I hadn’t planned on being a learning facilitator, but the course of my career changed in 2000 when I volunteered to be a graduate assistant for the Dale Carnegie Course. A senior facilitator advised me to become certified to deliver their content. His advice was heeded, the certification process began, and a life’s passion was found. Over the next few years I conducted six 12-week courses, earning evaluations that exceeded global benchmarks. My enthusiasm and expertise led the company's leaders to ask that I coach and mentor three junior instructors.The door to Nielsen opened in 2006 because of my extensive business-to-business sales experience and training certification. As Director, Internal Learning & Development, I worked with client-facing teams in Nielsen’s US Media business – facilitating consultative sales, negotiation and presentation skills classes, speaking at conferences, conducting needs analyses and developing learning curricula, among other duties. As the “ambassador” of the U.S. learning organization, I was honored on three occasions by a special request from Nielsen’s Vice Chairman – to be one of a handful of people hosting her international guests from the Fortune/U.S. State Department Global Women’s Mentoring Partnership.The scope of my responsibilities grew to reach colleagues and stakeholders across Nielsen’s global business portfolio. In 2014, I conducted a train-the-trainer on four continents, certifying leaders from over 20 countries to facilitate the sales and negotiation programs that I wrote and developed. To-date, over 1,000 client-facing associates have participated in their classes.In 2015, I took my passion for leading learning programs and formed Actionable Learning Corp., providing contract facilitation of consultative sales, negotiation and presentation skills classes. Nielsen was my first client.
Listed skills include Leadership, Coaching, Training, Training Leadership, and 46 others.
