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Texas, United States

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We need great leaders! The future of your industry, market organization, team, and/or job is being shaped by dynamic forces. Great leaders are those, who in navigating these dynamics, activate and unleash the full potential of your people to create value. I help your organization shape these futures through their leaders and the need for adaptable leaders is stronger than ever.

Sherwood, Arkansas, Us

ABC Fitness Solutions is a Thoma Bravo portfolio company, and is the premier provider of software and related services for the fitness industry by simplifying the business of fitness for 19,000+ gyms and club facilities globally. As the Director of People and Culture, I provide hands-on support in driving a huge culture change to boost employee engagement and morale by conceptualizing effective programs from scratch. I supervise direct and in-direct reports comprising of Business Partners, and Specialists. I organize executive strategy sessions to facilitate discussing strategy, future plans, aligning team focus, prioritizing actions, and connecting budgets with plans. I coach and mentor senior leaders to improve their leadership abilities and overcoming team challenges. I recruit best-fit talents through interviews, assessments, and shortlisting eligible candidates. Highlights of accomplishment in this role include:• I played a key role in nurturing an integrated culture by designing, developing, and implementing a complete learning and development program and an orientation program from scratch; received extremely positive feedback and high praise by leaders and participants.• I performed segmentation of career ladders, developed level specific core expertise, developed employees, restructured the entire catalog of LinkedIn learning courses, designed and rolled out new policies and procedures, and implemented compliance training with a new vendor. • I facilitated senior leadership team in strategic decision-making process by providing valuable insights, direction/recommendations, and robust support; helped to hire eight additional individuals to expand the team.• I contributed efforts towards maximizing employee retention and satisfaction by conceptualizing and implementing a performance management program and influencing job architecture program, researching, hiring, and partnering with vendors to better survey employee base to measure outcomes.

Worldwide, Oo

In this role, I designed and facilitated workshops on rational leadership development in the Deloitte Greenhouse, a prestigious and innovative center initiative to brainstorm new ideas for dealing with the world’s scariest problems by defining the most effective pathways. I collaborated with senior executives and C-suite members in deriving optimal solutions for complex challenges, such as strategy, vision, market penetration, future investments, talent, access / security, marketing, AI, and Cloud. I worked with significant companies, such as FedEx, Allianz, Sysco, and Kohl’s. I ensured all stakeholders have the right conversations by designing multi-day sessions.Highlights of accomplishment in this role include:• I strengthened mutual relations between CEO and direct team, and restored trust and loyalty by helping the CEO in realizing mistakes and apologizing to their team.• I helped an executive team realize the impact of a billion-dollar investment on their organization and how to bring it to market. • I organized a workshop to help a Fortune Top 50 organization reinvent their vision for their marketing department to better position with customers.

Worldwide, Oo

In this role, I spearheaded the management of a number of projects from conception/proposal to completion and final delivery, while leading three direct and a number of indirect reports as well as staying within budgets and stringent deadlines. I designed and delivered effective presentations to promote new work streams and generate pipelines for future projects. I advised and coached direct reports on client relationships. I conducted multi-week functional sessions to gather current and future process alignment. I acted as an intermediary with a number of competing consulting firms and companies as liaison and project coordinator. I administered the entire aspect of an internal program to develop future leaders of analysts, consultants, and senior consultants.Highlights of accomplishments in these roles include:• I was hand-picked to Enable the client “Pfizer” in accomplishing the smoothest transition in the history of the organization; empowered them to turn off all aspects of systems and tech while divesting 12,000 employees as well as deriving plans to help the new company in accepting all employees. • I developed the best change management strategy in a highly stressful environment without compromising operational continuity. • I conducted due diligence to identify and evaluate the diversified need of a new company, as well as communicated the valuable information to the leadership team to support successful execution of divesture. • I successfully obtained extension, turning a two-month contract into a full-year contract.• I directed operating model change efforts to support a $7 billion global client in transforming their IT from a traditional operating model to an Agile product-based model, while driving focus on strategy, execution, and organizational design.

Worldwide, Oo

I was hand-picked by management to deliver exceptional consultancy and support to Fortune 500 and Fortune 100 organizations on overseeing human capital change. I managed a number of teams and collaborated with cross-functional departments throughout the project life cycle. I helped team members in overseeing deliverables and project plans, interacted with clients on a regular basis on project scope, and developed content for delivery.Highlights of accomplishments in these roles include:• I partnered with General Council and Legal team to create a legal specific competency model; teaching hundreds of lawyers to become less conservative and more innovative to support the investments of a +145,000-member Fortune Global 100 technology organization. • I played an integral role in helping New York’s largest healthcare organization to execute a significant technology change for a $22 million project; served as a Lead Change Management expert, influenced other peers without ownership, elaborated the impact of change in a persuasive manner, and supported the implementation of HR System and job architecture redesign for over 70,000 employees.• I successfully executed the transition, improved service delivery, and centralized all different services into the same system, which provided more visibility to the organization and an ability to create actionable metrics.• I generated incremental contract revenue with clients. • I facilitated Toyota in reducing the cost of delay by accelerating the process of getting certain designs out for manufacturing of vehicles through Lean Flow methodologies.• I utilized exceptional leadership acumen while providing Agile transformation coaching to GMs of Fortune Global 10 organization, including maturity assessment, road map development, and scrum in delivering for new vehicle releases. • I coached and mentored other consultants on Agile methodologies, while helping whole team integrate from Waterfall to Agile.

