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Palo Alto, CA

San Francisco Bay Area

• Executive leadership development
• Defined, designed, researched and rolled out a new offering on leadership agility and innovation, including a new competency model.
• Enhanced high-potentials’ development at bp, AstraZeneca, JPMorganChase, and a $16B world-leading premium drinks business.
• Directed YSC Americas’ internal Learning and Talent function.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Independent performance improvement consultant.
• Revised Federal regulatory agency’s leadership requirements, given Congressional mandates.
• Facilitated global pharmaceutical company’s post-merger leadership integration programs to drive innovation and decision-making rights.
• Subject matter expert to a survey company’s efforts to develop a new talent instrument.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Talent management thought leader for major organizations in automotives, financial services, and other sectors.
• Enabled a financial services company’s strategic growth in new markets by crafting the talent strategy and job requirements for workforce capability to serve these new customer segments.
• Drove post-divestiture business unit integration and organization effectiveness by rationalizing global competency models to emphasize shared, rather than different, job family requirements.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Strategic and tactical leadership of high-performance culture solutions and ongoing programs for clients.
• Overhauled an automotive company’s talent management strategy: built a wider talent pipeline for mission-critical roles by articulating competency-based career path architecture and career development programs.
• Increased retention of a global law firm’s Generation Y associates: improved their recruitment yield and engagement through development of company-wide and office-specific culture factor-based interviewing, and.
• Assessed level 1, 2, and 3 executives for succession, selection and development.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Global Client Manager: Managed a global team of 100+ consultants to deliver a Fortune 20 high technology company’s post-merger executive development portfolio. Grew revenues 33%.
• Built a client-management organization structure to mirror the client’s structure, which became PDI’s model for improving its strategic client management.
• Led the design, development, training, and delivery of a year-long global high potential development program, using 360s, action learning, simulation, and coaching.Director, Coaching Services: Developed staff, drove.
• Created and implemented learning and development strategy - curriculum, development programs, conferences, and virtual learning teams - for coaches across the enterprise.
• Increased senior executives’ change leadership capability through coaching.

San Francisco Bay Area

• Practice Leader, Consulting Services: Led shared service for a health maintenance organization and managed department operations.
• Coached a regional executive team to higher performance during their leader’s sabbatical, resulting in their increased presence in and impact at the enterprise-wide level.
• Optimized resources by shifting the focus of change management offerings from training to just-in-time project team consulting, resulting in increased organizational implementation capability.
• Built performance-based culture through redesign of performance management system to real-time project-based evaluations, with multi-rater input into career development and evaluations.Engagement Manager, Consulting.
• Led enterprise-wide strategy and change implementation assessment, to increase traction on electronic medical records initiative.
• Synergized project and change management methodologies with IT, and created new learning and training agenda, to align with new organization design and growth agenda.

San Francisco Bay Area

• General Manager: Promoted to chief operating officer of a management consulting company.
• Led company’s strategic planning process, and established the company’s off-shore operations.
• Increased revenue by accelerating development of senior consultants into strategic account management through competency-based strategic talent management.Director, Organization Development: Quickly scaled-up.
• Accelerated pharmaceutical client’s global post-merger integration through rapid-cycle development of consultants delivering a suite of leadership programs.

Phd, Psychology

Master’S Degree, Social Work

Ma, Shakespeare Studies

Bachelor’S Degree, Creative Writing