant
Jayne provides the accounting and bookkeeping functions for Servant HR and its clients. This involves tax filings and required reporting for clients, as well as all general accounting functions for Servant HR. She has deep experience in all of these financial functions with nearly 20 years of experience with such diverse employers as The Personnel Department, Perkins Family Restaurants and Mike’s Carwash. Jayne also has experience in developing centralized accounting and purchasing processes for more efficient financial operations.
She and her husband have been married for more than 35 years. They have two children and four grandchildren. In addition to spending much time with her family, Jayne is very involved in her church. In addition to music and teaching ministries, she also uses her professional skills as the church Bookkeeper/Assistant Treasurer.
Sarah Shagena
Benefits Assistant
Sarah’s passion is serving others, so when employees have questions about their benefits, she eagerly helps them navigate the often-complicated world of insurance. Whether an employee questions the cost of a medical procedure, needs assistance interpreting an unexpected medical bill, or simply requests a new ID card, Sarah’s goal is to provide understanding and answers. Administratively, she also processes insurance applications for new employees, helps employees when their family status changes, and creates benefit guides for clients.
Holly Martinez
Payroll Coordinator
Holly brings much practical experience to Servant HR. She spent seven years assisting her husband in organizing mission trips into Mexico, providing operational and administrative assistance to up to 100 people per trip. She then spent nine years as an accuracy checker of college math textbooks for one of the largest textbook companies in the United States. Holly is a “numbers person” with much attention to detail – which makes her perfect for this role.
Holly and her husband have been married for over twenty years and have been blessed with four boys. She loves being a soccer mom and faithfully follows them to all their games. In their teen years now, they also keep her busy keeping the pantry stocked and the fridge full. She also loves to watch a good chick flick, but gets overridden for a super hero movie most often. Cooking with her husband is also a favorite pastime. Holly grew up in the south, but her love of the outdoors is thrilled to live where she can enjoy fall colors and a good snow fall, but visit family and the beach in the summer. Holly also serves faithfully in her local church, with her favorite place being the church nursery.
HR & Benefits Specialist
Julie’s education and real world experience has given her an array of tools for helping business leaders and employees succeed in the ever changing realm of Human Resources. She believes an HR professional must first understand the business in which employees operate, build positive relationships and then work to set persons within that organization up for success. Whether it be providing employment law guidance, benefits administration or helping someone onboard each role is taken on with a serving heart.
Prior to joining Servant HR, Julie worked for Nucor Steel and Indianapolis based Brightpoint Inc. (now Ingram Micro). She holds a BS in Speech Communication from East Tennessee State University and a Masters of Human Resources from the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina.
Julie’s professional life is complimented by her husband and two young sons Gabriel and Caleb. She values her family time and strives to raise her boys with Christian values. When home, she can be found doing yoga or pilates, cooking up international dishes, or making her family laugh.
Susan Martin
Administrative Specialist
Susan joined the team with a love of helping people. She has a BS from Wright State University and has spent the last several years helping run her family’s small business and homeschool their children. She provides office administration support for employers, employees and her servant HR teammates. She is probably the friendly voice you hear first on the phone.
Susan and her husband Ben have been married nearly 20 years and have 3 children. In between work, music lessons, and sports practices, they have a small hobby farm that keeps them busy. In her spare time Susan enjoys cooking, reading, spending time with her family, and helping in their local church.
Jeff C. Leffew
Founder and Chairman
Jeff graduated from Southwest Baptist University in Bolivar, Missouri with a BS degree in Business Management. Jeff also obtained an MBA from Taylor University. He has worked in the human resource field since 1991, starting out as a Personnel Assistant at Silver Dollar City in Branson, Missouri. As the Assistant HR Director at Volume Services in Kansas City, Missouri, his clients included the Kansas City Chiefs and Royals. He arrived in Indiana to work for The Personnel Department, a start-up administrative employer organization.
In 2000, Jeff began his first entrepreneurial venture by co-founding Strategic Partners Consulting in Kansas City, Missouri. Later, he sold this company to his former employer and continued on as the CEO for the next three years. After ten years in the industry serving companies throughout the Midwest, Jeff started Servant HR in the summer of 2003.
Jeff highly values his family time as he stays busy with his marathon-running wife Karen and his four daughters, Gabrielle, Kylee, Annika and Tessa. The girls love piano while mom enjoys making up reasons to have celebrations and decorate for such events as “Last Day of School” and “First Day of Spring”! When they are not staying busy with their many ministry opportunities at church, Jeff earnestly puts forth effort to get his “ladies” to love Notre Dame football and Butler basketball – with limited success.
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Servant HR is a full-service human resources service provider. By partnering with us, you get a fully integrated human resources team working for your protection.
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