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LEADING: | +Organizational Transformation +Learning Innovation +Workforce Development +Enablement & Engagement +Corporate Strategy +Strategic Planning +Change Management"Learning & Development leaders are answering employees' renewed calls for growth & purpose, responding to the ever-expanding skills gap caused by the acceleration of digital transformation, and grappling with the urgent challenge of future-proofing our organization." [cited below]

High performance in Sales Strategy allowed for expanded responsibility in my role –trailblazing Learning & Development and Enablement at Impact.>>>Additional Experience includes:• Cementing an L&D framework using both sound, traditional principles + agile methodologies • Establishing formal intake, Learning Needs Analysis, Learning Design & Development Models, Instructional Delivery, and Evaluation measures to improve company-wide performance through acquired skills & knowledge• Implementing a Learning Management System (LMS) to allow for budding Digital Learning strategy, to compliment proprietary ILT, vILT, Blended Learning, Social Learning, and Coaching programs• Working alongside Executive team to drive strategic and cross-functional initiatives • Personally owning all instructional development and delivery during COVID-19 crisis; spearheading change management, addressing the skills gap, increasing employee engagement and helping employees adapt to evolving work models

Demonstrated success in sales management, business & talent development, and branch-wide operations allowed for a career-advancing opportunity in corporate strategy, sales enablement and professional development —where I served as a conduit between Sales, Training, Corporate Marketing, RevOps, and Service Delivery to ensure scalable growth practices, sales messaging, and thought leadership. >>>Experience includes:• Analysis & foundational development in all areas of talent, process and strategy• Standardization of selling standards and training practices• Creation and cohesion of brand collaterals, materials and messaging• Collaboration with organizational units, bridging remedial gaps between sales + all departments

A successful track record in business development, account management and high-caliber customer service allowed for a career-advancing opportunity in management —where I recruited, developed and oversaw a team of Solutions Sales Consultants. >>>Experience includes:• Mentoring, aiding and developing sales skills, territory management skills, business acumen, industry knowledge and vertical-market applications in new hires• Managing office operations and team wide financials• Instilling and advancing the Impact business model with prospective clients• Project-managing complex technical implementations • Collaborating with banking partners, building amortization schedules• Forecasting and budgeting directly to ownership and upper managementAccomplishments include:• Increasing manpower by 166% from July 2015-December 2017• Increasing YOY team revenues by 21% within first managerial calendar year [achieving $2.9 million in sales + $1.4 million in service revenues]• Increasing YOY team revenues by 75% through end of fiscal 2017, breaking into $3mm and $4mm echelon [achieving $4.2 million in sales + $3 million in service revenues]

At Impact Networking, we help organizations leverage world-class technology to overcome specific, process-oriented business challenges. We are a marketplace leader in document creation, production, distribution and management, and have held an esteemed spot on Crain's Chicago Business Fast Fifty list and Inc. 5000, as one of the fastest growing privately held companies in the nation. >>>Experience includes:• Identifying organizational inefficiencies within the financial, legal, creative and non-profit markets • Collaborating with executive leadership to design, develop and implement custom document & data solutions • Providing ongoing technical support and end-user training to manage accounts and nurture client relationships• Exhibiting strong interpersonal and account management skills, by offering visibility in business environments through quarterly reviews• Building brand awareness and professional networking through company-sponsored events with the Chicago Blackhawks, Chicago Loop Alliance, the Association for Legal Administrators and moreNamed "Rookie of the Year" in 2012 [achieving $512,000 in hardware/software revenues within first calendar year]

Experience includes: • Shadowing multimedia journalists on assignment and assisting with b-roll footage, interviews and video-packaging• Writing news scripts for the various anchored segments • Teleprompting in the control room alongside production staff

• Assumed position Spring 2010 upon returning from abroad, a 35 hour/week, non-paid time commitment• Manage all news desks –Campus, City and State- by allocating articles, mentoring new writers, pitching story ideas, fact-checking and editing, leading the news team and increasing involvement within the campus• Attend a daily news editor meeting to configure story lengths and organize page layout and story distribution

• Lead bi-weekly meetings and monthly workshops, discussions, fundraisers and activities • Manage club finances, oversee and create all sponsored events, develop new ideas for annual Ethics Week• Increase membership and campus involvement from 5 members to 35 members

• Create new events to advance the ethical standards of journalism and communicate with professionals• Organized a trip to New York to tour PR agencies, newsrooms, marketing firms and Good Morning America