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San Francisco, California, US

Seattle, WA, US

Being a “Chief Talent Officer” for each of the client groups I support is a delight! I get to ensure their talent cycles run smoothly and achieve the desired outcomes. I get to initiate new mechanisms where there are opportunities in the talent lifecycle — to help us drive talent retention, create visibility into equity gaps, and ensure our leaders are.

Seattle, WA, US

Global Specialty Fulfillment is made up of multiple lines of business each with unique customer solutions, but one fundamental need -- hire and develop great leaders. As a Sr PM and team leader in GSF L&D I get to support this need directly through program design and implementation in the GSF network, focused on onboarding and training new leaders.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• I have been lucky to be a part of the Drift team from 100 employees to almost 400 employees today. It has been a wild ride, and I've been able to do some pretty cool things like...
• Creating our powerful Leadership Principles, that we now use to hire, onboard, and grow our team
• Building and running Drift's very first onboarding program, training 200 new team members in 2 years
• Designing and implementing a company-wide training program on goal setting and process improvement that we lovingly called "engines"
• Coaching some of our amazing people managers
• Building an entire performance management system

Boston, Massachusetts, US

Santa Monica, CA, US

• During my time as a "Hulugan" I built their very first Talent Development function, leaning on my L&D roots and expanding my skillset to the broader Talent Management space as I did things like...
• Implementing a Learning Management System (LMS), Cornerstone on Demand
• Training a 50 person talent and organization team on a new project management methodology
• Designing and managing a team off-site program, facilitating department strategic off-sites
• Designing and executing quarterly goals process to align talent development initiatives with business priorities
• Designing and implementing a comprehensive engagement dashboard for executive team

Seattle, WA, US

• Do you remember when Amazon started delivery packages on Sundays? Well, that was made possible because of a magical network of middle mile operations sites called "sort centers." And I got to own all things training.
• Partnering with Safety and Quality leaders to implement a comprehensive metrics dashboard to identify training gaps
• Designing and facilitating a train the trainer program, enabling 8 regional technical trainers
• Project-managing a training "jump team" for 4 site launches, training over 200 associates for each site

Seattle, WA, US

• I am at my happiest when I am in the classroom, and I was quite lucky to be in the classroom with thousands (literally) of Amazon operations leaders for my two years in this role. How cool is that?! I loved doing.
• Designing, managing, and facilitating a core leadership onboarding program within the North America Leadership Development Institute, training over 1200 leaders annually
• Managing a 50-person faculty, running train the trainer and facilitator coaching programs
• Managing our onboarding process improvement training program
• Designing and facilitating an immersive 2 day leadership simulation program

Las Vegas, Nevada, US

• With a core value like "Create Fun and a Little Weirdness" I felt right at home in Zappos customer-centric and a little quirky culture. I am so glad I said, "yes!" to being a founding member of the Zappos Pipeline.
• Designing and running our company onboarding program, onboarding over 2000 new associates across 3 sites
• Creating our first ever professional development offerings like resume building and interview skills, to give our Zapponians opportunities for growth
• Running a few awesome cultural initiatives like our quarterly All Hands and our Culture Cultivators hi-potential program
• Designing and managing a 6-week manager onboarding program, onboarding 40 managers over 9 months