Bret Nelson Email & Phone Number

United States

Full-Service organizational development, change management, talent optimization, and sales consulting; working with executives to identify and close key operational and organizational gaps in the sales process and company leadership.-Fractional HR leader supporting Industrial Engineering company in developing talent development, recruitment and.

New York, NY, US

• Led the creation and deployment of a comprehensive, global organizational and people strategy across the Energy and Financial Services sales divisions, enhancing the capabilities of 30+ managers and 450 employees.
• Led data-driven organizational leadership changes, encompassing re-leveling, job profiling, and restructuring to optimize efficiency and performance.
• Implemented a structured recruitment and onboarding process that reduced the time to job impact from 8 months to 6 months, ensuring new hires are productive faster.
• Redesigned career path development architecture, shifting from business-owned to central management, enhancing career path clarity and alignment.
• Facilitated and developed an annual talent calibration process, identifying succession plans, key talent, and team gaps, which informed workforce planning, development, and learning initiatives.
• Responsible for team/people integration workstreams for two company-wide mergers and two key acquisitions (IPREO, Informa), this work included global restructuring, team process harmonization, and partnering with Total.

New York, NY, US

• Orchestrated an organizational culture transformation, building high-performing teams for over 13K employees, enhancing overall company revenue and advancing strategic objectives.
• Established Organizational Development (OD) initiatives, fostering high-performing teams through strategies such as culture change, enhanced coaching, performance management, change management, and business agility.
• Guided integration of a merger between managing directors and vice presidents, spearheading the creation of company-wide leadership development content.
• Developed a Vice President promotion program to cultivate strategic thinking, personalized leadership voice, and executive stamina, preparing employees for future leadership roles.
• Successfully transitioned all leadership content for virtual format delivery, ensuring seamless leadership training and development during remote work periods.
• Accelerated sales effectiveness, productivity, and revenue by designing sales programs from entry to executive levels, integrating a common sales framework, shared language, and transparent communication.

Edmonton, Alberta, CA

• Senior Training and Organizational Development consultant focused on improving organizational and individual performance in area districts across the US. Some of the areas of focus:
• Create and facilitate strategic OD interventions and initiatives, planning sessions, stakeholder alignment meetings based on internal and external customer needs.
• Support the PCL performance management program by facilitating learning sessions and coaching end-users.
• Administer and facilitate courses based on performance development assessments such as DiSC, HDRQ Leadership Profile, Group Styles Inventory and TMA Country Navigator.
• Facilitate and deliver of behavioral skill development programs to District team members and leaders.
• Author and collaborate to create new curriculum based on the results of an annual needs analysis that identified gaps in performance in the Districts.

• Management consulting firm with expertise in sales and organizational development.
• Leveraged expertise in human capital development to provide consultation and conduct training on leadership and organizational development, performance management, communication, relationship building, sales.
• Orchestrated and led a virtual sales team, achieving annual revenues of $6.5M in 2014 and $8M in 2015, exemplifying superior sales and leadership training capabilities.
• Championed various Organizational Development (OD) interventions across both nonprofit and for-profit Fortune 500 organizations
• Spearheaded annual strategic planning for a variety of esteemed organizations, such as Financial Executives International, UNLV Alumni Association, Turnaround Management Association, Henderson Symphony Orchestra, and.
• As an Executive Coach, provided guidance and support to the incoming CEO of a prominent non-profit organization with an annual budget of $20M, facilitating a smooth transition during the critical first year.

Cedar City, Utah, US

Independent commercial insurance broker focused on assisting large commercial clients design and implement proactive risk management solutions and insurance programs.

Cedar City, Utah, US

• Organized and developed from scratch Leavitt Group recruitment program and selection process
• Developed new producer school training course from ground up
• Facilitated 6 two-week long courses, 4 one-week courses, and numerous one-day sales seminars
• Facilitate weekly training sessions and coach more than fifty new producers across the Leavitt Group
• Coordinated upgrade and roll-out of company pipeline managements system

Master'S, Organizational Leadership

Ba, Communication And Management