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Greensboro, Nc, Us

Greensboro, North Carolina, United States

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Raleigh, North Carolina, United States

Greater St. Louis

Greater St. Louis Area

In this role, I led people and operations strategy in 4 states handling billions of revenue and delivering service to customers across 14 sales teams. I coached 4 managers and 25 advisors and provided exceptional hiring, sourcing, team development, succession planning and training. • Facilitated hiring process for organizational realignments by developing a framework, creating and executing programs, and hiring new team members.• Led several strategic efforts to transform culture, develop and recognize employees through People Development Team focusing on continuous improvement, Lean Training for leaders and employees and managed a global customer service competency alignment initiative.• Partnered with internal Supply Chain and Commercial Regional Leadership Teams to drive business growth and achieve business targets and was a recipient the Illinois Game Changer Award.

Greater St. Louis Area

At Monsanto, I directed projects for executive and senior leaders and guided numerous people development and community relations initiatives.• Launched Employee Volunteer Program to encourage engagement and volunteerism that achieved 21,000 community hours, 1,100 volunteers, 1,500 projects and 350 organizations the inaugural year. I created presentations and trained 500 new hires during orientation on human resources volunteer policy and procedures.• Served as the CEO’s organizational planning liaison achieving record donations of $67M for the St. Louis region and reducing campaign spend. • Implemented the first online auction securing attractive gifts from local CEOs and companies. • Served as board member for diversity and inclusion business networks and facilitated sessions to increase new member enrollment.

Greater St. Louis Area

As Operations Lead, I served as chief-of-staff to President and was responsible for project leadership for the global vegetable leadership team. • Defined strategic initiatives, developed timelines and metrics to hold team accountable to deliverables in alignment with business strategy and operational plans that helped identify cost savings. • Advanced two out of three Marketing Excellence Award nominations as finalists through effective negotiations.

San Antonio, Tx & Greater St. Louis Area

During my time in the Animal Agriculture business, I managed a 50-person staff generating and delivered operational support for all customer programs and communications for the entire United States. I also coached a dairy sales region of 3 sales managers and 35 sales representatives for the Western half of the United States.• Directed the sales team and served as consultant responsible for managing business challenges including product allocation, freedom to operate issues and high employee turnover prior to divestiture activities.

Greater Atlanta Area And San Antonio Area

During two consecutive sales roles, I managed an agricultural chemical, traits and seed sales and 12-person team in Georgia, Alabama, and North Florida and the crop protection business and 10-person sales team and regional accounts in Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico.• Achieved revenue and income targets above targets, provided organizational direction, leadership of programs and initiatives including professional development training. • Achieved 2002 Master Sales Award, the highest sales award as the team leader.

Greater St. Louis Area

While serving in HR, I executed the staffing process from sourcing, forecasting and recruiting strategy to offer development and on-boarding coordination for the commercial organization supporting 5,000 employees. • Designed and implemented Field Sales Trainee program decreasing time to fill open roles by 50%.• Recruited at 25+ career fairs and conferences to source top quality talent and enhance relationships with key colleges and organizations in two years. • Compiled and analyzed staffing projections, including consideration data for affirmative action plan ensuring 100% compliance.

Kansas City & Greater St. Louis Area

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Agriculture Economics

Activities and Societies: Valedictorian, Dean’s List, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Georgia Cooperative Development Intern, Cooperative.

Master Of Science - Ms, Agricultural Economics

Activities and Societies: Graduate Fellowship, Agricultural Economics Club, Monsanto Intern

Master Of Arts - Ma, Human Resources Management