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Chicago, Illinois, Us

London, England, Gb

Redwood City, California, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Surry Hills, New South Wales, Au

I had the incredible honor of leading the super-smart, talented People Group at Canva! We worked hard to scale all things People and Culture while on a hypergrowth rocketship. Since late 2019, we grew from 500 to almost 2,000 employees.About Canva:Canva is a global visual communications platform on a mission to empower the world to design. We have a current valuation of USD 15 billion following a USD 71 million investment. This latest valuation affirms Canva as one of the fastest-growing software companies in history, surpassing $500 million annualized revenue this year.Canva has over 55 million monthly active users and achieves a 130% year-over-year increase in annualized revenue while remaining profitable.

Santa Clara, California, Us

Hitachi Vantara, a subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd. in Japan, is a $4 billion data storage, software, analytics, and IoT company. Led a global team in crafting our Talent strategy for 8,000 employees. Served as a strategic Talent partner to executive leadership. Responsible for creating, implementing, and maintaining leadership development, team effectiveness, change management, succession planning, talent review, performance management, career development, and employee engagement programs in alignment with business needs.Key Accomplishments:● Led Performance Management transformation with outcomes that include increasing goal-setting participation by 120%, performance conversations by 10%, and saving 20k+ work hours annually● Implemented critical talent and change management initiatives during significant business transformation; maintained exceptional engagement and retention rates● Designed and implemented Global Leadership Summit for 300+ global leaders with incredible 90%-99% positive survey results● Designed and implemented new talent planning and succession strategies, processes, and tools● Tripled leadership development program offerings and re-designed coaching and assessment practice● Implemented global competency framework to support significant digital transformation

Lakewood, Colorado, Us

Led global Talent team to implement enterprise employee engagement and change management strategies to drive customer-centric cultural transformation for 6,000 employees in 32 countries. Responsible for leadership development, global onboarding, executive leader assimilation, employee engagement, change management strategy and numerous organizational development initiatives.Key Accomplishments:● Skillfully redesigned global onboarding process; launched new-hire orientation program; significantly reduced turnover in 1st year● Led large-scale organizational design effort in operations/manufacturing business unit affecting over 1,000 employees resulting in significant recurring cost savings● Created and deployed comprehensive Employee Engagement Strategy; launched 1st engagement survey to 3k global employees in 32 countries, which achieved a 91% response rate● Led global performance management strategy including selection and implementation of a new Human Capital Mgt. system

Charlotte, North Carolina, Us

First 5 employee. Responsible for establishing core people processes capable of supporting rapid growth of start-up. Echo Park has just surpassed 1 billion (USD) in revenue. Led Talent Acquisition and partnered with executive leadership to create a comprehensive, culture-based learning and development organization aligned with enterprise business objectives. Key Achievements:• Orchestrated $1M world class training program for associates of all levels. • Created and launched leadership development program portfolio to enrich the skills of high potential employees• Designed and implemented an employee engagement strategy capable of driving a 76% engagement rate• Conceptualized and deployed progressive performance strategy that led to 80% associate retention rate

Worldwide, Oo

Served as strategic partner to Chief Learning Officers of 2-business units; developed and delivered comprehensive programs to build a leadership pipeline and lift individual, team, and organizational effectiveness.Key Accomplishments:● Championed High Potential Program to support growth/advancement of 250+ emerging leaders● Essential contributor to launch of Deloitte University, an $11B world class learning facility● Delivered 2,000 learning programs annually to 15,000 personnel in classroom, virtual and e-learning platforms

Worldwide, Oo

Led the Program Management Office for the global implementation of an organizational development initiative to increase employee engagement and performance known as Mass Career Customization (MCC). Responsible for applying mass customization principles to talent development practices and developing and deploying the change management strategy to identify change readiness levels, engage stakeholders and promote change. Successfully implemented MCC to 38,000+ employees in the US and India.Key Accomplishments:● Led global implementation of MCC to 38,000 employees; Successfully enabled 25% lift to career-life satisfaction

Worldwide, Oo

Managed multi-member project teams for Fortune 500 clients focusing on business and information technology process improvement and redesign, strategic planning, change management, and organizational transformation. Specific client industries included health care, manufacturing, retail and hi-tech.

London, Gb

Successfully led enterprise-wide Oracle system implementations and other technology projects to identify inherent risks in systems used to support client business objectives; Promoted from Associate to Sr. Associate.