I founded Daybreak Ideas with a mission: empower good humans to create great cultures that add value to people's lives. My specialty leadership and business scaling coaching program, Scale With Talent, helps entrepreneurs master hiring and delegation through leadership coaching, redefining their own roles, and innovative org design. For intact teams and organizations of all kinds, I offer facilitation, leadership development, and 1:1 and group coaching services at scale. Let's work together!A few recent examples of my work:• Developed a specialty 1:1 coaching accelerator for founders who are hiring their first teams or expanding their teams for the first time• Culture Transformation project for a country office of a global international development organization• Co-Creation capability transformation workshop with a university trying to create social mobility by helping more liberal arts students to land internships and succeed in the work world • Coaching several executives and founders on engaging their teams, building great hiring practices, sustaining high performance, handling sensitive employee relations issues, and evolving their departments to create more value.• Design and implement culture transformation strategies, focusing on integrating core values into day-to-day practices. Improve engagement and leadership alignment by conducting culture assessments and tailoring action plans for sustained change.• Coach senior leaders and entrepreneurs through strategic leadership shifts, improving decision-making, and fostering inclusive, high-performance work environments.Full Project CV is available by request if you're considering me for a culture project at your company.

Led culture, and organizational development initiatives for clients across the UN System, implementing culture assessments and change management strategies that aligned leadership behaviors with organizational goals, driving engagement and retention during critical transitions.Built change management toolkits and conducted workshops to support leadership and staff through organizational realignments, ensuring faster adoption of new processes and structures.Developed and delivered tailored coaching programs for leadership teams, enabling sustainable growth and improved employee satisfaction across diverse, global workforces.

Designed an entirely new Learning and Development function for this high-growth marketing agency (formerly W2O Group).Created a 3-year L&D roadmap to support Real Chemistry’s high-growth high-acquisition environment, improving alignment and collaboration across teams.Designed talent and leadership development programs using data-driven insights to enhance internal mobility and retention, offering tailored growth paths for high-potential employees.Built strategies for leaders to navigate cultural integration challenges, fostering stronger alignment with company values across a diverse portfolio of integrated opcos.

Redesigned the L&D function to directly support BMW’s shift from a bureaucratic to an employee-led culture, creating learning pathways that empowered staff at all levels to drive their own development.Launched, with an engaged group of collaborators, the Connected Culture USA network, which led to the establishment of BMW’s first Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), strengthening inclusivity and engagement across the organization.Implemented Agile workshops for non-IT staff, enhancing cross-functional collaboration and alignment between IT and business teams across BMW’s US Sales & Marketing HQ.Partnered with senior leaders to ensure learning programs aligned with BMW’s strategic vision, fostering a culture of continuous improvement and engagement.Developed leadership development frameworks to build capabilities in all levels of staff, ensuring talent pipelines were prepared for succession planning and growth.

Partnered with COO to run internal HR department with a focus on company growth, operational improvements, growing the internship program, and developing employees. Developed 2016 HR Strategic Plan.Handled Executive Recruiting for clients, placing a successful CHRO.Partnered with local universities to establish a design internship program.

Diamond Cutter Executive Services is the HR shared service center for The New Jersey Centers of Physical Therapy. Earned promotions 3x from progressive HR Business Partner / Generalist roles spanning benefits, payroll, policy, compliance, employee relations, ultimately creating and leading the company's first Talent Acquisition and talent management specialty position.• Attracted and retained high quality hires who both fit and strategically enhanced company culture and goals, holding turnover at 1% • Designed and executed full life-cycle sourcing, recruiting, interview, hiring, and onboarding programs and processes that increased offer acceptance rate to ~99% and cut time to fill for entry level positions down to 3 weeks from job post to onboarding• Partnered with senior leaders to create and sustain a positive action-oriented, teamwork-focused, self-motivated, service-minded company culture, supporting business strategy• Developed core aspects of the organization in collaboration with C-suite and management, including compensation structure, career ladder design, HR policies, and operational procedures using technology to gain efficiency• Led clinical and professional internship programs. Built clinical program from 3 uncertain relationships to 20 strong ones, then turned this program into company’s most important pipeline for Doctors of Physical Therapy, bringing yearly Doctor hires up from 1-2 annually (industry standard for private practice) to 6-10 annually. These programs won awards from Columbia and UMDNJ.• Led succession planning and partnered with senior managers to design career ladders for all departments • Served as one of two HR Business Partners, counseling senior executives, CEO, and associates on policies, organizational design, communications, and employee relations• Managed HR and business projects on a company-wide, cross-functional level, incorporating all internal clients, key employees and business processes