Providing learning and development support to USAID's Staff Care Program and organizational resilience initiatives.

Working with organizations, teams, and individuals, Anchored Focus Consulting develops foundational skills and attitudes for personal and professional effectiveness leading to life changing productivity and accomplishment. Visit the website at: https://anchoredfocus.com/

Provided training and project management services to Franklin IQ's diverse range of clients.

Partnered with line businesses to provide relevant and effective talent development solutions to organization’s 25,000 globally dispersed employees. Primary duties included: Talent Development, Project Management, Organizational Analysis, Human Resources Technologies, and Leadership Development.

Provided both tactical and strategic solutions to world’s largest credit union’s organizational learning needs as analyst, developer, designer and facilitator.

Hold adjunct faculty appointment with School of Education to teach graduate courses in training design and facilitation.

Instituted membership program for log home industry’s leading magazine solidifying company’s premier position linking subscribers to critical decision-making information and supplier’s products and services.General Management• Supervised nationwide log home shows and seminars with hundreds of vendors and thousands of attendees organizing venue logistics and temporary staffing. Redesigned event registration to ensure valid data capture with over 90% attendee participation.• Conducted industry survey capturing trends toward larger homes and younger owners reported in national media outlets raising visibility of industry and producers. Marketing• Led design team developing web site with members-only features including exclusive online content, discounted event registration, bookstore and supplier savings programs.• Coordinated database development with sales team and responded to members’ information requests with customized reports based on industry best practices.

Co-founded organizational development consulting firm specialized in strategic learning interventions.Consulting• Provided consulting and technical assistance services in leadership development, program evaluation and training to public and private industry clients, some overseas.• Conducted system-wide assessments to diagnose organization’s learning needs.Revenue • Submitted winning proposals for new work resulting in firm’s 5% annual growth.

Second employee of what is now a 74,000 square foot museum anchoring downtown Raleigh’s revitalization. Con-ceptualized educational vision encompassing global issues, developed prototype exhibits and adjacent programming. Transformed Anne Frank Center’s traveling photographic exhibit with interactive elements of sound, video, journal-ing and eyewitness accounts for 7,000 students from 15 NC counties for 12-day exhibit run.

Served two-year term as volunteer coaching secondary English teachers and providing in-service training and resources. Published bimonthly newsletters and compiled and printed English language resource book with local stories and drawings for national distribution. Grew and transplanted more than 100 shade trees at district schools. In coordination with the other English Teacher Advisors, recruited local teachers to study in England to qualify as our replacements assuring continuation of program following volunteer departure.