Dallas, Texas, Us

I collaborated with HR SVP in providing compensation practices to 2500-member hospital. I envisioned and implemented change management process for new clinical bonus / metric structure for +18k nurses.Highlights of accomplishments in these roles include:• I helped management in implementing a bonus structure plan for new nurses; coordinated with all 18 Chief Nursing Officers and orchestrated all communications and programming within the systems, which resulted in reducing nursing turnover by 15%.

Dallas, Texas, Us

I was selected by management to support the amalgamation of Baylor Health System and Scott & White Health System; evaluated all processes and systems such as payroll, benefits, organization design, HR systems data tracking, performance management, recruiting, onboarding, policies and procedures, Time and Attendance Tracking, and compensation. I identified areas of improvements, provided appropriate recommendations, documented the current state and desirable future state of all transitions, and delivered communication training, and leadership alignment to support successful go-live of system and completion of merger from systems, technology, and operations standpoint. I planned and executed monthly awareness sessions, broadcasted across 56 hospitals, by designing content for executive speakers.Highlights of accomplishments in these roles include:• I directed simultaneous M&A change efforts during a $20 million E2E HR system implementation for +40k hospital system. • I eliminated inefficiencies and reduced resistance to support successful merger by implementing and managing a 700-member change network across 49 hospitals. • I conceptualized and implemented a multi-year internal development program for 350-member department. • I led the implementation of a brand new time and attendance system for +30k clinical staff across 100+ facilities and locations.• I managed a 24/7 command center hotline for two weeks to provide on-time resolution to break fixes, address system errors, and roll out communication to all impacted stakeholder groups by leading a team of 20 individuals.• I slashed wait times and enhanced client resolution by 15% through consulting with call center, leading two-week sessions with Director and team, highlighting procedures, and applying Lean Flow principles.• I earned an award and recognition from CHRO for demonstrating exceptional leadership skills; awarded the MARCOM award for change management communications for the benefits program.

Lake Oswego, Oregon, Us

I aided in establishing the entire infrastructure, business model, product design and marketing, website and traffic, and business / payment systems. I r consultants to deliver wide range of services to clients. I worked with leadership team in monitoring P&L and product development expenditures. I envisioned a marketing strategy, identified product niche, defined key competitors, and positioned business products to differentiate from competitors.Highlights of accomplishments in these roles include:• I created Assessments and Competency Modeling to drive leadership capabilities for client development.• I designed and developed Self-Assessment and 360 Assessment to help leaders understand the effectiveness and preferences around key leadership competencies. These assessments have now been used by +8k participants. • I developed benchmarks and forecasting to track progress, which resulted in auditable revenue counting and 30% increase in revenue over the years.

Denton, Tx, Us

LEADERSHIP ANALYST, Professional Leadership Program-Design and manage competency talent development/succession process for 350 students and corporate mentors.-Provide coaching for 10 Student Directors on team leadership, personal development, and enhanced performance.-Initiate and design talent curriculum for 30 week course and new university course on leadership. GRADUATE ASSISTANT TO THE DEAN, College of Business-Implement first annual All Boards Day uniting 120 College of Business board members from all 9 boards.-Restructure internal annual giving fund for the UNT College of Business increasing revenue by 200%.-Personal communications writer for the Dean to external constituents.GRADUATE ASSISTANT, Murphy Center for Entrepreneurship-Organize annual Leadership Luncheon, the largest UNT external event, attended by over 600 business leaders.-Editor and creator of quarterly newsletter “Mindset” sent to over 8,000 subscribers.- Develop 5 strategic business plans for the College of Information, Journalism, and Division of Equity and Diversity.GRADUATE ASSISTANT, College of Education-Increase program applications from 2 to 60 in 4 months while securing constant donor support from faculty and staff.-Direct and teach weekly classes in English and Spanish. Hired and managed team of 3 instructors.-Train and grade 200 students through weekly discussions and assignments on effective teaching.

Plano, Texas, Us

-Initiate and design internal coding system for all company roles and positions resulting in corporate career planning.-Identify and develop unifying job description system for all roles and positions to enhance performance reviews.-Design and aid in the creation of facilitation guide for corporate leadership conference.

Provo, Ut, Us

-Managed production services to 9,000 daily patrons-Develop leadership team to all be promoted within 12 months.-Increase sales by almost 300% from previous year earnings.-Draft and implement training systems that led to the four highest monthly sales over a 10 year period.-Double restaurant efficiency from 60 to 110 customers per hour and set new restaurant daily record.

Provo, Ut, Us

-Research and interview current social entrepreneurs in the field to create a database for budding entrepreneurs to gain information and connections to start their own businesses.-Design web page for new stories to be used by Dowser to highlight research.

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Strategic Management

B.A, English