Anna Hess Email & Phone Number

I help clients develop clarity, build momentum, and thoughtfully develop their careers when they feel "stuck" -- stuck in an unrewarding career path, stuck in a toxic work environment, stuck in a fruitless job search, or stuck hopping from job to job without clear intention. Challenges I help clients with include: • Identifying career paths aligned with their goals and values• Creating action plans for pursuing new opportunities• Refining their career narrative to increase competitiveness while job searching• Defining growth objectives to strengthen professional performance • Addressing conflicts at work

San Francisco, California, Us

• Designed, ran, and improved L&D, employee wellbeing, and events programming to drive engagement and increase performance across a distributed, remote first team of 200+ employees• Managed end-to-end performance review process, including team and company alignment, training, timely and effective written reviews, calibrations, and compensation change implementation • Ran and improved HR operations by generating policies, ensuring compliance, streamlining onboarding processes, and managing a team of specialists, office managers, and consultants• Conducted and analyzed annual and pulse engagement surveys to inform company wide initiatives

• Built and maintained employee programs including: recruiting, hiring, onboarding, goal setting, performance management, learning & development, comprehensive benefits package, and transparent pay policy• Served as culture leader by creating and facilitating all employee engagement, including biannual strategic offsites, monthly team building gatherings, weekly All Hands, and teammate touch points • Kept business compliant for contractor and employee-related matters, including state registration for remote hires, tax documentation management, and payroll maintenance • Designed and cared for office environment to support employee experience and company events

New York, Ny, Us

• Managed worldwide onboarding and training initiatives for a staff of 450+ distributed across 37 global offices• Designed and executed staff engagement programs including Endeavor Fellows, a leadership course for top staff• Launched performance management method and platform• Authored and led internal communications projects

Ruiru, Kiambu, Ke

• Regional Sales Manager: expanded regional distribution channels in Kenya's coastal region; managed 5 sales activators• Corporate Sales Manager: led corporate sales of jikokoa cookstove, managed client relationships• Designed and facilitated sales team capacity building initiatives• Overhauled direct telesales efforts and managed team of tele-sales agents

Brooklyn, Ny, Us

• Wrote grant expressions of interest and full applications for funding from environmental,energy, and humanitarian funders, ranging from $10,000 to $1.5 million.• Researched funding opportunities; maintained internal grant database. • Overhauled media database; organized photos and videos for future use.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Assisted in planning and logistics for Cookstoves Future Summit 2014, a conference that raised more than $400 million from national governments and corporations for the clean cooking sector.• Managed Salesforce and online registration database.• Assisted with travel and visa logistics.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Conducted research on cookstove fuel efficiency; compiled fuel fact sheets for donors and partners. • Compiled environmental research portfolio to summarize Alliance's environmental data.

• Held private writing and revision sessions for 50 undergrad students per semester from brainstorm phase to final draft revisions in a wide array of disciplines: 1 hour tutoring sessions.

• Planned outdoor orientation trips across Maine for incoming first-year students. • Interviewed and hired new COOT leaders. • Ran training program each August for new and returning leaders.

• Led outdoor hiking and camping trips for first-year Colby students. • Built bonds amongst first-year students throughout the year, and planned reunion events.

Williamstown, Ma, Us

• Led 2-week long camping and hiking trips for middle school students. • Responsible for safety, logistics, trip planning, food, and transportation.• Worked in unison with co-leader.

Boston, Ma, Us

• Fundraised for Environment New Jersey and the Human Rights Campaign during door-to-door and street campaigns.• Trained and oversaw fellow canvassers; led filing of giver paperwork and other managerial tasks. • Highest grossing canvasser of office branch.