As Fractional Chief People Officer reporting to the President, I lead strategic initiatives to drive leadership development, employee engagement, and cultural transformation. Partnering with executive leaders, I align our Focus purpose, mission, values, and strategic vision with our people strategies and programs, ensuring long-term success and organizational cohesion.Key Responsibilities & Accomplishments:Strategic Alignment of Business & People Goals: Facilitate sessions with executive leadership to prototype and define the Focus purpose, mission, values, and strategic vision. Align leaders around this shared strategic narrative, laying the foundation for cohesive organizational change that drive business goals forward.People & Culture Transformation: Collaborate with leaders to embed purpose and values into our culture and everyday people practices. Provide ongoing coaching and support to leadership on key people practices spanning talent management, recruitment, onboarding and training, employee relations, and internal communications and events. Engagement & Experience Surveys: Design and deploy employee engagement and experience surveys to uncover cultural insights. Partner with leaders to create company and team actions to improve employee engagement, satisfaction and retention.Performance Management: Lead design and rollout of Ignite, our performance management experience that aligns employee and team performance with company strategic goals. Powered by PerformYard, the program focuses on goal setting and tracking, performance conversations and feedback, and personal career development. Leadership Development: Guide leadership team through Five Dysfunctions of a Team assessment and certified workshops, helping them enhance team cohesion and effectiveness. Leverage ongoing workshops and trainings to up-skill leaders and solve everyday leadership and organizational challenges.

Kevin is the Founder and CXO of Experience Willow, an award-winning consulting firm that harnesses the power of shared stories and experiences to make brands, organizations and lives better. The Employee & Culture branch designs and facilitates inspiring programs, workshops and other employee experiences. The Customer & Lifestyle branch develops compelling customer experiences and everyday gatherings.Experience Willow is a certified LGBT-Owned Business Enterprise and was recognized as a 2021 Minority-Owned Business of the Year at the American Business Awards. Since 2015, the firm has been named an Eventex All-Star, an annual accolade for the top global experience agencies.Client Highlights:Experience Willow won the BizBash Team Building Event of the Decade for On the Move to Midtown, a 6-month campaign featuring two signature experiences that helped 2,600 NCR employees transition to a new, state-of-the-art tech campus in midtown Atlanta. It was also recognized for Employee Engagement and Team Building excellence by the American and International Business Awards, Eventex Global Awards and Event Marketer Hidden Gems.SHRM and the Atlanta Business Chronicle recognized Cox Enterprises and its Cox EXLab, a corporate change movement and agile design lab conceived and launched by Experience Willow, for HR Excellence. EXLab design projects bring leaders and employees together to innovate and reimagine the company's people solutions and experiences.Willow brought home two BizBash Awards, Best Corporate Event and Best Event Entertainment, for One Throne One Choice, an immersive HBO Game of Thrones experience. At the Eventex Global Awards, this same customer experience was named Experiential Event of the Year and runner-up for Best Product Launch.Other partners include/have included A+E Networks, ASPCA, Cox Automotive, Dunkin, Enverus, Equifax, FOX, Hess, IEX Group, Interface, Jackson Healthcare, Manhattan Associates, US National Parks and World's Finest Chocolate.

Reporting to the Chief People & Public Affairs Officer, Kevin helped transform NCR culture by creating more meaningful leadership and employee experiences.In his unique role as a transformation catalyst, he partnered closely with business leaders and teams in the global HR, Real Estate, Communications and Public Affairs organizations, helping to lead employer branding and culture strategies and participate in thoughtful designs and redesigns of recruitment, onboarding, talent management, leadership development, learning and workplace experiences.For his breakthrough culture work at NCR, Kevin was named one of five HR Rising Stars at the global HR Distinction Awards (UK) in 2016 and an HR Executive Rising Star in 2017.

Kevin reported to the President-CEO of this well recognized culture boutique and AdAge A-List Agency. He directed consumer experiences and public relations efforts, while also serving as marketing and sales lead for the firm's joint venture with OnProduct Publishing.Supported by more than 25 brand storytellers, Kevin helped secure and grow the most diverse client portfolio in the industry: Boost Mobile, Caress, Dentyne, Diageo, Heineken & Heineken Light, Home Depot, JCPenney, Johnnie Walker, J&J, Jose Cuervo, Kraft, MasterCard, Nestle, NFL, Nissan, Oscar Mayer, Sprint, Trident, Tylenol, and Wendy’s.

While with Momentum Atlanta, Kevin led the Coca-Cola business, overseeing a team of more than 10 skilled brand storytellers who managed national and customer experiences for the brand’s largest lifestyle and entertainment partnerships including NASCAR, NCAA, Olympic Games, the first Harry Potter film, as well as Disney Parks and Six Flags.Before transferring to Atlanta, he worked at Momentum Detroit, managing corporate and dealer experiences for GM and Buick. Most notably, Kevin helped lead an integrated team that activated a PGA presenting partnership and Tiger Woods endorsement deal.