Leah Ranta, Msw, Lgsw Email & Phone Number

Minnesota, United States

- Advise the executive team on all legal matters pertaining to unemployment appeals, terminations, automobile accidents, and workers compensation claims. - Develop a strategy around employee retention by leading through people-centric performance indicators of reduced over time, increased utilization of PTO, employee benefits awareness, actionable exit interview and employee survey management.- Strategize and execute annual compensations, employee performance reviews, open benefits enrollment and employee handbook updates.- Develop the human resources from individual execution to a department of systems ready to support a growing multi-million dollar nonprofit.- Research, budget, build, and supervise all HMIS, LMS, and Payroll systems.

Minnesota, United States

• Develop and implement a training curriculum inclusive of new hire orientation, on-the-job training, and a training calendar taking into account critical staff needs as well as statute and grant requirements • Build out a robust organization-wide internship program by increasing university partnerships with an enhanced learning environment • Contract the rollout and integration of the organizations first learning management system to meet the needs of simplicity for leaders, learning for users and reporting for auditors • Lead the strategic change management to Trauma Responsive Care within training, policy, procedure and culture • Provide LGSW individual and group supervision to masters and bachelors social work internship students and employees working towards LSW licensure

Hopkins, Minnesota, United States

• Empowering youth ages 12-24 to accomplish their personal goals while experiencing or at-risk of homelessness. • Strengthening partnerships with schools and other youth-serving agencies to remove barriers and increase resource availability.

Elk River, Minnesota, United States

• Engaged families showing signs of child abuse, neglect, or exploitation. • Supported parents to identify their own strengths, needs, and future risk level.• Presented progress and recommendations for child’s best interest at court hearings. • Advocated for those most hurt by the same system that was created to protect them.

Queensland, Australia

• Area Manager: Offered a promotion on an international level to move to Australia and supervise the performance, recruitment, and development of 60+ employees. • COVID-19 Project Manager: Returned to the United States and assumed a project manager role overseeing the rollout and communications of store changes due to the pandemic.

• Launched a national rollout of the company's first Applicant Tracking System • Managed company-wide training materials, communication memos, testing of system configuration, and presented to train-the-trainers across the country.

• Personnel Committee Divisional Lead: Supervised the workshops, continuous development, and personnel of all Training Centers across a five-state region.• Lead store management in the operations, recruitment, hiring, training, and key performance indicators for a multi-million-dollar district and 50+ employees. • Provided calm direction to management in crisis such as robberies, flooding, medical emergencies, and overnight alarms.• Lowest year to date turnover and highest year to date productivity in the five-state region for the year 2017.• Assisted with the multi-billion-dollar expansion by managing the construction, shutdown, and remodel of seven locations ranging from 8-25% sales growth after re-open.

College Of St. Benedict

• Hired and trained all staff, including the creation of two new positions.• Presented at board meetings and campus events for public speaking engagements. • Approved all programming costs and evaluated they aligned with the mission of women’s empowerment. • Allocated budget funds to coordinators and sought funding where necessary.• Created an educational program to Turkey to study gender through an Islamic lens.

Stillwater, Mn

Southside Boys And Girls Club- St. Cloud, Mn

• Mentored at-risk youth of various cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.• Created and implemented multiple new culturally engaged programs which inspired young people to develop a healthy lifestyle through volunteering, discovering adolescence, and learning about the importance of nutrition and exercise.

Master Of Social Work - Msw, Families And Children

Bachelor'S Degree, Global Business Leadership | Asian Studies

Diploma