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Burbank, Ca, Us

Provide leadership for learning and talent solutions in countries outside of the US to drive business results and ensure an optimal employee experience. Solutions include leadership development, talent / succession planning, performance management, career development, on-boarding and learning.

Burbank, Ca, Us

Lead company-wide HR Center of Excellence responsible for creating, managing and continuously improving and scaling talent and learning processes. Talent ManagementSuccessfully enabled a progressive employee experience by helping leaders transition from being `part-time evaluators’ to `full-time coaches’ via a focus on year-round Quality Conversations. Introduced a career and performance process and technology to clarify aspirations, set commitments and engage in continuous feedback for 50,000+ employees, contributing to positive engagement results. Designed and implemented talent and succession planning processes and technology to capture talent data and identify potential successors. Learning and DevelopmentPrepared 200 high potential executives for greater levels of responsibility via a data driven individualized assessment, action planning and learning process that was over-indexed for diversity. The organization gained insights to inform talent decisions and participants gained insights into the leadership requirements at the next level via feedback exercises and a story based leadership summary. Designed and implemented development programs including individual and group executive development, coaching and mentoring.Executive Talent Staffing and DevelopmentDefined the leadership, role and cultural requirements for 300 VP and higher roles. These position profiles and associated assessment exercises helped inform executive selection, development and onboarding decisions. Designed and implemented an enterprise-wide process to showcase diverse, ready-to-move talent and identified 75+ possible internal candidates for open executive roles. Diversity Equity and InclusionDefined and introduced Quality Conversations concepts and tools, led the introduction of Leadership Guiding Principles, put an inclusive leader feedback assessment into place, integrated DEI into the executive coaching practice and implemented executive development DEI programs.

Burbank, Ca, Us

Led an enterprise-wide effort to improve and integrate talent management processes. Developed starting point solutions for scaling talent forecasting, succession planning, performance management and executive leadership development.

Burbank, Ca, Us

Led Parks and Resorts HR Business Partner professional services team of 30 HRBPs supporting client groups Finance, HR, Marketing, Sales, Facilities and Technology. Enabled business strategies by delivering integrated and inclusive HR services, such as: Strategy Development, Organization Design, Talent Management, Learning Solutions, Work Force Reduction and Employee Relations.

Burbank, Ca, Us

Led the Parks and Resorts Organization Development function comprised of 32 professionals. Accomplishments included enabling a business-wide reorganization that consolidated separate theme park resort sites and support functions. Delivered over 250 OD projects per year ranging from aligning and communicating strategy to organizing work and people to change management. Seven percent of these projects were measured to the ROI level resulting in a net savings of $2.5 million. Previous role was Manager, Organization Development.

Burbank, Ca, Us

Led a team of OD Consultants. Implemented a departmental business, organization and people strategy inclusive of service offerings and work processes. Promoted from OD Consultant.

Atlanta, Georgia, Us

Designed and facilitated development programs that utilized action learning. Consulted on change management and team effectiveness.

Designed and facilitated organization improvement interventions, leadership development seminars related to cultural change and business simulations.

Facilitated computer based simulation exercises for strategic and financial training seminars.

Master'S Degree

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba)