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Shakopee, Mn, Us

Hopkins, Minnesota, United States

Shakopee, Mn

COACH AND MENTOR: Teach yoga classes to a wide variety of students coaching and mentoring them on correct postures, wellness, physical fitness and meditation. Provide one on one private lessons to those with injuries both physical and mental to give them relief through the practice of yoga and meditation.

Chaska, Mn

COACH AND MENTOR: Teach yoga classes to a wide variety of students coaching and mentoring them on correct postures, wellness, physical fitness and meditation. Provide one on one private lessons to those with injuries both physical and mental to give them relief through the practice of yoga and meditation.

St. Louis Park, Mn

BUSINESS STRATEGY: Championing a renewable energy source prototype development, the Synthetic Wind Generator (SWG), creating business and marketing strategy and overall management of all aspects of the business. I synergize the overall strategy for the website, communications and presentation materials to be specifically persuasive to targeted audiences. PERFORMANCE MOTIVATION / TEAM LEADERSHIP / PERFORMANCE REVIEWS: Leading a diverse team of service providers and consultants in order to build a successful Renewable Energy Company. Provided both motivation and critique of the teams work while providing the necessary support so that they can be at their maximum potential. I am the vision and champion of where the team is going and how we are getting there.DATA ANALYSIS / RESEARCH / PROJECT PLANNING: Create research studies of the SWG prototype as well as data analysis. I have done extensive market research and analysis to develop a target market and produce the most persuasive and influential communications. I provide the vision and plan for all project execution to the team while collaborating with advisers on how best to achieve the organization’s goals. BUILDING RELATIONSHIP: Build strong collaborative relationships with service providers, investors, advisers and business partners.

Edina, Minnesota

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT: Support the delivery of employee engagement websites for multi-million dollar projects with Fortune 500 companies while ensuring that all communications were engaging, while producing action and responses from their employees. I learned how engagement works on a psychological level from the leading engagement firm in the world and how communication, technology and best practices can change a person’s view and even their behavior. These engagement principles are used for multi-platform communications and overall business strategy.PEOPLE STRATEGY: Provided top class internal and external customer service in a strategic and persuasive way that produced happy clients and co-workers. I collaborate with interdepartmental team members to create strategy for providing the best client presentations, presentation of data and metrics as well as communication pieces. COACHING / ON-BOARDING / MENTORING: Provide coaching and development training to new team members and provide training on best practices. Assist in their on-boarding process to the team which includes acting as a constant resource to best organizational practices and system processes. I hold training sessions while provide one on one coaching sessions to ensure new member’s success. I have developed and written training materials as well as improving upon existing training materials to be simple, informative and easily understood. BUILDING RELATIONSHIPS: Collaborate, champion and listen to internal and external clients to provide the best possible service and value to their projects and professional endeavors. Work with a myriad of different personalities, navigating a complex corporate network to build strong relationships in order to make problem solving efficient and beneficial for the organization’s goals.

Edina, Minnesota

ENGAGEMENT: Provided persuasive communication to re-engage service members into a rewards program while taking down detailed notes of their needs for the next point of contact. I broke multiple engagement and sales records. BUSINESS STRATEGY: Planned and executed a sound communication and persuasion strategy to provide the best service and engagement numbers for the programs I worked on in order to meet the organization’s business requirements.

Brooklyn Park, Minnesota

EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT / HR TRANSFORMATION / ON-BOARDING: Worked with a business partner to meet the talent needs of real estate rehabilitation projects, an infomercial product creation and sales of the infomercial product. Worked to keep employees engaged with their job so that they could reach their maximum efficiency and potential while transforming the way we hired people to increase our retention rate. This includes focusing on matching employees and contractors to the culture and goal of the organization as well as making an environment of empowerment. Trained and developed a group of sales individual to work at selling our infomercial product at local events. BUDGETS / BUSINESS STRATEGY / ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Managed budgets of $150,000 to $800,000 on various projects as well as championed the overall business strategy while aligning to our company’s goals. Managed all aspects of the business with emphasis on talent and skill needs and managing the budgets and employees. MARKETING / MARKET RESEARCH / STRATEGIC COMMUNICATIONS: Developed the marketing strategy through market research which ended in a $150,000 media purchase and full produced infomercial as well as a website, social media and print media. TEAM LEADERSHIP / PERFORMANCE MOTIVATION / PERFORMANCE REVIEW: Managed sales teams at local events and teams of workers at onsite rehabilitation construction projects. Provided motivation and support to maximize efficiency as well as job satisfaction. I gave performance reviews as well with constructive advice on how best to improve in their respective rolls.

PEOPLE STRATEGY / BUILDING RELATIONSHIP / ENGAGEMENT: Provided strategic and targeted sales by building relationships through identifying areas of improvement and cost savings for insurance (Property, Home and Life). Developed a strategy for engaging people for the sole purpose of educating them in insurance needs as well as how to protect their financial future. EVENT PLANNING / BUSINESS STRATEGY: Developed a business strategy to engage people in dialogue about their insurance needs by planning and executing various events such as Pet Fest at the Minnesota Renaissance Fair and charitable events for local communities.

COACHING AND MENTORING / PEOPLE DEVELOPMENT / LEADERSHIP: Planned, taught and supported classes for undergraduates in mass/strategic communications. Coached and mentored students on how best to tackle the materials, how to study and on complex concepts in the curriculum. Helped students to develop themselves into high achieving students through mentoring during office hours and after class discussions. STUDENT ENGAGEMENT: Collaborated with professors on providing the best all-around education and engagement of the Universities’ students.