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Southfield, Mi, Us

Potential Partners, LLC is a consulting group that collaborates with entrepreneurial leaders, their investors, their teams and their organizations to recognize and realize their greatest potential. I hold the roles of Partnership Architect and Senior Consultant specializing in organization change, leadership and coaching, and design thinking to discover, design, and iterate products, services, and whole systems.CORE COMPETENCIESLeadershipStrategy Organization Design & Development Learning and Talent Development Change Management IT ImplementationProject and Program ManagementPerformance ManagementCommunicationHuman ResourcesEmployee Experience & EngagementACHIEVEMENTSExample client engagements under Potential Partners (formerly NextWork Partners) are detailed in my profile and labeled freelance. Clients include: Robert Bosch, Ford Motor Company, Qantas Airlines, Trinity Health, Kreg Tool and Doherty Enterprises.Contact lisa@PotentialPartnersAndYou.com to explore how we can help you, your team, and your organization lead effectively from start-up through major changes and transformations with expertise in strategy, culture, change management, IT implementations, design thinking, leadership, coaching, learning & development, innovation, collaboration, and facilitation.

Ann Arbor, Mi, Us

May Mobility is an autonomous vehicle start-up in the MAAS sector with international operations, which was named the breakout company to watch in the AV industry in 2024. ACHIEVEMENTS- Established the learning and organizational development function implementing a comprehensive learning strategy and facilitating leadership, team, and organizational development efforts.- Collaborated with Senior Leadership and People Operations to implement a business operating system integrated with planning and performance.- Founded May's first Leaders Academy, building leader mindsets and skills at every level.- Collaborated with leaders to build high performing teams through coaching, facilitated team building activities, assessments e.g. DiSC and targeted business strategy workshops.- Designed and launched a world-class onboarding experience in partnership with People Operations to speed time to productivity and belonging for new hires and significantly decrease administrative time through automated tasks and communication.- Activated inclusive behaviors and mitigated unconscious bias in relationships, processes and products, and business decisions in partnership with leaders and the MayID (DEI&B) employee resource group.

Gerlingen-Schillerhöhe, Baden-Wuerttemberg, De

The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. It employs roughly 429,000 associates worldwide (as of December 31, 2023). The company generated sales of 91.6 billion euros in 2023.I held the roles of learning and development consultant, senior instructional designer and senior facilitator for the duration of this multi-year exclusive contract to provide design and delivery of training curricula for professionals, leaders, and project managers across North America.

Ankeny, Iowa, Us

A leader in advance manufacturing, Kreg's leadership envisioned a new direction, rooted in a deep sense of purpose, in the DIY woodworking space. Every person in the company would need to lean in and learn to navigate the space where the still-successful foundational business crashes, sometimes very uncomfortably, into experiments with the future of their company and their industry. In eight months our team helped leadership at several levels build alignment and momentum in their desired direction. Now they are DIY human-centered change leaders, intentionally designing their future together.

Allendale, Nj, Us

Doherty Enterprises had the vision and audacity to use Design Thinking to tackle a major operational challenge. In partnership with 3Consulting, Inc and The Doherty Center for Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Elon University, I co-led the initiative. We developed the Design Thinking mindsets and skills with our unique DT toolkit and hands-on coaching of multiple teams to self-assess systemic leverage points for needed leadership and operational changes.

Dearborn, Michigan, Us

Ford IT had begun their Agile Enterprise transformation and I was invited to work alongside their Organization Change Management and Learning folks for a brief time to help accelerate team and talent capacities with learning experience design and delivery. Our team was also able to help build momentum on their culture change journey by mapping out an integrated change map and plan to accelerate leadership alignment conversations.

Livonia, Mi, Us

Trinity was undergoing intense structural and technological changes when I was asked to join the team as a Change Specialist responsible for tending the humans through waves of disruptive, enterprise-wide initiatives originated in the newly formed Unified Revenue Organization. By continually asking "what do the humans need", our team helped the people move through the frustration and grief that comes with shifting priorities, new co-workers, remote bosses, temperamental tech and more and turn their energy toward the future of high-tech, high-touch healthcare.

Bachelor'S Degree, Interior Design (One Of The Original Human-Centered Design Fields Of Study)

Master Of Fine Arts - Mfa, Creative Writing