Deb Kolenc Email & Phone Number

St. Louis County, Missouri, United States

Greater St. Louis Area

Talent Management professional, experienced in communications, change management, talent management, training and supervisory roles. Provide talent management support for Global Food Strategy group. Provide organizational change and communication tools for various global initiatives.

Brown Shoe Company

Talent Management professional, experienced in communications, change management, talent management, training and supervisory roles. Solid track record as a strategic partner, coach and facilitator. Skilled communicator, with notable selection, training, organizational and planning abilities.

 Assured planning and execution of organizational change activities in the areas of sponsorship, stakeholder commitment, organizational design and overall business readiness and user adoption.  Assured development of effective partnerships between ERP project teams and relevant stakeholder (business) teams to further organizational change management and business readiness strategies. Monitored progress of change management deliverables per work stream. Executed specific organization change management deliverables including change impact workshops, behavior training and awareness sessions for all employees, organizational change initiative plans and templates for functional teams for job impact assessment. Assess, prioritize and helped manage areas of individual and cultural resistance to increase the readiness for change.

Led planning and execution of organizational change activities in the areas of sponsorship, stakeholder commitment, organizational design and overall business readiness and user adoption for 50 million dollar SAP implementation. • Successfully prepared end users and Super Users to do adopt SAP by Go Live for each module. SAP modules implemented included: Product Lifecycle Management, Human Capital Management, Warehouse Management, Finance, Apparel and Footwear Systems.

 Managed the selection of talent in area of Governance, Finance, Shared Services, Wholesale and International. Assured timely investigation, follow-up and ongoing communication with client groups regarding associate performance. Assured consistent employment processes and practices. Facilitates coaching and performance counseling. Oversaw Performance Measurement Process by maintaining profile and position description process, and providing direction to clients on process of objective/ initiative setting, professional development process, and annual performance evaluations and compensation adjustments. Partnered with client groups in analyzing and determining appropriate organizational structure, recommends position changes, and pay adjustments Managed the onboarding program for new associates. Assured dismissal decisions are made in an appropriate and consistent manner Provided training and development tools and opportunities for management in conjunction with the Training department.

 Provided appropriate content and evaluation of programs that support and deliver improved performance of all Corporate and Naturalizer Retail employees to:o Increase skill competency and speed individual successeso Provide professional developmento Facilitate leadership learning Developed, implemented, and continually improved programs and processes to provide:o Store Training Programso DSM and RSM Training Programs o On-boarding program for Corp and Storeso Train-the-Trainer sessions to grow existing talento Technical Training Programs

Bba, Business Management

Activities and Societies: American Marketing Association

Masters Of Arts, Coursework Toward Human Resources Development

Activities and Societies: American Marketing Association