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Create, iterate, and implement strategic plans to address scheduling, labor, and merchandising issues for 14–17 stores and 4K+ employees in US and Canada. Open stores, create employee engagement and training programs, and establish accountability practices that drive positive culture creation. Provide substantial change management leadership during Amazon acquisition and integration processes.• Re-organize Ontario Metro region while opening new store in Toronto, developing a strategy for changing minimum wage while achieving positive comps.• Provide executive and senior leadership with strategic and tactical advice related to both specific and generalized labor engagement and inventory management practices.• Restore profitability to failing stores by collaborating with leaders to analyze team performance and culture; create detailed action plans to align store with corporate values and objectives.• Mentor 100s of front-line and mid-level employees, many of whom moved into senior Whole Foods leadership or who found well-matched leadership positions elsewhere.• Create and execute change management strategies to streamline implementation and adoption of new inventory and shelf management systems.o Redesign departments based on customer flow and shopping pattern data.o Create intentional merchandising program that established peer accountability for store presentations and displays.o Decrease loss from shrink by increasing inventory turns.o Establish system for tracking inventory, merchandising, and sales metrics by week, month, and year.• Improve regional customer satisfaction and employee engagement scores by utilizing performance metrics to help team leaders create strategic, customized continual process improvement plans by store, department, and employee.• Provide interpersonal communications and policy trainings across the territory.

Opened first Whole Foods in Minnesota and established scalable, repeatable culture development practices for the region to facilitate the opening of 6 additional stores in the Twin Cities. • Instituted local vendor and community outreach program that dramatically increased sales for stores and 12+ vendors, including several who went global with Whole Foods.• Trained buyers and team leaders to track profit margins and create strategic sales and event plans that ensured team and store success.• Created a culture that championed individual ownership as part of team success by welcoming process improvement suggestions, celebrating metric growth, and engaging employees regularly.

Open Twin Cities territory for My Gym corporation by opening a gym offering classes for children from 3 months to 16-years old. Sold business at significant profit in 2005.• Drafted and presented a feasibility plan to establish lender relationship and receive funding.• Coordinated work of architect and contractors to build out safe, functional space.• Hired and trained staff to ensure consistent instruction and prevent participant injury.• Executed event-based and community outreach marketing plan to grow business to profitability.

• Worked with high explosives and aircraft while traveling extensively as assigned.• Received honorable discharge at end of enlistment.