Lia Garvin Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Consulting services, workshops, and keynotes to support companies in building great managers and high performing teams. I disrupt the places teams are stuck, unlocking practical and actionable strategies to build better managers, drive higher engagement, retain key talent, and make it easier to move fast. ➡️ For corporate teams looking to develop better managers, drive higher team engagement, and operate more effectively:Manager Development & Team Programs- End micromanagement, strengthen your culture around feedback, and empower people as owners to scale the impact of your teams through my workshops + group coaching programs. Navigating difficult conversations, feedback, change management, impostor feelings, hybrid work, or beyond? I've got a program that will give your team concrete and actionable tools for getting unstuck.➡️ For founders, business owners, and entrepreneurs:Team Whisperer Consulting Sprint & Ops Playbook- Save 30+ hours per month by streamlining your team operations and dialing in the fundamentals of managing a high-performing team. With my "done for you" customized Ops Playbook tailored to your company, I map out the lightweight processes you need to run your team effectively so you can scale and grow your business. The result: less wasted time, higher efficiency, and more profitability.

New York , New York, Us

Advisor to female founders about topics including:- Business Planning- Leadership Development- Organizational Culture- People & Talent Management- Thought Leadership- Scaling Teams & Businesses

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Mountain View, Ca, Us

Develop operational effectiveness strategy and drive team operations for Health@Google team.• Defining team operations strategy centered around clarity, transparency, and rigor to ensure people on the team understand what is expected of them and how to get things done• Develop and deploy targeted interventions to understand the obstacles getting in the way from the team operating effectively • Design and launch culture change initiatives to facilitate a shift away from working in silos and towards collaboration and coordination

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Drive design operations and inclusive team culture across YouTube experiences, including:• Managing design operations across emerging experiences and community verticals• Designing and facilitating custom workshops and content to support onboarding, giving and receiving feedback, demystifying performance reviews, and manager trainings• Partnering with design leads to setup processes and tools to work most effectively• Coach and advisor to design leads• Examining and refining existing processes to optimize for psychological safety and transparency in communication• Managing a team of program managers• Advising on DEI strategy and inclusive hiring

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Define and drive strategic programs focused on creating a more inclusive, collaborative, and effective, including:• Designing and launching a team-wide program to operationalize team effectiveness by creating and facilitating custom workshops and trainings to help teams work better together, grounded a foundation in psychological safety and trust• Developing and facilitating custom manager development trainings, resulting in a measurable gain in how employees assess the effectiveness of their managers• Define and lead product inclusion efforts to incorporate an include lens to all aspects of the product development process• Identifying opportunities to incorporate more inclusive practices into team processes, and developing and deploying solutions to address them• Coaching managers on how to be a more effective and inclusive leader• Mentoring and coaching program managers working in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) space on how to develop and scale highly impactful programs; managing DEI program manager• Managing Team Operations OKR setting, tracking, and reporting, ensuring we have clearly defined and measurable objectives that ladder up to the broader goals of the organization• Co-Chair of the Women@AR Employee Resource Group, creating opportunities for community building and leadership development for the women working on AR

Mountain View, Ca, Us

Lead of Diversity & Inclusion programming across Google AR/VR, defining and driving the strategy for all programming, and facilitating cross functional relationships within the team and broader Google. This includes:• Defining strategy and programming plan for all D&I initiatives on the team, including writing annual and quarterly goals, aligning volunteers to support the work efforts, and informing VP and senior leaders about the plan and how they can best engage with the work• Identifying gaps in understanding of D&I themes and issues, and developing content to create a shared context, including trainings, toolkits, websites, resource libraries, etc.• Representing team’s D&I strategy within broader Google, building community with D&I PgMs in other product areas, speaking about our work in internal and external events. Mentoring D&I PgMs new to the role, and advising managers on how to approach hiring for this role• Driving strategic interventions across Product Inclusion, to ensure that the team understands how to build inclusive products and measure the success• Co-Chair of the Women@AR Employee Resource Group, creating opportunities for community building and leadership development for the women working on AR

Mountain View, Ca, Us

UX Program Manager for the Immersive Arts team, the team responsible for 3D characters, illustrations, environments, andartifacts across Google AR/VR. Responsibilities include:• Shipped Playground (formerly AR Stickers) v1, the app that was the 2nd most popular camera mode next to Portrait mode• Developed and drove the best process for tracking projects and work in a way that designers could understand and utilize,and in formats that can be rolled up to project stakeholders• Developed master project tracker to collect non timeline specific details such as agencies used, stakeholder names,dependencies, actions; drove resourcing per project ensuring work best mapped to each designer’s skillsets• Developed cadence for internal reviews and reviews with project teams, working with stakeholders to determine the bestfrequency to connect and who to include, notes templates that can be added to by anyone in the meeting• Drove collaboration between design and engineering

Boca Raton, Florida, Us

Speaker at the TEDx Boca Raton 2022 event. My talk was selected by TED.com to promote on their channels, and was one of the highest viewed TEDx talks in April 2022, reaching 80k views in less than one month and almost 300k views total.

