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As a Randstad RiseSmart Executive Career Coach, I coach an organizations' executive and professional talent through different stages of their careers, from onboarding to supporting new and existing career goals, including transitioning to new opportunities. Coaching is provided through a customized 1:1 approach with full support to empower individuals to unleash their worklife possibilities. Coaching helps support an employee's well-being at work and future-proof themselves through planning and commitment to skills development. Our clients have business challenges that RiseSmart can positively impact by leveraging our coaching-centered approach and innovative, award-winning tech platform to the greater benefit of organizations and individuals alike. Together with our clients, our purpose is to unleash possibilities for talent to positively enhance, develop and change their worklife, benefitting both the individual and the organizations for which they work.

Sarasota, Florida, United States

SUMMARY OF QUALIFICATIONSTraining & Development: I am a Certified Professional Coach (CPC) with over 20 years of experience creating, facilitating, and managing learning and development activities for individuals, groups, and teams. Feedback from those I have served has consistently described me as calm, articulate, thorough, patient, open-minded, and insightful; and, I have received awards and commendations for performance and service quality throughout my career. I strongly value the diversity that has been a consistent feature in my work: I thrive when engaging diverse audiences about diverse subjects in diverse environments.Communications & Media: I value articulateness, clarity, and style in all forms of communication, though I have a penchant for writing and related activities, such as editing and proofreading. I have been called on to provide writing support to executives and authors throughout my career; and, I have self-published a collection of short essays. Additionally, over the course of my progressively responsible professional history, I have demonstrated proficiency in curriculum development, digital content creation, social media management, messaging and marketing planning, media buying, copywriting, graphic design, and technology-assisted group presentations. Program Coordination & Quality Control: As a professional and entrepreneur, I have maintained a steadfast focus on envisioning, designing, implementing, and sustaining efficient, outcome-oriented, customer-satisfying programs and services. I also have a clear track-record of effectively evaluating and responding to the developmental needs of individuals and organizations through the use of both qualitative and quantitative methods, including interviewing and surveying, data collection and analysis, SMART goal planning, and case management.

Sarasota, Florida, United States

Bradenton, Fl

Palmetto, Fl

Richmond, Va

Manager, Patient Service & Marketing, OrthoVirginia (2008-2010). A newly-formed position to facilitate the growth of a regional leader in orthopedic specialty care servicing more than 190,000 annual patient visits. Introduced and managed a variety of internal programs and protocols to assess and enhance the patient experience, including on-boarding new employees, providing patient care and administrative staff with targeted training, implementing and evaluating the result of patient satisfaction surveys, modifying and clarifying workflows and roles, and improving data collection, evaluation and reporting measures.Spearheaded multiple pilot programs to improve organizational efficiency, patient satisfaction and employee satisfaction, including centralized scheduling, focus group facilitation, employee wellness programming, and corporate brand development and management.

Columbus, Oh

Program Coordinator/Career Counselor, Columbus City Schools Department of Adult & Community Education (2001-2008). Held several progressively responsible positions within the adult vocational/technical training department of a large urban school district. Managed multiple essential student and customer services, including customized training, admissions, student accounts, and student transitions.Contributed to departmental strategic planning and policy and procedure development through grant writing, faculty leadership, and advisory board coordination.Developed program proposals and master plans governing the structures, methods, and outcomes of core and contract-based education and training programs.Designed and delivered curricula and training materials covering a variety of adult workforce education topics, including writing, career development, and cultural diversity.Provided career assessment, counseling and planning services to students, citizens, businesses and immigrant populations. Developed marketing materials, program policies and procedures, and workflow standards for a complex, performance-based labor market program that served hundreds of dislocated, displaced, and transitional workers.

Columbus, Oh

Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor, Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission (1994-2001). The premier organization responsible for administering federal employment programs for Ohioans with disabilities. Assessed the employment needs of individuals with disabilities via interview, medical records review, and work simulation, often involving collaboration with community-based rehabilitation professionals.Provided eligibility determination, career counseling, career planning, progress evaluation, and case management with sufficient proficiency to be awarded Counselor Dream Team honors in 2001.Developed extensive knowledge of body systems, disease and disability processes, medical treatment modalities, and rehabilitation practices in the role of Disability Claims Adjudicator for the Ohio Rehabilitation Services Commission from 1990-1994.

Certified Professional Coach (Cpc)

Education record

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Sociology And Anthropology

Bachelor'S Degree, Sociology And Anthropology