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Blue Springs, MO

St. Joseph, MO

• Champion cultural initiatives across teams to foster an intentional organizational culture promoting the behaviors of accountability, agility, and intrapreneurship.
• Consult with senior business leaders and partner with HRBP’s across the company on team development and learning needs to cultivate organizational learning that enables strong execution of the BIAH strategy.
• Drive change management initiatives and lead large-scale change projects in collaboration with the business and HR.
• Develop and deliver training for teams of 5 to 1,100 employees using a variety of media and approaches based on the needs of a multi-site and field-based organization.
• Coach leaders individually following self and/or 360 style assessments to interpret individual results, understand feedback, and determine next steps for development.
• Collaborate with local and global talent and learning colleagues on culture, performance management, and talent development topics impacting more than 10,000 employees globally.

St. Joseph, Missouri

• Facilitate Consultative Selling Skills ® (CSS) training for all Sales & Marketing employees.
• Observe, evaluate and coach consultative selling skills during two-day field rides with all specie Territory Managers during regular interactions with their customers.
• Deliver specific and product focused reinforcement training of consultative selling skills to sales representatives during regional and national meetings.
• Developed and facilitated a four-week on-boarding training for sales force as an additional Territory Managers were hired to grow the sales team by 30% as part of a sales force expansion.
• Customize and deliver leadership, communication, and management training topics for customers.

Des Moines, Iowa Area

• Developed technical material, managed new delivery mechanisms and implement Pork Checkoff funded certification programs including: Pork Quality Assurance Plus® (PQA Plus®), Transport Quality Assurance™, and Youth Pork.
• Planned and administered the $800,000 annual program budgets.
• Trained over 500 individuals from 33 states on techniques for enhancing facilitation skills.
• Developed, managed, and coached one full time employee and multiple summer interns.
• Traveled 40% both domestically and internationally to speak about certification programs, National Pork Board issues, and other industry related topics to a variety of audiences and learners. Serve as liaison between.

• Designed, developed and wrote curriculum for delivery by seminar facilitators that was targeted for undergraduate learners. Topics included personal branding, personal financial management, situational leadership, and.
• Facilitated leadership and professional development seminars for 700 undergraduates from 70 Universities at various regional locations throughout the country.