Cupertino, California, Us

Drove the design and implementation of production design deliverables across iPhone, iPad, Watch, Mac, Siri, and Music shipped in iOS11, including:• Drove optimization opportunities around how we work and areas/opportunities for production designers to contribute to thedesign process throughout the full cycle• Championed design standards where appropriate and challenging assumptions around old patterns• Forged partnerships with engineering to ensure seamless integration of design deliverables• Managed deliverables across multiple timelines, load balanced across the schedules of all of the product teams to ensureproduction resources were supporting each product as needed• Facilitated partnerships with and collaboration opportunities with partner design teams including Music and App StoreDrove internal design process/work tracking tools for our broader design studio, including:• Partnered with designers & producers to define requirements based on their workflows• Facilitated focus groups to collect feedback across the team to ensure people were invested and bought in the processeswe were developing• Onboarded people onto the tools to ensure they understood why we had them and how to use them• Drove culture building initiatives across the studio, including how to optimize time spent in meetings

Redmond, Washington, Us

Sr. program manager supporting end to end design team composed of UX, Visual, Motion, and 3D Technical Artists: • Shipped v1 of HoloLens Mixed Reality head mounted device• Partnered with design leads to define vision for AR/VR• Developed and drive processes for design planning and ideation, and practices for translating ideation into actionable feature plans• Represented design team, processes, and deliverables to leadership and partners• Facilitated product planning process across design, program management, and engineering• Continued with responsibilities listed below

Redmond, Washington, Us

Drove design problems from experience outcome to product features to interaction tasks to asset deliverables for the HoloLens Design team:• Team, project, and status communication to internal team, stakeholders, and HoloLens leadership • Onboarded team onto Visual Studio Online for task and bug tracking so that team could track deliverables in lock step with engineering• Partnered with PM leads on creating processes to drive more alignment between design and engineering • Managed interaction & visual design pipeline including master design schedule and asset deliverables for HoloLens• Partnered closely with engineering and PM to ensure designs are to spec, represented the design vision, and can be successfully implemented• Managed design deliverables for demos and presentations in large scale events such as //Build Conference • Managed design handoffs and materials within design and to dev partners• Managed vendor resource budget for HoloLens product including forecasting, resource balancing, and reporting• Drove collaboration between HoloLens Design & other partner design groups – processes, best practices, tools • Drove culture building initiatives to facilitate collaboration across the team

Redmond, Washington, Us

Communications & Design:• Designed and managed all internal and external communications and presentations for CVP of Bing (videos, presentations, speaking engagement, org announcements)• Drove executive demos end to end including writing demo script and determining demo flow; managing visual and prototype designers; securing, setting up, testing, & running hardware• Worked on cross functional team of PM, Design, Marketing, and Brand to redefine the Bing brand and key customer stories • Develop storytelling framework to be used across our organizations presentations and team stories, including detailed guidelines on developing a story, creating visually compelling presentations and video, and video editing and production• Designed and coded internal website for team communications and manage team Sharepoint and update internal team documentation• Planned, shot, and produced team videos including graphic design, motion graphics, dynamic titles, and sound editing• Collaborated across teams for Bing special projects; working with design teams across Microsoft to develop videos and executive presentationsBusiness Management & Product Execution:• Partnered with finance to drive budget coordination and collection process, and track monthly OPEX budget/headcount/MBR for Bing • Drove all org communications for rollout of Modern Product Development org change at Bing• Spearheaded time-savings initiatives for our org including meetings best practices and shifting executive meetings to Skype-only when possible; defined best practices for working with remote teams• Drove weekly Search Leadership Team Checkpoint meeting; attending all of the initiative Shiprooms each week to collect the inputs, collecting special topic content, managing the agenda, driving closure of actions• Collaborated with business managers across teams to create best practices for org operations, budget and people programs

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Managed design resourcing, budget, timelines and vendor relationships for projects ranging from brand identity development to packaging design to retail fixture installation for world renowned lifestyle brands:• Planed, managed, and coordinated production on lifestyle and product photo shoot• Developed and manage social media strategy and engagement plan for internal Character brand • Created innovative and intuitive tools and reports for tracking project timelines and budgets in Excel and InDesign• Brainstormed with creative teams on brand positioning and creative strategies• Liaised between clients and design team to ensure that the clients'​ business needs are being addressed through the highest quality of creative work

