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Global Human Resources Business Partner and Leader who develops strategy and supports multi-billion dollar industry leaders through a career in Talent Management and Organizational Development (TMOD) leadership honed at Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Kraft Foods Global Inc., and Aventis Pharmaceuticals. Highly experienced using the organizational development life cycle, from hypothesis, data, and analytics insights, diagnosis, and creation of strategy or intervention, implementation, measurement and sustainment. Data-driven leader, innovative problem solver and leadership coach, partnering with executive teams and across the business to develop and deploy rigorous short/long-term strategies in culture, talent, change management, and OD to anticipate and solve challenging issues, support business growth and people development.Research Interest(s): Organizational Justice during Times of Organizational Change, Embedding DEI in Executive Coaching, and The Human Side of Mergers & AcquisitionsLeadership Achievements:• Global Business Partner: Led HR for 8 Novartis sites in U.S., Europe and Latin America across Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain businesses, executing strategies for 2000 employees with 12-person team. • Transformational Global Strategy: Devised future-focused global talent management strategy across U.S., Europe and Latin America, serving 2000 employees. Developed HRBPs’ business partnering and employed strategies to increase collaboration within both the HR team and across the business sectors.• Cultural Transformation: Led cultural transformation at Novartis following a company acquisition, guiding senior managers to serve as change agents. Gathered key data, provided recommendations to senior leadership, gained approval, and led action plans. Measured effectiveness by gathering and analyzing data.• Organizational Development: Spearheaded major global development of an oncology Biosimilar Clinical Development team (Novartis) in U.S. from group, with leaders in Germany, including organization design and RACI processes, strategic recruitment plan (internal/external), and global training.• D&I Leader: Leading D&I for Novartis across 4,000 employee division, working with sales and marketing to embed D&I is HR processes, as well as address disparities in health care, supplier diversity and psychological safety.

Listed skills include Talent Management, Organizational Development, Leadership Development, Coaching, and 14 others.