Executed and delivered legal analysis and risk assessment to ensure protection of assets (fiscal, image, physical property, and intellectual property). Collaborated with general counsel to anticipate legal needs, train constituents in legal issues, and build tools and knowledge-based collateral material. Evaluated legal matters allowing executive leadership to make informed decisions. Partnered with and directed human resource staff in identifying and solving workforce issues and creating strategic plans. Appraised programmatic prospectus documents for legal implications and provided comprehensive review of program requirements to executive management. Planned and collaborated with external counsel to define and meet global business objectives. • Trained 50 employees on legal concept fundamentals and contract creation. • Protected 125 intellectual property assets through trademark monitoring, saving two marks from abandonment. • Negotiated cease and desist of trademark infringement of company’s intellectual property during high-income holiday season, saving company from suffering from market confusion by potential donors and redirecting traffic to company’s site.

Collaborated with director to create diversity, talent retention, and employee engagement initiatives for global workforce. Conducted trainings on policies and employee orientation subjects. Planned and facilitated employee mediation sessions. Facilitated employee career assistance sessions as well as personal counseling sessions. Strategized with legal counsel and director in workforce planning. Planned and conducted transition workshops and outplacement services for staff members. Oversaw internal policy creation process. • Coordinated with director to plan and launch annual employee survey and analyzed results for subsequent action plans. • Served as manager and external liaison for internship program. • Led project to create company’s first comprehensive diversity and inclusion curriculum.• Created education plan to train employees on content while executing training-of-trainers, leading to heighted awareness of issues within organization and resulting in increase in employee engagement. • Planned, coordinated, and executed transition of 60 members of workforce.o Completed transition with zero legal actions or complaints.

Managed and executed Little Rock-based volunteer program. Promoted organization in six-state region by delivering presentations, conducting print/radio/television interviews, cultivating donors and volunteers, meeting with foreign national and community leaders, and serving as spokesperson. Recruited, trained, and managed volunteer committees totaling over 100 members. Authored, designed, and presented education materials to create volunteer Speakers’ Bureau to promote company. Developed and maintained external relationships within community resulting in repeat donations to company and solid base of donor support. Secured $50,000 in donations and in-kind gifts for company.

Assisted in management and direction of external relations division as senior administrator. Co-created and monitored administration budget. Managed and tracked all executive documentation, reports, and analyses. Liaised between division leader and internal and external constituents. Directed cross-divisional projects and supervised cross-divisional teams. Planned and coordinated External Relations Team Day for 80 staff resulting in team building and increased camaraderie.

Streamlined company’s contract formation process by setting office procedure and by editing contract manual. Designed and maintained database repository for all executed contracts. Helped facilitate inter-departmental decision making and long-term strategy identification. Interfaced with other legal professionals to determine best practice recommendations. Coordinated enterprise effort in collection and repository creation for all contracts resulting in increased efficiency and budget savings.

Authored and designed curriculum to teach nonprofit management class. Instructed on aspects of management unique to nonprofit agencies. Created presentations, activities, and materials to introduce principles of public relations, marketing, program development, ethics, governance, and volunteer and human resources management. Created environment of critical thinking, analysis, and application where students gained knowledge of management principles from seasoned practitioner.

Little Rock, Arkansas, Law Clerk, 2001-2002. Researched family, tort, contract, and employment law issues in preparation of civil petitions, legal briefs, and memoranda. Drafted court documents in preparation for filing within Pulaski County judicial system.

Conducted telephone interviews with English and Spanish speaking clients to determine customer satisfaction levels for a major communications provider. Translated and transcribed Spanish interviews for research purposes. Trained and monitored others to conduct research in both English and Spanish.