Leah Stackhouse Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Nashua, Nh, Us

Leading HR team of 2 (covering Director's leave) with focus on onboarding, payroll, benefits, employee relations in the midst of a significant university-wide ERP implementation.

✦ Certified Career Ownership Consultant - coaching clients on exploring career themes, crafting goals and action plans, as they chart their personalized intelligent career.✦ Consulting with founder & leadership team of Intelligent Career Group to scale business and build engagement. Ideated and launched private LinkedIn Group as "community of practice" space for certified consultants.✦ Presenter (Oct. 2024) and volunteer (2023-2024) at the Association for Talent Development New England Area Conference

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HR Business partner for global network of subject matter experts (network grew from 1500 to 5000 colleagues) encompassing 30+ knowledge teams across Industry, Function and Geographic Practices.✦ Innovated a first-of-its-kind rotational analyst program to diversify the early-tenure talent pipeline. - Achieved 90%+ offer accept rate. - Streamlined interview process developed for this program became the standard process for other early-tenure roles. - Tripled locations and participants in first 2 years. - ~2/3 of first cohort moved into permanent FT roles at the end of the 2-year program amidst layoffs.✦ Helmed multiple development initiatives to build the leadership bench. - Established and led first global cross-dept talent review and succession planning process for Managers (level 4/5 in talent pyramid) - Co-created pre-promotion vetting process for Managers & Directors (level 5) with business leads to assess structural dimensions of role and ensure consistent thresholds for scale & scope - Initiated a multi-pronged development program for Team Leaders (level 3/5): mentoring, peer-led discussion forums, leadership connect & updates, coaching guides, access to reporting tools.✦ Increased employee satisfaction and engagement by creating 2 new senior roles on an individual contributor career path - Originated a global talent review to assess performance and hold a consistent bar for promotion - Facilitated 75+ promotions/lateral transfers w/in 18 months.✦ Directed a 3-person team in a year-long process transformation and system implementation improving the rigor, consistency, quality and efficiency of global performance evaluations for 1000+ colleagues.

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Talent developer creating conditions for employee success and growth for second largest global SME office location. Office size tripled (from ~100 to 300+ colleagues) and expanded to include corporate functions (IT, Finance). ✦ Set strategy and oversaw delivery of learning portfolio to meet identified skill development needs aligned to global competency models.✦ Managed, scaled, and continuously improved one of the largest evaluation processes for SMEs – from 1 committee covering ~50 colleagues to 4 committees covering ~175 individuals.

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Asked by office leader to expand role from learning focus to broader talent development focus when incumbent moved to a new role.✦ Managed semi-annual performance management & evaluation process for ~50 business researchers including assigning and training new evaluators.✦ Enhanced employee experience and growth by counseling individual contributors and managers re: learning options, skill/career development, performance improvement, team effectiveness etc.✦ Assessed needs, oversaw design, managed delivery, and facilitated learning sessions, including redesign of 5-day new hire orientation program adopted by other offices.

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Collaborated with Professional Development Manager to plan and deliver office-based learning programs; ensured awareness and managed enrollment in global role-specific corporate learning programs.

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Led a team of knowledge professionals (4-6 colleagues) including advising consulting teams on the most relevant research methodologies and data sources, aligning project opportunities with individual's skills and expertise, managing team workflow and coaching/mentoring/developing/evaluating colleagues.

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Provided bespoke quantitative and qualitative research and analysis to inform client recommendations of consulting teams. Trained researchers on best practice information retrieval, analysis and presentation skills.

Round Rock, Texas, Us

Generalist business researcher for an internal consulting team focused on business process transformation projects.✦ Sourced and analyzed relevant internal and external data to support consulting teams and projects.✦ Monitored industry and business press to keep team abreast of relevant trends, perspectives, new market research etc.✦ Created networking group to share information and sources across various departments that leveraged third-party datasets (e.g. corporate library, marketing, sales).

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Performed qualitative and quantitative business research to help shape recommendations of consulting teams.✦ Synthesized research findings to convey key takeaways and create appropriate deliverables (e.g. structured memos, PPT charts and slides).✦ Coached peers on search strategies and usage of third-party databases and information sources in areas of expertise (e.g. US govt macroeconomic and demographic datasets).✦ Triaged incoming requests and managed team workflow.

Ba, Economics (Magna Cum Laude; Phi Beta Kappa)

Ms, Library And Information Science