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Design, orchestrate, and execute high-impact internal events, with a focus on enabling our company and culture success as a hybrid workforce.Lead planning and logistics for all event elements, including content and speaker management, event logistics, branding, social elements, and internal/external event communication, to ensure that both hybrid and remote employees have an equitable experience and equal opportunity to fully participate in our company culture.Manage the entire event and production budget, including preparation, negotiation, and accurate forecasts; alert management about any risks and make recommendations for corrective action.Establish standardized event procedures, track event KPIs, and identify areas of opportunity for future events.Understand Box's brand and contribute to developing overall events, activations, and experiences that reflect it.Drive employee engagement and experience strategies and communications that help to connect employees to Box and forge an emotional, intellectual, social bond with the company, with a focus on enabling our company and culture success as a hybrid workforce.Establish action planning methodologies and programs that address gaps in the employee experience; partner with leaders at all levels of the organization to track, deliver, and report on results.Deliver insight by utilizing data from pulse surveys, employee focus groups, and other experience data to provide meaningful insights and trends to leadership.Establish success criteria and evaluate event impact; prepare stakeholder and executive-level post-event follow-up and make recommendations for improvement.Maintain knowledge of trends, developments, and best practices in employee retention, morale, recognition, productivity, and incentives.Build connections with activated Boxers to get a sense of trends, problems, etc. Be directly involved with the employee experience for Boxers who are fully remote, hybrid, and in office.

Jeffersonville, Indiana, United States

Box is a SaaS company, building products to empower our customers to always have secure collaboration with anyone, anywhere, on any device. Box has over 2,000 employees around the world.Drive cross-functional team to plan, create and implement health and safety protocols, practices, and procedures to return to work safely and manage our COVID responseCreate and maintain, with input from cross-functional team, policies and processes to help Box remain compliant with local and country COVID-19 guidanceDefine and drive approvals for Covid-19 related policies and processes including: Work from Anywhere, Return to Office, COVID Prevention Program, travel, health and safety, etc.Drive enablement for all health and safety protocols and office re-entry, including training, FAQs, COVID Portal updates, and response communicationOversee and 10x the office re-entry process, system, and toolsEstablish project governance processes that enable timely decision making and issue escalation and resolutionCommunicate project status, risks, issues, and dependencies to a broad array of business and IT stakeholders across the company

Facilitates the development and implementation of CRG’s annual plan and manages the overall and day to day operations and resources of the CRG; measures and reports on impact.Responds to the needs of CRG members, including serving as an advisor on matters related to social crisis response and the wellbeing of members. Partners with the DEI/People Team on inclusive and equitable solutions.Leads regular CRG leadership team meetings and CRG All-Hands with the broader CRG members. Seeks opportunities to share best practices and collaborate with other Sprout CRGs on programming, and maintains the central DEI events calendar with updated CRG programming.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Collaborating with senior leaders on office reopening and transition to hybrid model, including ticketing and safeguard systems, vendor negotiation, safety and space planning, communication and meeting effectiveness, etc.Elevating employee experiences to meet the needs of a hybrid workplace model; engaging a global workforce of over 800 employees all while maintaining consistency and expected standards of excellence.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Working in partnership with DEI Leadership, Guild Meeting Planners, Sprout Serves, Community Partner Liaisons, and committee members to facilitate the development and execution of the Resource Group’s annual strategy aligned to activities focused on supporting community organizations and volunteerism linked to Sprout’s four focus areas, while representing the interests of the Resource Group.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Managed a team overseeing reception systems and the daily operations, maintenance and improvements at company headquarters. In response to pulse survey data, built Sprout’s global Social Impact strategy in partnership with the executive team—including the allocation of $500k in grants—resulting in deep, strategic partnerships with nonprofits that serve our priority identity groups through philanthropy, pro-bono, product gifting and board work.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

The primary driver and project manager for several large scale employee experience initiatives, including Philanthropy Week and our annual summer outing - both of which were successfully transitioned to fully virtual experiences in light of COVID-19. Efforts result in over $42,000 raised for charity over five days, and events routinely named as cornerstones of company culture and talent retention. Responsible for all aspects of corporate event management, serving a variety of audiences, often leading a team comprising of other colleagues across departments and influencing leadership. Consistently iterating & streamlining all event systems, resulting in a more efficient process for all clients within & outside of the company.Working across departments to surface event hosting and sponsorship opportunities to further develop company commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion initiatives. Championed several changes to our events processes to ensure a more inclusive and accessible environment.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Maintained responsibilities from previous role.Managed reception team and coached office management colleagues. Results included scaled systems and processes to provide customers, vendors, employees and prospects with a consistently outstanding experience, and promotions for the whole team.Developed a more efficient ticketing system for the office operations team, resulting in shorter resolution time on requests.Routinely requested to provide insight, support and advice to various stakeholders across all departments regarding organization, time management and problem solving.Curated quarterly employee experience events across Chicago and Seattle offices, focusing on minority owned businesses to generate awareness and support for small businesses in our communities.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Oversaw daily office operations, including managing relationships with building property management and all OpEx vendors, responding to facilities tickets in a timely manner, and ensuring high quality employee experiences.Led a team that made certain every detail of workspace experience was considered to provide a flawless office transition process for over 400 employees for two office build-outs. Advocacy and expertise led to equitable and inclusive office designs to ensure all guests, vendors and employees saw our space as welcoming and accessible.Shaped office culture and daily operations by carefully sourcing and negotiating vendor relationships to ensure quality of service was scaling with growing organization, while primarily supporting local and minority-owned businesses.Managed inventory for all food and office supplies supporting an office population of up to 400 people, including multiple events each month. Implemented processes to ensure our food and beverage program was inclusive of a wide array of dietary needs and restrictions.

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Established reception systems and protocols to ensure calls were being properly tracked, and call routing was as efficient as possible. Data informed how our sales and support teams were structured to supply a better customer experience. Managed travel for all employees and candidates traveling on behalf of Sprout. Supported relationship with building to ensure there was positive rapport between Sprout and our landlord. Advocated for and mastered additional responsibilities, resulting in a major promotion within 9 months of starting at the company, with no prior professional or educational experience.

Bachelor'S Degree, Voice And Opera

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