Emily Peterson Email & Phone Number

This position extends previous work with a focus on how all FLIK associates meet and build their careers at FLIK including Campus Recruiting, MIT & Internships, the Sous Chef Development Program, the Readiness Rubric Library and bringing Orientation back to an in-person experience

United States

Lead a team of senior stakeholders to re-engage the national business as we return to operations post-Covid. Our work focuses on creating an architecture across all divisions of the business to ensure that every associate returning to FLIK, or joining for the first time, lands comfortably in a role that they love. By collating the people operations.

Greater New York City Area

• Serve as a strategic partner to the executive team to build company culture and successfully implement innovative human capital solutions supporting business growth
• Apply expert knowledge in organizational assessment & design while developing, implementing and evaluating change management programs and organizational problem solving processes
• Partner with the executive team to plan for our short and long-term people needs
• Lead the organization to deliver best-in-class people operations including building the strategy and leading team in recruiting and retention, learning and development and employee relations on-boarding, orientation.
• Develop procedures that align with the business goals and perpetuate continuous improvement
• Be a role model and mentor on organizational design and assessment methodologies, standards and change leadership

Montclair, NJ

Online course management and hybrid teaching on Canvas, mentorship and advising.

Parsippany, NJ

• Approve the annual financial plan and $75mil budget and setting the property tax rate and all user fees
• Establish policies and programs for the effective delivery of Town services
• Provide consultation on development of Master Plan and insurance service
• Provide ordinances, and resolutions, rules, and regulations for the welfare of the Town
• Liaison to Environmental Committee, Transparency Committee, and the Parsippany-Troy Hills Public Library

Write, test & edit Make It Tonight (MIT) and feature recipes.

Greater New York City Area

Small business owner. Created menus, budgets and production plans for catered events and family meal planning. Resource management including food cost, packaging, time management, food safety, HAACP, ServSafe.

Greater New York City Area

• Produced 2000+ recreational classes per year with a $4.5m gross annual income,
• Initiated and redesigned proprietary curriculum. Implemented a run-of-show curriculum design for experience continuity for 200+ classes
• Modernized instructor access of curriculum material to cloud-based learning management system
• Initiated monthly feedback meetings with chef instructors
• Initiated systematized professional development training program for chef instructors
• Orchestrated scheduling, hiring and performance appraisals of chef instructors including management of recruited guest chef instructors

Greater New York City Area

Developed curriculum and recipes and taught Intro to Food & Food Science, Advanced Food, and Regional Techniques. Assess student growth, provide professional career advice to undergraduate and graduate students. Online course management and hybrid teaching on Courses CMS.

Anywhere, USA

Produced and hosted 150 episodes of Sharp & Hot. Featured on CBS This Morning and iTunes “New & Notable." Served as non-profit board trustee of Heritage Radio Network.

Greater New York City Area

Designed and executed events for the public and private clients including unique menus & wine pairing. Client list includes Bel Brands, Toyota, Phillip Morris, Chateau-Ste Michelle. Recipe writing and editing. Budgeting of time and resources.

Greater New York City Area

Developed and executed recreational cooking classes and a culinary summer camp for 11-16 year olds, including recipe writing and editing.

Hoi An, Vietnam

Created hospitality curriculum for training in preparation for careers in international five-star hospitality venues including Marriott and Disney

New York, NY

CEO Scott Pollack & I worked to create interactive cooking events for corporate events (team-building, client entertainment, conferences, etc.)

New York, NY

Greater New York City Area

Recipe development and event production of live cooking demonstrations at farmers' markets

Hempstead, NY

Delivered professional development training for professors seeking to incorporate technology into their curricula. Online course management and hybrid teaching on Blackboard.

Delivered interactive professional development training to educators in New York City and New York State seeking to modernize their teaching and integrate educational technology into their classrooms.

New York, NY

I taught second and sixth grade in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn as part of the NYC Teaching Fellows.

Brooklyn, NY

Planned and produced fifteen annual public events ranging from 75 to 60,000 attendees, including The Cherry Blossom Festival, Chile Pepper Fiesta, and Ghouls & Gourds.

Masters Of Science

Culinary Arts And Hospitality Management

Bfa, Graphic Design, Fine Art

Activities and Societies: Resident Adviser, Program Manager at Student Development & Campus Activities (SDACA)

Education record