I am a people connector and diversity champion with over two decades of talent leadership focused on career opportunities and inclusive experiences across organizations for tech professionals. My strategic approach centers on people engagement to create a strong culture of leadership, appreciation, and inclusion for talent development and recruiting programs, nationally and globally. I design, implement and manage people program solutions at Digital Technology, Professional Consulting Services, and start-up companies that align with business goals and company values. As an executive leader, I mentor and coach to empower and develop skills of TA and HR pros and team supervisors. I have multiple years of remote team leadership of virtual, high-performing teams. I enable Talent Acquisition, HR, Learning, Delivery and CSR functions to be efficient, modern, data-driven and high-touch.My core competencies include leadership development, career path development, employee empowerment, inclusive leadership, people communications, performance management, workforce planning, talent management, talent analytics, and technology adoption. I am certified in Diversity & Inclusion, Leadership Development, Sustainability, Engaging Talent, Behavioral Interviewing, Executive Leadership Profile, and Strategic Sourcing for Workforce Planning.HR Management Competencies+ Business Acumen: Explores business processes, competitor trends, budgets, financial metrics, org strategy and structures+Leadership Development: Servant leader who listens, mentors, shares best practices, receives feedback, collaborates, defines the focus, empathy, energy, equity+ Employee Empowerment: caring pulse of people, anticipates workforce reactions and impacts of business decisions, team collaboration, career mobility, diversity and inclusion, ADA, EEOC, OFCCP+ Performance Management: Develops skills, careers, sets expectations, goals, KPIs, provides feedback and rewards+ Workforce Planning and TA: Aligns business strategy to identify, plan and meet current and future talent needs+ Talent Management: Manages talent and org change via core people processes as succession and retention planning, and equal opportunity+ Data-driven talent analytics: Analyzes and translates metrics, outcomes and YoY attraction, attrition, outreach, and costs + Technology adoption and workflow automation: Workday, Oracle, Taleo, Greenhouse ATS & HRIS, MS Teams, Sharepoint, Hiretual, LinkedIn Analytics