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Provide executives with business driven advice and solutions to key organizational and leadership challenges. Beth’s consulting work helps leaders and organizations advance their business strategy, objectives and culture. She does extensive work as an executive coach and as an organizational development consultant helping leaders develop high performing leadership teams. Her clients range from private start-ups to global multibillion dollar public companies in a range of industries, including: biotechnology, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, as well as high technology.Examples of consulting work:-Partnered with VP Sales at medical device company to build his leadership team's ability to lead change and improve adoption of a major business model change-Provided breakthrough feedback and coaching to a senior leader in a global life sciences company which resulted in significant improvement in their trust and rapport with peers-Coaching an SVP of a pharmaceutical company to take their leadership to the next level-Partnered with VP to design new organization. Crafted the story and communications strategy.-Partnered with a Sr. Director to develop their 90-day assimilation plan.-Designed and facilitated a 2-day Leadership Team meeting with the CEO of a private life science company and his top team to build their effectiveness and develop company values and leadership behaviors.-Built a Development Planning module for managers at a Johnson & Johnson company, including tools to use with high potentials-Completed 50+ interviews on transparency and fairness in career opportunities for a sales and marketing organization and provided qualitative and qualitative summary and recommendations-Designed and facilitated a very successful meeting with a marketing organization with low employee survey scores. Meeting created a forum for open dialogue, aligning on a new vision and engagement in building a focused set of actions to drive change.

Life Technologies (LIFE), is a $3.5B, 9500 employee global biotechnology tools company dedicated to improving the human condition by enabling researchers to accelerate scientific discoveries in personalized medicine, molecular diagnostics, and forensics.Vice President, Organization Effectiveness and Talent Development Promoted to Vice President in global, enterprise role leading: learning and development; talent management systems and processes; and organization effectiveness consulting. Team of 12.Created talent management processes that enabled CEO staff to align on a calibrated talent pool and identify high potentials for the combined company. Using to staff critical roles. Led organization assessment process to highlight people and organizational strengths and gaps to achieve strategic business results and cultural integration. Developed post-acquisition leadership behaviors with Executive Team. Drove integration into talent processes, including hiring, talent assessment, performance management. Leadership Forums designed so leaders acquire a teachable point of view that can scale throughout the company.

Molecular and Cell Biology BusinessesPromoted to senior HR leadership role for AB's largest business ($1.3B, 1800 employees globally). Led team of 10 senior HR business partners and dedicated compensation, staffing, and employee relations managers. Supported Division Presidents; SVP R&D, Mfg and Quality; Americas Sales President.-Partnered with new AB President/COO to develop and deliver his 100-day message and strategy for building employee engagement and confidence in the strategic direction of the company.-Led global HR integration for $300M Ambion acquisition. Retained key value creators; transitioned low performing leaders; recognized for outstanding employee engagement. Acquisition viewed as major success/source of new capabilities. -Architected the restructure of several global functions and business groups without business or employee relations disruptions. Recognized by Executive Staff for expertise in organization design.-Built business and HR leadership team, including recruitment and assimilation of 2 Division Presidents and 12+ VPs. Built staffing infrastructure to hire ongoing requisition volume of 100+. -Institutionalized several best practices for attracting, integrating and developing talent, including: director and above promotions; development plan reviews; pre-hire assessment and assimilation for senior level hires.Director, Human Resources, Business Groups Provided HR leadership to 3 VP/GMs representing entire revenue base for company ($1.7B, 500 employees). Served as integral member of VP/GM's business management teams. -Partnered with VP/GM and leadership team to redesign organization to reduce geographic silos, drive accountability, and align to market segments. Upgraded leadership team. Over 95% of employees confirmed changes achieved desired outcomes 18 months post-restructure.-Demonstrated HR leadership during $50M business divestiture. Designed 3-stage international workforce transition, including 200 person RIF.

Digital Linear Tape BusinessHR Director, Talent Acquisition, Development and Organization CapabilityBuilt new organization with team of 13 focused on architecting and implementing strategies and processes to enhance organizational performance and commitment of 3000 global employees.Led staffing function, including setting strategy and policies. Oversaw process through full cycle of accelerated hiring to hiring slowdown back to ramp up. Achieved hiring targets including time to fill (for 100+ employees) in building new development center; Designed and facilitated senior leadership forums to build commitment of top 70+ to lead changes in business strategies. Meetings consistently rated 4.5+ on 5-point scale for criticality to business success. Drove reduced operating expense and improved efficiency as change management lead on organization restructure for $1.4 B business. Results included: site consolidation, new product development process to accelerate time-to-market, and modified customer interface model to improve customer satisfaction.Hard Disk Drive BusinessManager, Organization Change & Talent DevelopmentReplicated individual success delivering OD/change management consulting expertise into a 5-person team serving the executive team and business HR VP of $3.3 B business with 5000 global employees. Key to successful reengineering of supply chain and product development processes. Drove change management strategy from merger announcement to deal closure to successfully integrate $2.3 B merger. Member of core HR integration team. HR Manager, Business TeamsCatalyst for ensuring "best in class" commercialization team system (benchmarked by Harvard Business Review and Fortune 100 companies) continued to deliver competitive advantage. Consulted with GMs, their executive staffs and 10 teams to optimize their performance. Designed and facilitated team and individual effectiveness assessments. Initiated changes in people and process.

Provided marketing and communications consulting to Weight Watchers, Johnson & Johnson etc. related to developing corporate wellness content and collateral.

Mba

Mba Fuqua School

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1987

Bs With Distinction