⎯ Business partner to the Advisory Services practice. Engage with leaders and colleagues to create a learning strategy comprised of technical and professional skills development for the Commercial and Public Sector practices. Lead, coach and mentor a team of project managers, instructional designers and implementation specialists. Provide guidance on prioritization and optimization of learning plans for over 20 areas of specializations and professional skills. Oversight of financial planning, vendor selection, analysis/interpretation of results across multiple concurrent initiatives. ⎯ Regularly present progress and provide insights with senior level leadership.

Key client: Grant Thornton, National Strategic Learning, June 2012 - current⎯ Design and execution of complex talent development programs; focus spans consultant to seniorleader. Specific programs and initiatives include annual C-Suite development conference and semi-annual University conferences.

⎯ Lead development and execution of learning strategies aligned with organizational and business unit priorities including leadership development, global transformation and national reorganizations.⎯ Deliver best in class programs for groups and individual contributors. Lead internal and external teams including stakeholder management, subject matter experts, vendors and project managers. Execute and oversee design, delivery, assessment, impact and management reporting for programs

⎯ Oversight of $20MM PMO operations. Supported strategic programs and quality initiatives through development and advanced deployment of people and processes. Enhanced project execution; centralized organizational processes, governance and team building. Prepared and managed annual fiscal planning and budget. Developed and managed communications plan on strategic change initiatives. ⎯ Developed and led a multi-channel learning strategy to increase consistency, quality and acumen. Solutions were sustainable and included subject matter expert development, train the trainer programs, eLearning, Live Classroom, Just-in-Time options. Member of national learning steering committee.⎯ Developed new on-boarding process and teaming synergy activities within a geographically dispersed team. Implemented mobility, recruitment and retention strategies, provided guidance on professional development programs including individual development plans.

⎯ Founding member. Led the development and implementation of Leadership, Management and Service Excellence curricula for 6000 professionals. Critical focus was on improving the performance, effectiveness and satisfaction of professionals and leadership in Operations, Finance, Technology and Human Resources.⎯ Partnered and influenced 60+ leaders to standardize learning goals and processes across multiple business units, creating a holistic view that optimized the linkage between firm strategy, business unit priorities and talent development strategy.⎯ Managed and served as a member on cross functional teams to design and implement cross cultural and inclusion initiatives, competency development and learning paths, centralized on-boarding, custom programs, and implementation of a new Learning Management System (LMS).⎯ Conceived and oversaw deployment of key learning marketing campaigns and communication strategies from vision through execution. Recognized for success and leveraged for other national programs

⎯ Managed new high volume advanced-hire recruitment strategy, including university relations and candidate identification at 18 top Masters and LL.M programs. Managed International Student Interview Program; a consortium sponsored by over 30 law schools. ⎯ Consulted with U.S. and Global leaders on annual targets and plans; customized candidate deployment and follow-up strategies.⎯ Orchestrated annual analyses and communications on strategy improvement, results and effectiveness reporting encompassing university assessment. ⎯ Designed programs deployed to client service and recruitment professionals including: global deployment roles and responsibilities course; recruitment effectiveness training; and new hire buddy/mentor programs.