Santa Clara, California, Us

• Managed budgets, timelines, and resource workflows across simultaneously across 15-project portfolio with competing timelines and resources; oversaw team of five graphic designers and annual team revenue of $2 million• Managed onsite production event for Scripps Network Upfronts presentations utilized by C-Level network executives; responsible for schedule management, workflow, asset collection, and design quality control for seven brands• Onsite and offsite project management event support for main-stage presentations for: CES, YouTube Upfronts, Google I/O, VidCon• Designed and implemented innovative project tracking materials utilizing advanced formatting techniques in Excel to facilitate project schedule and budget for multiple projects and across multiple teams• Served as the subject matter expert and point person for all client communication and correspondence; ensuring design team implementing feedback has clearly defined goals and workflow and is accurately executing the needs of the client

Charlotte, Nc, Us

• Partnered with a team of infrastructure engineers to manage the cross-country hardware migration for Bank of America’s global derivatives & FX data center• Designed/created diagrams of hardware interconnectivity and infographics depicting details of the migration• Coordinated & facilitated meetings between third party vendors and development teams• Created start to finish implementation plan including fail-back scenarios, test procedures, and minute by minute task lists• Created bi-weekly status dashboard distributed to executive stakeholders• Continued to drive global budget for 2012

Charlotte, Nc, Us

• Assisted Managing Director of Global Derivatives & FX Back Office Technology in coordinating and facilitating 2011 Budget process; managed data collection and consolidation of estimates into central master spreadsheet; created Budget presentations for executive stakeholders• Created visual materials, presentations, original logos, use cases, and flow diagrams displaying system connectivity and moving from current to target state technology; utilized advanced Excel and PowerPoint formatting skills to create sophisticated graphics, tables, and diagrams• Managed project timelines and documentation for technology initiatives; communicated timelines and interdependencies across departments and to stakeholder audiences; managed and maintained Sharepoint sites• Drove strategic planning efforts including: Analysis of Total Cost of Application metrics and determining strategic cost savings opportunities; analyzing trade volume and technological system performance metrics to shape planning and decision making around our future technological roadmap• Designed PowerPoint templates Excel table formats to be used by tech project managers to communicate information more clearly and consistently • Created template for and manage weekly stakeholder dashboard and report tracking all technology projects in Global Back Office Technology; designed, created, and managed monthly project timeline report for distribution to upper management

• Recruited attorneys, professors, and political officials for State Advisory Committees• Prepared briefing regarding Rhode Island school system, and Citizen’s Guide to Civil Rights for Connecticut and Virginia• Assisted in planning and coordinating USCCR national briefing in Honolulu regarding the Senator Akaka Bill

• Researched and drafted proposals successfully procuring over $500,000 in funding. • Designed all promotional and marketing materials to announce events, classes, and news about the organization to the local community.• Assisted the Director of Recreation with the design and distribution of quarterly class brochures; Obtained local Advertisers to be represented in class brochures as a fundraising strategy for the organization.• Maintained day-to-day bookkeeping and organizational financial systems (Quickbooks, payroll, etc.) for staff of 15 full time employees, 50 youth workers, 25 outside vendors- entering invoices and weekly bank deposits, tracking payments, writing checks, retrieving financial statements and reports as requested by the Executive Director and in preparation for the Board of Directors.• Created GED curriculum and taught GED preparation courses in Spanish and English; taught yoga and meditation techniques in Spanish to monolingual youth soccer team.

•Developed start to finish captioning system to create a bilingual subtitle and closed captioning option for all educational DVDs; this included hiring and monitoring all talent involved in the process (transcribers, timecoders, translators) as well as monitoring the project timeline to guarantee a timely delivery to the video editor•Scheduled talent for production shoots, served as liaison for the company with talent prospects, airline companies, hotels, vendors, etc.; acted as point-person for all of the talent’s needs; managed set-up and all preparation needs for video shoots•Managed client intake; answered phones; ordered production materials and supplies• Supervised language translation activities and quality control for all Spanish translation services offered by the company•Arranged all aspects of production travel, company trips and industry conferences for the production team (setting up meetings, travel, accommodations, registration, etc.)•Set up phone conferences when needed; kept track of the production calendar, organizing production materials (i.e. treatments, demo reels, casting tapes, research), and fielding inquiries to the company

Ba, Sociology

Ma, Media Studies

Certificate, Organizational Leadership