Bethany Weiser Email & Phone Number

Dayton, Oh, Us

Designs and leads business development activities, creating and prioritizing new business opportunities to achieve 3-star General-driven goals for mission growth. Develops strategic plans and presentations to effectively communicate mission and value proposition to Air Force stakeholders and mission partners. Assesses program mission, develops clear goals and objectives to focus tasks on innovation, improvement and provide clear path for progressive change. Clarifies employee roles & responsibilities and division of labor to optimize portfolio coverage and workload. >>Developed 3-yr travel plan to visit 12 AFMC installations; completed 4 of 12 in CY 2023; connected with over 1,000 personnel to spread mission capability and awareness; drove productivity increase by 322% >>Led team to conduct 42 UX focus groups collecting 221 grassroots ideasOversees strategic communications activity. Designed and implemented a multi-medium communication and engagement strategy. Continuously analyzes 90-day data for trend and gap analysis. Leverages data to develop communications/marketing strategies. Utilizes strategic communication tactics to optimize content and user experience via engagement-based marketing.>>Increased repeat website engagement 58% in last 30 days reaching 37,938 visits>>Increased average time spent on organization-intranet per user by 22% since last quarter >>Increased newsletter viewership and engagement by 42K% (52 views prior to strategy implementation to a/o Mar 2024 21,973 views)

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Enterprise focal point reporting directly to the Deputy Commander of Air Force Materiel Command. Provides expert management consulting, organizational development, and senior advisory on enterprise improvement and innovation programs.Manages Innovation project portfolio of 400+ projects; quarterbacks innovation strategy design, program delivery and execution, milestones, measures and metrics. Guides strategic planning and provides organizational consultation impacting >80K employees world-wide. Collaborates with innovation ecosystem pulling together diverse teams (Engineering, Software, Legal, Contracting) for functional expertise.Accelerated the innovation execution path for new Open Software Architecture for the F-22. Implemented grass-root pathways for AFMC Commander (General Arnold Bunch) endorsement. Secured $500K 3400 funds for 2 SBIR support contracts.Practices lean methodologies to solve problems, improve processes, practices and streamline work activity. Facilitated Logistics Process Improvement Event; led team to a 62% process waste reduction impacting $864M of aircraft assets.Designs & implements data analysis and visual management tools to measure innovation & improvement program activity, collect demographics and identify gaps.-Develops enterprise strategic planning, provides organizations with consultation on 3-5 year strategic vision------Accomplishments-------Enterprise consultant; utilized program & technical expertise to improve program collaboration & visibility by 448% within 11 monthsSwiftly mitigated delay to Air Force contract award for Innovation Network platform; developed internal digital platform for enterprise innovation campaign 51 days ahead, capturing 97 ideasGlobal connector; developed innovation hub for global collaboration with Air Force key stakeholders, connected 225 program managers

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Conducts organizational analysis to make recommendations to leaders regarding organization functions and effectiveness. Examines work processes and develops lean strategies to improve efficiency. Utilizes predictive analytics techniques to develop forecasting tools and resources. • Executed 26 organizational changes across 3 complex organizations impacting ~61K personnel• Designed new organization construct to more quickly enable flight test mission accomplishment-- $656M impact programmed for 2019• Advised Air Force leadership on organizational change to expand the overall portfolio of the Presidential Airlift and Recapitalization office—changes impacted ~300 personnel, 2 geographic locations and ~$600M contract with Boeing• Enabled organization leaders to more accurately capture baseline metrics and future benchmarking via tracking system/dashboard concept to promote accountability and transparency of organization actions• Advised the Personnel Division on organizational options that would bring >300 positions under AFMC and expand the MAJCOM structure of the Personnel Division-- transforming civilian recruiting, placement, and staffing MAJCOM lead for Human Capital Workforce Planning. Works in collaboration with Personnel (A1K) and Force Development (A1D) to develop the AFMC Human Capital Plan.• Defined MAJCOM Workforce Planning direction to identify and address gaps between current workforce and future requirements (plan for hiring surges and loss, assess current talent, reduce competency gaps and forecast needs).• Developed MAJCOM Workforce Planning initiatives and defined milestones and measures in accordance with Air Force strategic direction.

Dayton, Ohio Area

Provided comprehensive manpower and human resource analysis for ~9K resources across the enterprise. Applied analytical and evaluative techniques to collaborate with Directorate personnel to align resources with manpower planning and programming requirements. Led digital transformation initiative to improve telework accountability & approval. Conceptualized and directed the development of an automated platform that would reduce manual routing, administrative error and enable package approval from up to 30 days to less than 1 business day.Briefed Major General Cooley and 55 of AFMC’s top leadership to include General Officers and Senior Executive Service members on RY Telework Application to further Command-level conversation on automated personnel processes.Led management on effort to re-posture the organization to meet warfighting challenges as outlined in the National Defense Strategy, CSAF's Future Operating Concept for 2035 and the 2030 S&T Strategy.Swiftly identified mission-critical discrepancies impacting 20% of Sensors Directorate personnel regarding organization structure changes.Advised enterprise on human resource programs, recruitment options, policies and regulation for civilian and military personnel. Advised the Commander, supervisors and managers on civilian personnel matters to include position classification, qualifications determinations, and guidelines for appropriately setting pay for scientific, technical and medical positions.

Professional Certification, Business Analytics

Application of how today's leaders can use analytics to improve decision making. Skills in: Data Collection Methods, Correlation.

Bachelor Of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Business Administration And Management, General

Focused on the study of organizations and how to best utilize employees to optimize business operations. Emphasized a behavioral science.

Master Of Science - Ms, Business Psychology