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HireRight is a global technology company providing background screening and workforce solutions with regional centers across The Americas, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.Support the talent lifecycle by providing tools, processes, and programs necessary to achieve our people strategy. Have introduced multiple global leadership development programs, succession management processes to more objectively identify growth potential, performance management approaches to drive greater accountability for achieving our targets, learning and development platforms and tools to ensure employees have the skills and knowledge they need to be successful, and selection tools and education to ensure hiring managers select the right employees for the right roles. Introduced an employee listening strategy to drive employee engagement and enhance the employee experience.

Silverado is a nationally recognized provider of memory care assisted living and palliative and hospice services. Silverado is improving the quality of life for the residents in their communities, and their hospice team is providing compassion, comfort and dignity to those at the end of their life’s journey. Talent management responsibilities included building the TM function, including leadership development, succession planning, performance management, employee listening strategies, talent acquisition, job design, and learning and development.

Apria Healthcare is a billion dollar healthcare organization consisting of logistics, call center, clinical, revenue management, and operations employees. Apria owns and operates more than 300 branches and call centers throughout the United States and BPO's across the globe and serves more than 2 million patients each year. Talent Management responsibilities included leading the teams and strategy to support the full employee lifecycle: talent acquisition, learning and development, corporate communications, organization development, performance management, employee engagement, and succession management.

Helped organizations achieve results by developing people, facilitating planning, and establishing best practices. Services offered included leadership development, strategic planning facilitation, instructional design and classroom facilitation (both live and virtual). Facilitated strategic planning and developed presentations to help a start-up organization successfully raise $5 Million in capital from private investors.

Led teams for two separate entities under Lehman Brothers, the fourth largest investment bank in the United States. Supported geographically dispersed employees in a global, matrixed organization. Conceived, developed, and co-facilitated a robust nine-month leadership development program with an emphasis on improving management processes in the organization. Increased formal recognition in the organization by 80% by co-developing and implementing a company-wide reward and recognition program. Facilitated group sessions to discover the mission, vision, and values of the organization. Launched and co-chaired a diversity network for female employees. Successfully introduced web-based product education to a geographically dispersed sales force. Increased effectiveness of executive team by facilitating their executive planning sessions. Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy in September 2008.

A Lehman Brothers subsidiary, closed Fall 2007.

Led Learning and Development organization of 20+ employees with a multi-million dollar budget. Supported an employee base of over 7,500 employees geographically dispersed across the United States. Conceived and piloted a 12-month leadership development program using a blended learning strategy to enhance development of a geographically dispersed management population. Helped launch a diversity network; piloted a development program for high-potential leaders which resulted in promotions for over 20% of the participants. Developed an executed an eLearning strategy that included selection of an LMS (SumTotal) and multiple tools (WebEx, Captivate, Articulate). Achieved a documented 227% IRR by partnering with business units to develop a company-wide intranet/portal that facilitated both work and internal connections and communication. Ranked in top 10% of all managers for highest employee engagement by department.Company filed bankruptcy April, 2007

Led an elite team of full time and contract instructional designers (virtual and local) to develop learning solutions for the home loans division of WaMu (now JPMorgan Chase). Formalized, standardized, and improved templates, policies, and procedures for the department. Integrated team members from three separate mergers. Helped design a strategy to hire and develop college recruits for home loans division.

Master Of Arts, Organizational Leadership

Graduated with a 4.0.

Masters Certificate, Organization Development

Completed certificate June 2009.

Bachelor Of Science, Business Administration, Finance