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St. Louis, MO, US

Greater St. Louis Area

• Provide human resource consulting services for client companies.
• Engage clients with career transition consulting including identification of skills, development of marketing strategy, creation of marketing materials and coaching for a successful search.
• Facilitate workshops for individuals in transition.
• Conduct exit interviews for executive and staff level clients
• Provide coaching services
• Design, develop and impliment training solutions

Greater St. Louis Area

• Assisted with design, development and implementation of training for Lutheran Senior Services employees.
• Led highly successful implementation of new Learning Management System. Managed vendor relationship.
• Increased organizational learning by leveraging available technology (LMS, Web Conference, SharePoint).
• Conducted organization’s first large scale learning needs assessment.
• Led effective redesign of core leadership courses including coaching, customer service… Show more Assisted with design, development and implementation of training for Lutheran Senior Services employees.
• Led effective redesign of core leadership courses including coaching, customer service, leading change.

Greater St. Louis Area

Partnered in re-design of learning function by transition from business operations base to enterprise wide learning organization. Elevated trainer expertise in program evaluation, use of technology and professional certification.

Consolidated learning leadership of several diverse departments - leveraged economies and use of technology across each. Provided efficient, rapid, and highly rated training in response to several very large new account implementations.

Developed and led start up learning function for Network Operations and Field Network. Managed remote staff. Designed comprehensive learning needs assessment and implemented key findings. Partnered with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) conducting rapid content development and delivery for highly specialized workgroup.

Managed program delivery and logistics for enterprise wide leadership development series resulting in training for over 4000 leaders in less than 8 months.

Implemented strategies designed to enhance staff education efforts both within a seventeen hospital region and enterprise-wide. Worked with key hospital and corporate stakeholders toward the enhancement of staff education services.

Directed market-level (St. Louis, MO) educational delivery including needs assessment, planning, coordination and presentation.

Directed the operations and marketing of the Deaconess MedCenters, CONCERN Employee Assistance Program®, and corporate contracting for other departments of the hospital.

M.A., Education

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology