Husband. Father. Disciple of Christ. Leader. Small business owner. Consultant. Innovative, with a love for people and a love for change, I like to serve as a multiplier for executive leadership teams, providing appropriate challenge and grit. I get excited about leading teams with adaptability and a cultural lens, creating environments for high performance that complement business strategies and positively impact results.Key Accomplishments Include:• Employer Branding: Advanced from 64th to 18th in industry rankings for new recruits and to 6th for experienced recruits, ultimately hiring 2000 software engineers annually, improving diversity by 20%, and achieving attrition of 8-10% in industry with norm of 20-30%. Developed employer branding strategy in highly competitive international market. Created unique hiring process with onsite team-based software challenges, becoming best in practice and used internationally throughout company.• Culture Change: Created culture of innovation and risk-taking; designed innovation labs, cross-business internal shark tank, and in-house start-ups to spur new concepts. Proactively and strategically upskilled and cross-trained through internal skills academy and multi-country Leadership Rotational Program, providing new exposure and driving profitable innovation, leading to hundreds of new patents and tens of millions in additional revenue.• Business Strategy: Directed all HR tasks involved with hiring 300 employees in greenfield location. Analyzed options to develop new software center in Latin America. Considered employee relations factors such as higher education, talent availability, unemployment rates, competition, and political and economic stability, culminating in selection of new location in Mexico City.Skills: HR Strategy • Business Leadership • Strategic Thought Partner • Change Agent • International HR • Employee Engagement • Organizational Design & Effectiveness • Employee & Labor Relations • Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) • Succession Planning • Mergers & Acquisitions (M&A) • Communications • Compensation • Talent Management • Transformation
Listed skills include Employee Relations, Change Management, Culture Change, Coaching, and 47 others.