Ej Encalarde Email & Phone Number

New Orleans, La, Us

Greater New Orleans Area

In my current role with Festival, I provide vision and direction for the country's most successful entertainment production company, leading the execution of strategies developed by top management team. My purview includes oversight operations for multiple departments including Live Music, Event Operations, Administrative, Human Resources, College Intern and High School Mentoring, Volunteer, and Sustainability. My relationship-building abilities have been key in establishing partnership and trust with CEO and executive team.• Expanded overall team effectiveness and production capabilities developing and implementing hands-on coaching and teaming strategies.• Ensured positive event organization and execution by managing aspects of music production and heritage fair departments.• Delivered senior production services for multiple large-scale events locally and globally, including The New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, The Essence Music Festival, Bayou & Buckeye Country Superfests, Presidential Inaugural Celebrations.• Delivered diverse, multigenerational, high-performing teams in competitive live event and entertainment industry through effective management of strategic, long-term challenges.

New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

Greater New Orleans Area

Starting my own company has allowed me to leverage my wide-ranging business insight and expertise to enable high-performing leaders and world-class team builders to transform work and life experiences through integrative coaching and consulting. I begin by gaining a clear insight into each client’s needs through individual assessments and conversations, then developing strategies and action plans designed to optimize our outcomes. My services include high-impact coaching and group facilitation, specializing in team and personality dynamics, performance, and life design coaching. In addition, I facilitate Consulting, Work + Life coaching plans, Retreats, Group Sharing Sessions, and a one-of-a-kind Total Transformation & Meditative Soaking program.Representative projects:• Formulated organizational plan strategies with an advertising company, creating visual workplace culture mapping tool to drive mission clarity, purposeful alignment, and team building. Increased Team productivity and engagement with bottom-line impact on business trajectory of successful events produced. • Developed/designed short-term and long-term individualized career plan using personality assessments, discovery questionnaires, methodologies, and job-search tools to best align with client’s personal / professional goals. • Expanded coping/mindset mechanisms for business teams and entrepreneurial clients, driving behavior modifications for improved performance, team building, leveraging existing strengths.• Completed Beta launch for multigenerational cohort-based leadership development program designed to maximize performance and results in the marketplace. Blended approach incorporating experiential online instruction, exercises, virtual mentor group coaching sessions; 1:1 coaching supervision calls, reading, exercises, reflection, and mindfulness coaching sessions. External evaluation measured gains in productivity and engagement in process-oriented behaviors for work/life fulfillment.