Leigh Harris Email & Phone Number

Greater San Diego Area And Remote West Coast

• Over 20 years building successful employees and leaders through guiding clients in values and strengths assessments, and strategic thinking, to focus on action-oriented behavior and achieve career goals. • Coaches and leads workshops in career and personal development, resulting in practical application and successful achievements. Specialized workshops include mindfulness, mind chatter and meditation; career change, empowerment and leadership development.• Help career seekers to uncover their purpose, and the passion that drives them, to achieve self-confidence and personal power.• Trained and guided hundreds of professional & midlevel jobseekers to expertly present employment documents, complete interviews and actively network, to obtain relevant employment (85%).• Coach job seekers on labor and employment laws, and on unemployment hurdles, and to understand employment expectations, as well as questions to ask in interviews and post-job offers.• Maintain accurate reporting and documentation for clients and contract sponsors.• Guide people to create solid career decisions resulting in immediate action. Encourage clients and team to enhance knowledge, skills and abilities to increase career and business growth.• Teach resume writing, interview preparation, and job entry expectations, increasing successful outcomes. Keen eye for editing, and catching errors and inconsistencies in written documents.Testimonials:"Solid group. Very professional with excellent insight. If you're serious about kicking it up a notch Leigh has created a forum for you."​"Leigh bridges the gap between the world most of us know and the hidden world of career search.""So engaging, I was reluctant for it to end."​“Supportive environment and receptive group for sharing information, developmental exercises & revealing insightful info.”“Leigh really cares about us. She is a wonderful teacher.”

San Diego, California, United States

• Initiates planning key objectives for the board of directors and multiple committees, ensuring communications and meetings are occurring, tasks are completed, and goals are met.• Manages communication between CEO and other executives, streamlining functions and increasing effectiveness.• Collaborates with external stakeholders to assist with achieving organizational goals, including logistics planning, execution and follow up. • Ensures communication between executive staff is clear and functioning smoothly, responding to varying needs and preferences in communication.

• Copyediting; evaluating concepts and practical application/understanding of written work; write from concept to printed article, proposal or book; edit and write portions of client work. This includes articles, proposals, HR documents, web content, magazines, manuscripts, resumes, cover letters.• Exceptional affinity to capture and fix written errors, offering alternatives to clarify message.• Completed 58,000-word non-fiction book and signed agent contract: Intuitive Life: Create More Conscious, Rewarding Career Choices, and Build a More Satisfying Life. Completed in 2011.Testimonials from copyediting and writing articles:"...I would love to send you a copy. Having your keen eye on it would give me peace of mind.""Oh my goodness, what an amazing gift you have! Thank you so, so much. I am so grateful. You have an eye for detail.""You save me...this would have taken me forever!""Awesome writing...""Very compelling insight...""...very thought-provoking and interesting."

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

• Successfully met aggressive timelines by managing communications between businesses in this $18.3M multi-stakeholder industry project.• Strategically implemented communications activity, to ensure streamlined, positive and collaborative communications within project.• Managed office personnel, liaised with engineers, wrote personnel letters and assisted with headhunting and sourcing.• Kept website content up-to-date, accurate and search engine optimized.

British Columbia, Canada

Career Coaching Program Director (2000 – 2006)• Full-cycle recruiting achieved, from sourcing through to long term performance management.• Creatively marketed to attract quality coaches; conducted interviews prior to submitting to location directors. Clearly communicated job expectations to new hires, ensuring ongoing care and support.• Effectively liaised with government and local businesses; increased client employment rate, reduced inconsistencies, and exceeded program targets.• Coordinated and led program accountability measurements. Coached staff to ensure accurate and timely reporting, tracked and reported monthly and annual metrics to show successful program results.Campus Manager (1998 – 2000)• Hired staff with an eye to maximize team strengths and increase work output through performance management.• Responsible for full cycle of recruiting, including writing offer letters and negotiating salary.• Accomplished high retention rate and performance improvement among staff hires.• Managed budget and key metrics to receive annual 100% Club award twice.• Recognized for collaborative, engaging and diplomatic communication skills. Asked to assist with troubled sites outside program area to ensure effective problem resolution and management growth.Career Services Associate (1996 – 1998)• Responded positively and professionally to diverse student and employer needs in a time sensitive and multiple task setting, collaborated with staff, and ensured a high level of service and satisfaction.• Set personal goals and career outcomes for clients, promoting accountability, and improving motivation and performance.• Acted as mentor, decreasing attrition and increasing student success.• Recognized gap in written policies; developed standard procedures and expected outcomes for professional workshops and program policies, increasing student progress throughout program.

Master Coaching Practitioner Of Evolved Nlp, Personal Development And Nlp Training

Certified Master Practitioner of Evolved NLP and Supreme Influence; includes in-person and virtual coaching methods for personal growth.

Diploma In Modern Human Resource Management, Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General

Certified Core Strengths Totalsdi Facilitator, Human Resources Management And Services, Certified

TotalSDI is the Strengths Deployment Inventory, introduced in 1971 by Dr. Elias Porter, along with Relationship Awareness Theory. SDI.

Online Consumer Engagement Program, Social Media

Operations Management

Writing

Creativity Training for Writers The Craft of Magazine Writing

Certified, Master Teacher

Psychology, English