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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Pioneer is a management consulting firm specializing in business transformation, mergers and acquisitions, business strategy, strategy execution, data analytics and and organizational effectiveness—as stand-alone disciplines or in combination.Partner with individuals, teams, and organizations to set strategies, develop solutions and execute plans that help people successfully adopt new ways of thinking and working. • Identify and analyze the change, along with understanding key stakeholders and risks.• Create organizational alignment around the strategy and develop the plan to meet intended business outcomes.• Guide leaders and teams to initiate change with minimal business disruption and ensure business readiness.• Enable the organization to realize business results through adoption and sustained change.Currently working to support the finance transformation of a $160B producer and distributor of agricultural products: • Manage the engagement of business leads and end users for the world's largest S4/HANA SAP Central Finance implementation• Lead the engagement and development of 128 super users across 119 businesses in 32 countries • Program plays a strategic role in driving business partnerships and organization growth

Led an organization-wide learning strategy for a financial services firm to support their growth, customer satisfaction and employee engagement targets. Consulted with a national residential security and automation company to leverage VOC data to identify performance issues and drive improved business results.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

A diversified, $201 billion, Fortune 6 health and well being company serving the health benefits and health services markets through UnitedHealthcare and Optum. 260,000 employees worldwide. Promoted to lead the redesign of the organization’s talent management and development content on a new global digital platform, create a new Business English language program for international high potential financial employees and drive utilization of newly-created global learning and career resources. ✓ Set the strategy and led a matrix team of 30 to redesign how leaders and employees experience talent management, performance management, career and learning processes and tools on a new intranet platform. Reduced page volume by 60% and dramatically improved the ability of employee to find, learn and apply information. ✓ Partnered with U.S. and Indian senior business and human resource leaders to address performance issues influenced by language and cultural differences, including the creation of a Business English program for Indian high potential finance employees. All language proficiency targets, behavior objectives and program execution goals were exceeded. ✓ Championed a cross-functional team that redesigned the employee development process for the enterprise. Simplified the process by 25% and number of resources required by 40%.✓ Led the strategy, design and execution of career management learning programs leveraging the new intranet platform. Delivered 26 sessions for 6,000 employees in the first six months and drove voluntary completion of 7,000 assessments. ✓ Conceived and produced live virtual speaker career events with three international best-selling authors drawing over 9,000. ✓ Designed and facilitated rapid solution design workshops with senior leaders addressing compensation and technology service workflows.✓ Produced and managed quarterly L&D global virtual community meetings attended by 300 colleagues per event.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Managed a team of four training directors responsible for talent development strategy and execution of 2,700 finance employees, 250 talent acquisition employees, 125 emerging actuarial leaders, and 80 nurse high potential leaders, plus four program managers responsible for the planning, set up, execution, and tracking of enterprise professional development programs online, virtually and in person.✓ Collaborated with a cross-functional, enterprise wide team to create and implement an ongoing 5-year leadership development program for emerging actuarial leaders. Success of the program was measured in business’ ability to prepare and move targeted employees into new roles each quarter. ✓ Partnered with IBM Kenexa to research and develop a high potential leader assessment for supervisors and managers. Instrument was used for internal mobility decision-making, nomination program selection and leadership development. ✓ Worked with IBM Kenexa to create a leadership competency self-assessment. Included creation of 100+ company-specific development activities to build tailored individual development plans for emerging and mid-level leaders. ✓ Led four global career engagement campaigns addressing UnitedHealthcare and Optum's leading driver of employee engagement—career goal attainment. Directed program design, content, execution and measurement of webinars, podcasts, recorded sessions, virtual career fairs, leader-led events, guest speakers, self-directed assessments and on-demand learning. Each campaign exceeded expectations, including an enterprise campaign that yielded 21,000 participants .

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

New talent development position created to drive enterprise-wide learning strategy and drive development for 2,500 finance employees worldwide. ✓ Led implementation of technical finance competencies for senior leaders to analysts. Included website creation, communications, self-assessments, development planning sessions, and presentations. ✓ Worked with finance and human capital leaders to identify and address the top competency gaps. ✓ Led development of programs to address development gaps including programs in matrix management, employee development, technical accounting, health care industry acumen, functional acumen, account reconciliations and communication skills. Programs received quality scores above industry and internal evaluation benchmarks. ✓ Created the finance training website with role-specific development activities for 11 functions utilizing the 70/20/10 development methodology.✓ Worked with corporate and business unit finance teams to simplify the capital approval process for initiatives greater than $10M by creating an interactive web-based process map and performance support tool that improved efficiency and effectiveness. Led to similar project for an $80B business unit.✓ Conceived and directed creation of on-demand business acumen learning programs for 4 consecutive years using assets from the annual investor conferences.

Bloomington, Mn

Founded and managed a consulting firm known for delivering progressive learning, performance support and change management solutions for many of the world’s most admired brands. Clients included Medtronic, J&J, University of MN, Gerber, L’Oréal, Caterpillar, GMAC, Ecolab, Union Pacific Railroad, Patterson Dental and GE. Managed all aspects of the business including sales, needs identification, proposal creation, partnerships, vendor management, project management, solution creation, feedback and administration for client engagements in:- Business Process & Quality- New Employee Orientation- Certification Programs - Sales Channel Development- Product Training

Plymouth, Mn

Led employee performance consulting group in business problem identification, opportunity assessment, proposal development, solution design, and client relationship management activities. Engaged cross-functional teams from training, communications, reward systems, and measurement services in pre- and post-sale activities for program with budgets from $250,000-$8 million annually.

Certified Scrummaster, Agile

Mini Master Of The Lean Enterprise

Mba, Human Resource Management/Organization Development

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Business, Ed. Psychology, Training, Communications

Professional Training Certificate