Andrea L. Espy, M.A. Email & Phone Number

Southern California

Andrea specializes in leadership coaching, facilitation, and talent/leadership development program design. Over the past twenty+ years, as a Consultant, Manager, Director, Talent Officer, and Executive Coach Andrea has led a variety of efforts: coaching senior leaders, changing organizational values, implementing customer-centric business models, designing learning programs, creating top talent development programs, leading employee engagement work, and more. When you combine her purpose to help leaders be their best selves with her ability to connect with others, she is positioned to be a true catalyst for leaders to grow and thrive. Andrea adopted the Appreciative Inquiry Methodology (AIM) early in her career. She has a unique ability to maximize the strengths of individuals, teams, and organizations by assessing what is working well and building on that to effectively move the needle to achieve goals and realize one’s aspirations. By making things simple, engaging, and practical, Andrea makes coaching experiences and workshop content actionable so participants can realize true change.

California - West Coast Region

The IMpower Program prepares early-career women to contribute to corporate goals and objectives. It focuses on ways for women to “own” their careers, develop smart relationships, build confidence, bolster organization-wide impact and espouse change and innovation.

United States

Orange County, California, United States

Irvine, California, United States

Advocate for Filene’s people and organization ensuring they identify the right strengths, gaps and skillsets to achieve their business goals -- and grow the right talent to achieve their service mission. Coach the Executives and Senior Leaders, Lead Organizational and Talent Development work, and support HR needs.

Costa Mesa, Ca

Head of Talent and Learning Strategy for the corporate office and retail sides of the business. Oversaw program design, management, and execution for performance management, talent reviews, succession planning, high-potential development programs, engagement work, and suite of ongoing learning and development offerings to support the lifecycle of all employees. Sat on VF’s Talent Development COE to lead enhancements to talent development, including performance management, talent reviews, core curriculum, engagement survey work, and LMS transition and implementation for Vans. Led Director-Level Coaching efforts – administering, debriefing, and coaching around 360 Multi-Rater Feedback Assessments to fulfill targeted Individual Development Plans and maximize leadership strengths to achieve organizational performance goals and successfully build the talent bench of leaders aspiring to executive ranks.

Newport Beach, California

Head of Talent Management, OD, and Training for Vintage Senior Living. Identified and drove a comprehensive organizational development and learning strategy. Created and delivered effective training and coaching to support continued people development across multiple functional areas including sales training, manager training, leadership development and succession planning programs. This included the design and facilitation of programs, presentation of material, vendor management, partnering with internal subject matter experts and management of company-wide talent management, performance management, change management, learning and development.

Irvine, California

Drove talent management strategies throughout all levels of the organization in alignment with the overall HR and business strategies. Managed the development and implementation of innovative, strategic solutions to enhance business performance through a focus on organizational design, alignment, and accountability; culture shift; senior team effectiveness; collaboration; core process improvement. Oversaw talent management strategies such as performance management, employee engagement, rewards and recognition, and employee development. Managed the corporate communication function to ensure timely and consistent messaging through all levels across all locations.

Orange, California

Led the organization’s leadership development programs to build the leadership pipeline. Strategized and developed multi-platform approaches to deliver new and ongoing learning needs with maximum impact and minimal work disruption (eLearning, Just-in-time learning, Online Support, Communities of Practice, Webinars, Content Management architectures, and information online in real-time). These solutions included interaction with various levels of staff and management to assess learning needs, secure senior leader sponsorship and support, and gain buy-in and partnership with subject matter experts.

Facilitated the Supervisory Academy and Administrative Development Academy. Led classification and compensation studies. Designed and implemented recruitment and selection tools for the 8000-employee public safety group, which includes offices of the sheriff, district attorney, public defender and medical examiner.

Supported the consulting projects of Saker Lynd International and online products for their People On-Line program.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Organizational Psychology

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology

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