Current Role: Senior Leader in EV Battery Storage and repurposing business - Optimizing leadership team for the launch of nationalnew battery storage facilities. Key responsibilities include building an efficient executive team, ensuring operational readiness, and developing strategies for launching and scaling battery storage and repurposing plants. Aligning advisory team’s goals with the company’s vision, securing key partnerships, and navigating regulatory requirements to accelerate facility development and market entry. Get ready America.

With over 20 years of expertise in Organizational Change Management (OCM), Augment offers customized solutions designed to tackle complex challenges and create outstanding experiences for clients and employees. We work closely with executive leadership teams to design, facilitate, and oversee the implementation of change initiatives across diverse sectors, including business and higher education. Our comprehensive services span strategic planning, technology adoption, and enterprise-wide transformations, emphasizing leadership alignment, communication, and impact analysis. Additionally, we engage in business development, focusing on strategic partnerships, talent planning, and workforce development, to ensure effective change adoption and achieve impactful project outcomes.

Serve as a senior change management consultant (Change Advisor) and support Learning & Development with Training Needs Assessment & Delivery as part of Hitachi's Change Adoption Services practice.

Serve as a professor of practice in the MS in Learning Design and Technology Program.Courses: Leadership in Virtual Learning, and Program Assessment & Evaluation

Collaborate with organizational leaders and their teams to co-design and to support successful organizational transformation: org redesign, change management, executive performance, business advisory, promote enterprise-wide culture of learning and development, growth mindset, high-performance teams, adult learning and development, learning management systems and adoption of AI for learning and development. Emerging expertise in AI strategic and ethical use guidance within organizations.ADAPTOVATE offers an exceptional experience in energy and utilities, healthcare, hospitality, consumer, education, and financial services, aerospace, public service and government.Energy Clients' Highlight. ADAPTOVATE has helped global Energy and Utility companies with their digital transformation to deliver tangible business and customer value. At one of the global energy companies, we helped deliver:* $200 million cost avoidance identified in the business unit within four weeks.* 85% reduction in cycle time for capital projects.* 20% increase in number of outlets carrying branded products.Learn more: https://www.adaptovate.com/industries/energy-and-utilities/

Managed team of organizational development and business strategy consultants/advisors to deliver enterprise--wide strategies and processes with C Suite leaders across US to develop, assess, facilitate and/or lead organizational development interventions, programs and processes to support business objectives and strategy implementation. Supported exec alignment, employee relations and coaching. Org alignment focus - analyze organizational structures, responsibilities, reporting relationships and work processes to determine solutions that will increase organizational effectiveness. Worked with multiple PE firms to assist with alignment across acquisitions (90/10 HR policy and practice alignment / ee handbooks, etc), Managed the survey and assessment psychometric team, facilitating employee engagement surveys and evaluated the impact of the resulting action plans. Used metrics / reports to demonstrate ROI on OD work to show impact across multiple levels of the organization. Demonstrated ability to attract and hire top talent.✰✰ Org Design & Change ✰✰ Executive & Management Team Alignment, Development and Coaching ✰✰ Talent Development & Lifecycle Programs ✰✰ DEIB ✰✰ Build High Performance Work Teams & Culture Development ✰✰ Business Strategy & Planning Facilitation ✰✰M&A✰✰PE Strategy✰✰ Talent Acquisition✰✰Performance Management✰✰

Collaborated with Provost, Associate Provost, and Program Chairs to support growth and development of College of Business and Management: college accreditation, faculty recruitment, program review, program and course development, and migration to new learning management system. Supporting Programmatic growth and expansion, developing online faculty training and serving as a University strategic plan committee member planning for the next five years. January to June 2018. Outlined and launched the IACBE accreditation process. Served and supported a broad range of domestic and international students that fostered a culture of diversity and inclusion.Core Adjunct College of Business & Management June to Present.

Collaborated with CEOs and their leadership teams on organizational optimization initiatives. Leverage business strategy to identify critical outcomes and key metrics to achieve breakthrough performance: change management, leadership training and development, organizational effectiveness. An early pioneer of diversity, equity and inclusion/belongingness in leadership and organizational development consulting. ✰✰ Executive & Management Team Alignment, Development and Coaching ✰✰ Talent Lifecycle Programs ✰✰ DEIB ✰✰ Build High Performance Work Teams & Culture Development ✰✰ Business Strategy & Planning Facilitation ✰✰M&A✰✰PE Strategy Talent / Culture Acquisition Alignment✰✰

Led Graduate School of Business and Management in new program development, program updates, corporate partnerships, association alliances, college growth strategy, pursuit of ACBSP accreditation, and online campus alignment. Supported & high level of collaboration Student and Enrollment Services level planning on matters pertaining to student body composition, admissions, metrics for results, financial services delivery, career development, planning and services, and admissions.

SPL was an affiliate of the National University System. eLearning solutions provider offering a full range of services customized to drive success of online learning programs. Developed online learning models and frameworks to improve experience. Led growth from 12 staff to team of 50 with 8,000+ monthly enrollments and annual revenue from $1M to $4M plus with long-term clients, including National University System. Drove new business development efforts with clients that included Yahoo!, Microsoft, and other academic institutions. Prior to President was General Manager 2003 to 2004 of Spectrum, promoted from Business Professor Leading the Human Resource Management Program for National University.

Leadership Development, Operations Training via branch teams, HR policy and procedure training

Human Resource Development and Organizational Behavior faculty