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Charlottesville, Virginia Area

Improve organizational performance by:· Coaching employees and leadership· Identifying issues and problems and recommending solutions· Facilitating meetings to address process improvements· Interviewing and assessing job applicants to hire employees with desired attributes· Planning events to influence culture

Charlottesville, Virginia

Coach and consult with vice presidents and executives to motivate and help them think and act differently in order to become better and more effective leaders.Designer and project manager for Leadership Excellence class.Conduct studies to improve performance and or processes.Facilitate team building, process improvement and conflict resolution meetings.

Virginia

Help leaders to develop their interpersonal and relationship skills, achieve a higher level of self awarenessand find their authentic leadership voice in order to increase their own and their employees’happiness and productivity.

Charlottesville, Virginia Area

Evaluated training effectiveness.Chairperson for Employer of Choice and Employee Retention initiative.Needs analysis and corresponding recommendations for project management teams and new employee orientation.Responsible for select corporate communications.

Greater Boston Area

Worked with business leaders to investigate organizational effectiveness themes including: leadership, knowledge and learning, innovation and change, and collaboration and community.Assessed member concerns and interests, conducted literature reviews and wrote synthesis articles.Designed, planed, facilitated and evaluated quarterly learning events.Coordinated project back-office operations including continuous improvement of learning events.

St. Charles, Illinois

Managed subject matter experts and support staff to design and produce highly successful training courses and programs.Designed, planned, and managed multiple international training and knowledge sharing events for 30 to 1,000 participants (budgets of up to $1,600,000).Project Managed personnel, budget ($450,000) and work plan for Integrated Merger Solution which was deemed successful enough to adopt firm-wide.Negotiated deals with vendors to provide just-in-time instructor-led and self-paced training opportunities to internal staff (calculated savings of over $500,000).Worked with universities to create customized training opportunities for Andersen personnel (saving the firm both time and money).Conducted needs assessment to determine needs and wants of practice.Taught soft skill classes on team building, communication, time management and decision-making.Designed user interface for software which assessed risk in merger integration.Supervised design, creation and editing of multimedia material.Wrote and edited material and articles for internal and external publication.Coached and developed consultants and associates.

Taif, Saudi Arabia

Responsible for teaching American Language Course (DLI) to Saudi military.Designed placement tests, created unit tests and worked with remedial students.

Maryville, Missouri

Responsible for all aspects in the establishment and operation of a for-profit intensive English language program. This included: determining program goals, strategy and curriculum, marketing and recruitment, teaching, counseling and advising students, budgeting and financial planning, event planning, managing orientations and directing a host family program.Coached teachers in various teaching methodologies and principles of learning.Presented program’s successes at professional conferences.Hired as a consultant to assist in the design and set-up of a new language program at California State University, San Marcos.Develop Continuous Quality Improvement criteria in an attempt to win the Malcolm Baldridge Award.Exceeded expectation for profit generation by two years.Within first 12 months of operation, student sponsor organization rated program as, “best language school” compared to six previously existing programs.

Syracuse, New York Area

Taught reading, writing, listening and speaking and grammar classes to international students.

Tokyo, Japan

Teacher of reading, writing, listening and speaking for students planning to study in the United States.Responsible for class scheduling, text selection and curriculum design.

Safat, Kuwait

Instructor of composition and general English language skills.

Bloomington, Indiana Area

Teacher of reading, writing, listening, speaking and TOEFL preparation classes.PLATO (computer) coordinator for C.E.L.T. students and staff.

Seoul, Korea

Responsible for teaching oral English communication to college freshman.Planned a variety of communication activities using audio-visual material to develop communication skills

Ed.M., Education Administration

Activities and Societies: President of BRIDGE Group

M.A., Applied Linguistics

M.S., Instructional Systems Design

B.S., Biomedical Communications

A.S., Liberal Arts