Cara Meyer Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon Metropolitan Area

• Full cycle team dynamics assessments and development using the NeuroLeadership Insititute's SCARF assessment.
• Team cohesion workshops.
• Assistant coaching.
• Leadership development.
• Team values mapping and culture building.
• Individual player development coaching.

• Collaborated on teams with other consultants on a range of strategy and organization development projects across multiple industry sectors.
• Contributed to the development of in-depth organizational assessments as well as the development and execution of client strategy and operational improvements.
• Led the project management on each assigned engagement, anticipating future workstreams and client needs.
• Utilized core practices, frameworks, methodologies and approaches to client work (strategic planning, facilitation, change leadership and executive counsel.)
• Contributed to firm-building activities such as representation at conferences and articles for publication.
• Supported Coraggio’s business development efforts for example identifying additional opportunities within client projects, brokering introductions, and helping to develop proposals.

Portland, Oregon, United States

Portland, Oregon Area

• Operated as an internal consultant, leadership coach, and change manager
• Developed and rolled out an internal coaching program in the Americas resulting in 70% participation rate.
• Founded a diversity and inclusion working group, and collaborated with TUSK Consulting to roll out a region-wide assessment, goal-setting, and improvement process.
• Co-designed and co-facilitated new ways of working leadership training based on Frederick Laloux's Reinventing Organizations teachings. Pulse surveys showed a 40% improvement in motivation around the concepts by the.
• Designed a leadership development curriculum.
• Compiled and presented employee engagement and psychological safety survey data, and led region-wide annual workshops.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Developed and facilitated values and culture definition workshops for a national LGBTQ+ rights nonprofit organization.
• Designed and led workshops for employees to co-design company emergency and anti-harassment policies for a local sex-positive retail franchise in Portland, OR.
• Provided leadership and employee development coaching.

Louisville, Kentucky Area

• Organizational assessments: employee engagement surveys, focus groups, observations, and interviews for small businesses and cause-based organizations.
• Diagnosis process: collecting and presenting data, creating reports, facilitating discussions.
• Change implementation: visioning process design and implementation, one-on-one leadership coaching, project management, ongoing support.
• Special events: women’s empowered leadership workshops. 100% participant satisfaction rate.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Produced a three day, three location photoshoot with 15 working physicians and 10 volunteer models at medical facilities during business hours.
• Managed the development and deployment of a new talent acquisition website: nwpermanente.com
• Developed a collection of print materials and banners to support new branding for the talent acquisition and recruitment team.

Louisville, Kentucky Area

• Planning & facilitation of peer feedback implementation workshops
• Design & implementation of peer review surveys
• Managing evaluation process
• Executing data analysis, compilation & distribution
• Reducing participant resistance through relationship development and communication

Louisville, Kentucky Area

• Managed web development and social media projects with budgets exceeding $150,000 for clients such as John Frieda, Transit Authority of River City, Jacuzzi, Sun Tan City, and Texas Roadhouse using Agile and waterfall.
• Designed an employee interview and onboarding process and assisted in planning biannual company-wide professional development workshops.
• Created weekly production schedules for the entire 60 employee agency.
• Analyzed all project productivity, budget and efficiency reports on a monthly basis with the CFO.

Louisville, Kentucky Area

• Designed culture definition process for nonprofit dedicated to local family farms.
• Managed public relations and media strategy for legislative advocacy related to Kentucky agriculture issues.
• Implemented new brand standards, social media, and communication plan for the organization to more effectively communicate with stakeholders. Increased Facebook shares by 25% in 3 months.
• Redesigned and built new website using Wordpress.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Developed print and digital promotional materials for national water protection nonprofit to increase communications with donors and partners
• Managed video campaigns for annual conference and fundraising.
• Increased partnership retention rate by 30% in 2 years by increasing quantity and quality of partner communications.
• Increased monthly donations 15% by setting up online recurring donation system integrated with Salesforce
• Served on Staff Executive Committee, supervised interns and volunteers.

Lexington, Kentucky Area

• Managed and coordinated ~250 web content update projects per year.
• Edited copy and formatted graphics using Adobe Creative Suite.
• Increased usability by assisting with a complete website redesign

Lexington, Kentucky Area

• Expanded international systems implementation by assisting in the development of a sustainability rating system for colleges and universities.
• Solidified relationships with colleges and universities by coordinating new memberships and renewals.

Master Of Arts - Ma, Organizational Psychology

Bachelor’S Degree, Organizational Communication

Activities and Societies: Multicultural, Class and Gender Studies. Murray Environmental Student Society. Ultimate Frisbee.