Keith Beyar Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Budapest, Hungary

Reporting to the Global VP for LDHR out of the U.S., provide strategic and tactical Leadership Development (LD) and Human Resources support across all of Europe (42 business units including Russia). Direct training, staff development, consulting and coaching roles to connect an ethnically and regionally diverse employee base of over 1,200 EE. Contribute cross-functionally to the newly formed European VP Team, elevating the people development needs while making strategic decisions following the merger of very different organizational regions of eastern and western Europe. Built and developed a network of European HR leaders to address cross-cultural issues by creating an environment for collaborative solutions driven by common needs and intended results to develop current and emerging leaders. Coordinate efforts to engage and support business units as subject matter experts, establishing institutional collaboration and creative partnerships in support of staff exchange, mentoring, and coaching. Highlights include:- Lead a team of 26 National LDHR Managers for their designated country business unit.- Talent Acquisition & M&A Activities during restructuring. Conceived, designed, and executed plans to match talent with strategic needs in Europe.- Collaborated with HR leaders to assess development needs and developed strategic plans to improve talent management efficiencies and efficacies.- Program Management - Hybrid/Online Onboarding Training through LMS (Google Classroom) for new National Level Leaders – EE moving local to national level.- Role Training for City Level Leaders – Designed and provided training for new City Level Leaders with a focus a standard Leadership Framework and collaborative team building.- Organizational Learning - For National Business Units – Consult with Leaders to solve people related challenges.- Consultative Support - Developed and implemented a Performance Assessment for Leaders.

Budapest, Hungary

Reporting into the Regional Director, led the LD and HR functions in Eastern Europe (19 business units including Russia) through direct training, staff development, consulting, strategic planning and coaching roles to Cru’s diverse 750 person staff, who are primarily European. Trained and consulted with our national leadership to assess and change their organizational culture creating alignment globally with defined priorities. Provided oversight to leadership succession planning efforts to identify current and emerging leaders and created differentiated development plans for key leaders. Highlights include:- Led HR processes to select talent for > 50% the roles on the Area Leadership Team (9 members from 5 nationalities) regionally and for 6 new National-level Directors in region in addition to contributing strategic leadership for the Area Leadership Team. - Trained numerous teams to identify and address roadblocks and leverage strengths toward effective teamwork, with follow up for long-term change to occur. - Increased HR capacity in region by 50% by identifying and training new national leaders. - Led a restructuring in N. Macedonia through a reorganization to form a National Leadership Team and created and executed a strategy to develop their leaders and 45 staff. - Taught Team Collaboration coursework to national and regional level teams to assist them to identifying roadblocks and leverage identified strengths. Followed up training with a Team Effectiveness evaluation developed to be used annually, resulting in a 100% satisfaction rating.

Moscow, Russia

Led a team targeting Moscow's 1 million student population to help them grow spiritually, intellectually, and emotionally. Designed marketing strategies, cultural events, and provided educational resources to connect to the needs of the elite students of Russia studying in Moscow. Highlights include:- Created and managed a 3 year project to allow city team to identify new opportunities by evaluation of common measures, testing opportunities and planning for future initiatives.- Led innovative strategies, including the creation of a network of local/international staff and volunteers.- Increased staff headcount 500% in first 4 years to reach our unique scope.- Created and implemented a new standardized global curriculum to train new members of the organization, adopted globally for our 17,000 staff in 2010, with a revision in 2018. - Progressive promotions starting with Team Leader roles in Central Asia and Moscow, Russia.

Master'S Degree, Organizational Leadership

Leadership concentration with applied concepts of effective training and Adult Learning in the organizational context.

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Engineering/Industrial Management (Technical & People Management)

Activities and Societies: President of EM student organization, Alpine Skiing, Campus Ministry LeaderElectrical Engineering and Quality.