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Raleigh, Nc, Us

Wake Forest, North Carolina, Us

Wake Forest, North Carolina, Us

Green Stream is an environmental IoT company. We are making it easier and more affordable to gather environmental data for public safety, conservation and climate science. We provide remote sensors, wireless telemetry, cloud services and real-time data as a full service for governments, property owners, environmental professionals and researchers.My role as co-founder includes business strategy, revenue generation, customer relationships, internal operations, and project management. I work with a talented team of engineers, technicians and business people.

Serving businesses large and small, Linden Tree Learning’s aim is to help you develop the skills you need to run your organization smoothly and advance your career. Linden Tree provides training, consulting, instructional design and keynote speaking services for developing 21st century professional skills in leadership/management, collaboration/teamwork, strategic thinking, customer focus, critical thinking, creativity, communication and presentation, and personal effectiveness,.With over 25 years of broad international experience working with all levels of managers and staff from a variety of industries and countries, Linden Tree is ready to serve your business. - Training and management development- Coaching- Keynote speaking- Organization development consulting- Instructional design

New York, Ny, Us

American Management Association is a world leader in professional development, advancing the skills of individuals to drive business success. Since its inception in the 1920s AMA has been training generations of managers to perfect their skills. Organizations worldwide, including the majority of the Fortune 500, turn to AMA as their trusted partner in professional development and draw upon its experience to enhance skills, abilities and knowledge. As freelance faculty member I teach AMA courses at its various conference centers located across the USA.

Brussels, Brussels, Be

Management Centre Europe (MCE) is the largest international management talent development provider in Europe and the Middle East. We help organizations achieve implementation of strategy and change through their people. As a senior associate, I support MCE in developing its products, services and customer solutions leveraging my long experience in the executive education and talent development industry.

Brussels, Brussels, Be

Reporting to the Managing Director, I led a team whose mission was to build and manage MCE's capabilities, finding the right people and providing them the right tools to develop managers.- Recruited, developed and managed MCE's expert faculty network of ex-senior managers- Built and managed a portfolio of open enrollment management development workshops- Built and managed a portfolio of development tools used in MCE organization development solutions- Instructional design for both open enrollment and customized solutions business

Brussels, Brussels, Be

Reporting to the Director of Marketing, I led innovation and product development, conducted research, collaborated with subject matter expertsEnvironmental scanning - global business trends, industry trends, emerging markets.Research and development of core concepts for MCE's approach and workshops.Wrote white papers, articles, presentationsManaged relationships with the press and joint venture partners.Major contributor to MCE's corporate website and promotional publications.Social media strategy. Launch and management/moderation of MCE customer communities: MCE Future of Management, MCE Business-Focused HR, MCE Leading Change and Strategy Implementation, MCE Leadership Network for Women in Senior Management, MCE High Potential Network for Women Managers.Empirical research projects on management competencies.Joint ventures and relationships with AMA partners third party entities such as Satmetrix, Chally Group, RBL Group, Shaping Tomorrow.

Brussels, Brussels, Be

Management Centre Europe (MCE) is the largest provider of strategy implementation and business transformation programmes for international companies, wherever they have operations. Management consultancies usually only design strategies and reengineer processes. MCE is different. We enable individual managers and management teams to deliver on their strategic goals. To do this, we provide them with the necessary functional and cross-functional capabilities to measurably improve performance.I research global trends impacting company strategy, leadership and implementation of strategy. I develop and manage leadership, strategy, management skills, and customer focus capability and materials, working with a wide external network of subject matter experts and business professionals.I host and moderate several on-line social media communities:www.mce-ama.com/seniorwomen/linkedinwww.mce-ama.com/hipotentialwomen/linkedin

Brussels, Brussels, Be

Joined MCE during a turnaround.Deveoped and managed a product portfolio of programmes including leadership, strategy, innovation, hr, and management skills.Reworked "soft" curriculum to take a much harder focus on pragmatics and real business issues, differentiating MCE from competitors. This combined with better sales, marketing, and recruitment of business practitioners to lead the workshops increased MCE's leadership business, and allowed MCE to attract a much higher level of participant on its management workshops, as well as participate in more strategic projects and solutions with its customers.

Lausanne 25, Vaud, Ch

EHL is a globally top-ranked hospitality management school. Designed and taught Leadership & Negotiations curriculum on EHL's MBA in Hospitality ManagementTook a practical rather than a theoretical approach. Students applied leadership and negotiation skills in their group work, in their jobhunting, and in their lives and learned by doing.

Strategy-driven learning for today's and tomorrow's leaders.Specializes in executive and management development programs, based on business performance needs.Program design includes action learning, follow-through and evaluation.

Learning program design, follow-through and evaluation.Coaching services.

Lausanne, Ch

IMD is a globally top-ranked business school and executive education provider.Internal consultant/researcher role contributing pedagogical and business logic for IMD’s adoption of technologies to extend and enhance learning activities.Performed benchmarking study - how companies evaluate the impact of management development on performance. Researched executive education and e-learning industries, competitor activity, and pedagogical best practices and processes. Designed and implemented e-learning strategy, business plan and pedagogical model. Transformed programs to blended learning design, selected and implemented appropriate technologies to support learning and collaboration.Developed and executed innovative technology-based learning activities in collaboration with subject matter experts. Co-authored and presented papers describing pedagogical approach in various academic conferences.

Lausanne, Ch

Set up and nurtured virtual learning community, facilitated virtual activities, interfaced between participants and teaching team. Set up, maintained, and populated learning portal, coaxed participants to use technology via innovative interactive tutorial and one-on-one support. Supported EMBA participants’ distance learning in terms of design, execution, tracking, feedback and synthesis of assignment projects.

Lausanne, Ch

Counseled prospective clients on program selection, and conducted follow-up in sales consultant role. Co-developed Middle East, Africa, Indian Subcontinent markets.Set up automated prospect tracking and statistical reporting system. Trained colleagues on product knowledge, customer service and use of technology. Mentor to new colleagues.Wrote proposals, promotions and presentations for corporate accounts, researched regional markets, sourced prospects, organized and participated in promotional events abroad.

Small independent financial planning firm, also brokering life insurance/annuity products and tax sheltered investments.As paraplanner, I was responsible for the new software that modelled individual financial/tax situations and looked at impacts of proposed investments.I also handled customer service for the client base, applications, billing, transfers, death claims.

I was the office clerk for the central Virginia branch of this armored car services company. Duties included payroll, sales communications, and secretarial support to the general manager.

First job as a student was waiting tables in a Chinese restaurant. Excellent education in creating customer delight, optimizing movements to be fast and efficient, juggling multiple priorities, teamwork, and first introduction to a multi-cultural work environment.

Mba, Innovation & Knowledge Management

Internal Development Program