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Grand Rapids, MI, US

Grand Rapids, Michigan, United States

• Moved projects from conceptualization, to planning, to done - on time, at budget, and as promised
• Key example: managed the biggest website deployment in the agency's 20+ year history
• Collaborated with account executives to anticipate and meet future needs of clients
• Key example: cultivated client relationships that resulted in the agency's two largest contracts of 2024
• Drove multi-channel digital and print ad campaigns, delivering new clients to our customers with each campaign

West Michigan

• Initiated and iterated project management principles and practices (including waterfall and Agile frameworks) for a team of 8 project managers and 40 first-line, Generation Z workers that were previously over-budget.
• Researched and implemented Prosci Methodologies (both the PCT Model and the ADKAR Model) to lead the strategic pivots and change management processes required by dynamics related to the Covid-19 pandemic
• Spearheaded a project to redesign and facilitate virtual and in-person post-pandemic training for individuals and teams in the areas of leadership assessment and organizational development, leading to a 200% increase.
• Developed a team culture of inclusion, mutual support, and shared responsibility on a team with a variety of diversities including gender, age, ability, and ethnicity, leveraging the gifts of each team member over the.
• Deepened connection with 800 donors and managed an annual team budget of $500,000 raised entirely from that donor base, ending each year in a budget surplus

West Michigan

• Collaborated with partners across four states to innovate the hiring, onboarding, and professional development process, resulting in 10 new managers fully onboarded across the four state region
• Supervised and managed a local team of 4 project managers in implementing 20 annual projects each, realizing a vision of increased organizational effectiveness and personal and professional growth

West Michigan

• Supervised and forwarded the training processes for 250 front line workers annually in key success traits of innovation, emotional intelligence, character, and communication
• Developed and retained 3 project managers through their first 3 years of employment resulting organizational consistency and growth from 1 university campus to 3

Colleges And Universities In Grand Rapids, MI

• Conceptualized, planned and executed the project of recruiting, training and managing 65 of new front line workers to established a start-up branch of the organization on a new university campus which resulted in.
• Overhauled and rebuilt a leadership pipeline model to elevate the skills and voices of BIPOC and neurodivergent participants, resulting in sustained leadership that continues to produce new leaders even after.
• Created and sustained stakeholder support from 150 funders and stakeholders resulting in sustained financial partnership for an average of 10 years per person, fully supporting a $100,000 annual budget that funded 20.

Supported organizational growth by developing summer programming and hosting summer volunteers

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Spanish Language And Literature

Google Professional Certificate, Project Management