Deb Arnold Email & Phone Number

Seattle, Wa

I help talent leaders from top companies gain recognition for excellence and thought leadership, with winning learning awards applications, resources, coaching and training as well as strategizing on, writing and/or editing conference speaker proposals, presentations, articles and blogs, book chapters and more. My near-perfect win record includes nearly 200 awards including thrilling #1 victories on the Training APEX* (8x), CLO LearningElite (3x), ATD BEST and Learning! 100 Awards as well as the prestigious Chief Learning Officer of the Year Award, dozens of Brandon Hall Group Excellence Awards and more. My A-list clients have included Accenture, Best Buy, BNSF Railway, Dollar General, Haskell, Hilton, Jiffy Lube, Keller Williams Realty, SAP, Walgreens, YUM! Brands and other top performing companies.*Formerly Training Top 125

Seattle, Washington, United States

Lead efforts on the Talent, Rewards & Experience (TRE) team to share and celebrate, internally and externally, Accenture's innovative strategies, practices and achievements: >Conceived and launched an enterprise support program for applicants to the Brandon Hall Group HCM Excellence Awards; these innovative tools and resources, unique at the global professional services firm of 730,000+ employees, helped nearly triple Accenture’s wins across talent domains (from 66 in 2020 to 182 in 2023)>Lead/wrote Accenture’s top-three winning submission to CLO magazine’s 2022 LearningElite Award, a key L&D ranking, based on 50+ stakeholder interviews. Scripted “thank you” video for award gala featuring TRE leaders.>Drove and developed TRE content for wide-ranging rankings (such as Fortune Great Places to Work), ratings (like Refinitiv, Dow Jones Sustainability Index, MSCI), and key corporate reports (360 Value Report and others), partnering closely with TRE leadership, Marketing & Communications, Investor Relations, Legal, Controllership, dozens of SMEs, data professionals and others.>Crafted messaging, storytelling and impact metrics for diverse TRE initiatives, including widely used client-facing “Learning Story” overview presentation and a.com training page.

Developed nationwide strategic plans and initiatives to support sales teams in core T-Mobile channels (15,000+ employees; 40,000+ partners), guiding director-level leadership. Designed and launched sales team meeting programs for all T-Mobile retail stores, partner account reps, B2B field teams. Crafted integrated annual communications plan for Business Sales division based on analysis of extensive field research and channel goals. Named interim retail communications lead in third week at T-Mobile; created/executed integrated meeting and communications strategy, delivering first meeting to 1,200 stores in under five weeks (store manager satisfaction 90%+).

Provided a range of strategic communications consulting services to clients in the high-tech and non-profit arenas.

New York, Seattle

Helped grow Microsoft account from start-up to second largest at top-ten agency YRB in under 18 months. Played key role in Seattle office opening, coordinating global teams in direct, branding, interactive and ethnic marketing agencies in 50+ offices worldwide. Managed internal communications and crafted key strategic presentations for board-level internal and client leadership. Created and produced quarterly virtual meeting for all global team members. Led key client projects (internal and customer-facing). Conceived, developed and delivered account onboarding program that was so successful it was turned into a mandatory online training. Reported directly to Global Client Leads.

New York, New York

As my first rotation in a post-MBA Young & Rubicam Brands management training program, I supported new business at direct marketing leader Wunderman. Developed presentations, RFP responses and pitches, including successful bids for HP, United Healthcare and Gannett. Position continued on the Microsoft account, serving the client under the YRB parent company.

Jerusalem, Tel Aviv

While living overseas, established and managed niche English language communications consultancy serving non-profits and high-techs. Provided Israel-based international clientele with marketing and public relations strategy development and project management for broad range of print and online content and campaigns. Crafted English language promotions for the most successful exhibit in the history of The Israel Museum, the country’s national museum.

Executive Education, Personal Leadership (Online)

Mba, Marketing, Management

Activities and Societies: Chazen Fellow - selected to help launch school's online journal of international business President, Columbia.

Ba, International Relations, Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Selected for New England Conservatory Choir; Tufts female a cappella singing group Study abroad: La Universidad.