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I am an independent contractor/business owner and Master Facilitator. I specialize in Leadership Development training and strategy development for large, multi-national corporations and organizations. At Annex Learning Inc., we work with a team of partners, associates, and learning and development professionals. We match our skills and abilities with our clients' needs in the areas of Learning and Development, Meeting Facilitation and Teambuilding events. This means that our engagements will sometimes be direct and other times, through shared and sub-contracted services.Read my "Summary" above for more information.

Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States

In partnership with GPS, I deliver instructor-led leadership and communications training including Presentation Skills, Front Line Leadership, New Manager Development, Social Styles, Myers Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), and many more "soft skills" topics.Working with GPS, I have been a long-term faculty member of the New Manager Training program at UBS and have delivered Presentation Skills training at Webster Bank/HSA Bank since 2008. Other GPS clients have included Bayer, RBS, HSBC, Alianz, Deloitte, Harvard Business School, Honeywell, C.R. Bard, Varian Medical, Cartus, and many more.Along with GPS Founder David Gilman, I am co-chair of the GE HR Alumni Network, an organization of former GE HR professionals that works to promote networking and exchange of ideas and best practices among its membership.

Global

I have a long-term relationship with this Finance Training and Business Simulation firm, stretching back to my years at Crotonville when I hired them to do Business Acumen training for entry level development program members. In May of 2013, I joined TRI as an Associate and was asked to provide soft skills training to some of their clients. Under TRI, I became a lead faculty member of the CFO University at Dell Technologies and have delivered over 150 training programs in more than 17 countries at all levels of the organization. Other TRI programs and clients have included Cisco, Stryker, and Hubbell.

I had a fabulous eight year run as a member of the faculty at this respected Manhattan-based communications training firm. I received certification to teach Executive Presentation Skills, Sales Presentation Skills and Business Writing (Write Up Front) programs. Key clients include: GE Crotonville, GE Commercial Finance, GE Medical Systems, Honeywell, Yale School of Management, Sherwin Williams, Prudential Securities, Bayer, Aetna, Phillip Morris, Schering-Plough, Bristol Myers Squibb, Northrup Grumman, Marriott, Merck, Alliance Bernstein, and many, many more companies and organizations.

I was responsible for the strategic management of this 400+ member global entry-level training program at GE. Responsibilities included recruiting and hiring strategy and execution; then oversight of a 2-year development program that included four 6-month job rotations and a combination of technical, leadership and business training for new IT hires. This job involved overseeing these functions including vendor identification, working with a team of business-based reps, and budget management. I was also responsible for managing a pool of entry-level IT talent (40 members) located throughout Asia. Additionally, while in this role I earned Six Sigma Green Belt Certification.

I managed a leadership curriculum at GE Vendor Financial Services that focussed on the roll-out of a performance management process across the entire business. In this role, I helped shape the performance management process by designing and producing extensive internal communications to train managers and employees about their roles in the process.

Arguably the best job I ever had! I was responsible for GE's one-week entry-level leadership training program at the Management Development Center at Crotonville. My role was to conduct a needs assessment with top functional leaders at GE businesses, then manage a curriculum to meet those needs. As program manager, I set course objectives, then identified instructors and internal subject matter experts to teach the programs. During my tenure, we ran about 15 programs per year with 100-120 participants per program. About half of the courses were held in the U.S. and the remainder were offered in Europe, Mexico, Brazil, Singapore, Japan, China, India, Australia and more. In most locations, we ran programs in English, however, I learned to teach using simultaneous translation in Beijing, Shanghai, and Tokyo. During my tenure in this job, I earned certification to deliver the Myers Briggs Type Indicator -- one of my favorite subjects to teach.

As project manager, I was responsible for tracking and enforcing graduation requirements for GE's Manufacturing Management Program (MMP). I worked closely with the Corporate Program Manager who set strategy, determined competencies, and designed training programs. Then it was my job to follow-up and enforce the program requirements. My role included tracking job assignments for this 6-month rotational program, ensuring that members had exposure to a variety of aspects of manufacturing; and then helping program graduates identify permanent jobs upon program graduation. I also scheduled and tracked completion of the training programs required for MMP graduation. During my years in this job, I frequently worked closely with GE's campus recruiting group, sometimes participating in strategy meetings or delivering interviewer training; and other times, conducting invterviews on campuses in U.S. and Puerto Rico.

Here, I was fortunate to work with a small team (about 5, depending on how you count) of brilliant spokespersons. It was our role to create positions and respond to media querries at GE's corporate HQ. My specific beats included community service, educational relations and corp. advertising. I did traditional PR activities when GE would roll out a new TV commercial (ex: the anniversary of night football) or sponsor an Audubon documentary on PBS, for example. I was also responsible for overseeing photo sessions with GE's top executives including Jack Welch and Vice-Chairman Larry Bossidy. While on this job, I worked as a fact-checker on the first book that was ever written about the Welch years at GE: "Control Your Destiny Or Someone Else Will," by management guru Noel Tichy and FORTUNE Senior Editor Start Sherman. I worked closely with Noel, Strat and their researchers to provide information--then fact-check content--for this best-selling book.

My first job out of college.I was responsible for traditional Employee Communications at this, GE's largest (at that time) non-union manufacturing facility. I wrote and designed a bi-weekly plant newsletter, wrote speeches for plant management, conducted focus groups and brown-bag lunches, did community relations, organized employee events and outings, and more.

M. Ed., Human Resources Education

NY State Comps Topic: Retention in FORTUNE 100 Companies 4.0 grade point average

College Prep

B.A., Public Relations, Fine Arts

B.A., Public Relations, Fine Arts

All-University Class Marshal University Scholar Rhodes Scholarship finalist Phi Beta Kappa Member, University 100 (Campus Ambassador).