Building a team that delivers world-class organizational design, leadership and executive development programs and team effectiveness coaching and interventions.

Lead Talent Management strategy and deliverables for North America. Manage and analyze overall health of leadership pipeline. Identify key trends and focus areas. Influence and engage senior leaders through annual NA talent events. Manage executive succession planning process for North America. Lead talent management team in data analysis and reporting, talent management processes and consulting with and enabling the HR organization in delivering on talent strategy.

Manage strategy of BASF North America leadership pipeline including alignment with NA Senior Leaders and HR Leadership, identification and implementation of programs to strengthen and develop overall pipeline, and communications to drive and support organizational strategy and KPI’s. •Identify, recommend and implement best practices to maintain overall health of leadership pipeline •Consult with senior leaders, Human Resources, and business units to align talent strategies with business needs and continually drive cultural change necessary to support objectives •Manage and facilitate major annual talent events to engage, involve and educate senior leaders (North America Talent Summit, Talent Forum and Strategic Dialogues) •Partner with talent acquisition to influence and support internal movement of leadership candidates; develop and recommend slates for key regional positions •Collaborate with HR partners to develop, design and assess effectiveness of leadership development programs and talent strategies•Act as career coach and advocate for leadership candidates, debrief and coach participants in Regional Development Centers (Korn Ferry via Edge assessment) •Consult with global colleagues to identify and align best practices across regions •Manage and develop overall strategy for Job Family Communities within North America; act as consultant and advisor to commercial job families, including Regional Marketing Council, Regional Sales Council and Business Management Job Family•Develop and lead learning for HR Community for annual Talent Review cycle; manage strategy and execution of talent review process and approach•Develop and implement Succession Planning approach for non-executive positions within region

Managed the implementation of the Employee Development Process in North America. Designed, facilitated, sourced and managed overall curriculum for developing 2500+ managers’ skill and mindset in developing employees and managing performance. •Partnered with leadership teams and HR community to expand the organization’s focus and knowledge of employee development and assessing talent. •Led project to design, communicate and distribute first North America Learning & Development Catalog to ~16,000 employees throughout North America •Managed initiatives and projects to expand existing Leadership Development Curriculum; conducted quantitative and qualitative needs analyses to build solutions •Managed and negotiated vendor relationships for workshop design and delivery •Facilitated large and small scale skillbuilding, change and train-the-trainer workshops to build manager and HR community skills •Represented North America on Global Employee Development team; collaborated to build global programs, processes and approaches; supported team through design and delivery of skillbuilding and best practice sharing workshops •Partnered with L&D Teammates to manage overall LMS; participated as member of assessment team to test and identify new LMS; participated in design and implementation as SME

Manage, resource, facilitate, assess and design training and change management needs for a population of approximately 200 Customer Care Employees located throughout North America. Training programs include Onboarding/New Hire, Professional Skills, Communication Skills, Business Process & System (SAP) Skills, Personal Development and Leadership Skills. Act as partner with Leadership to manage and assess performance issues; support organization through small and large scale system and culture changes. Customize individual group training needs and coach individuals as necessary.