Lois Bennett, M.Ed. Email & Phone Number

Washington, DC, US

Fort Meade, MD

Manage military transition assistance program to include career development programs, counseling, workshop facilitation and assisting clients with making sound career decisions. Collaborate with community employers and non-profit agencies.

Fort Meade, MD

• Soldier for Life - Transition Assistance Program (SFL-TAP):Advisor/counselor - provided career services to transitioning Service Members and their Family Members. Assisted clients with navigating the Hiring Our Heros.
• Counseled clients with developing Individual Transition Plans for achieving Goals, Plans, and Successes (GPS), to enhance their potential for successful transitions to civilian workforce.
• Conducted weekly pre-separation briefings, program progress and resume review meetings.
• Facilitated monthly workshops on topics such as skills gap analysis, labor market analysis, stress/resilience, resume writing, social media, and networking strategies.
• Executed exceptional customer service and support to clients and colleagues.
• Mentored counselor team.

Laurel, Maryland

• Coached unemployed/underemployed job seekers and provided resources for advancement in all stages of their career search.
• Career resource center assistant: - conducted career & industry database research - administered skills assessments - reviewed resumes and cover letters
• Facilitated weekly workshops: - employment acquisition strategies - basic computers skills: How to complete online applications, Microsoft Office: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook (email etiquette)- Workplace/business.

New Brunswick, New Jersey

• Served as independent training & development subject matter expert for global law department of 600 employees including attorneys, paralegals, and legal staff.
• Curated professional and career development resources for all professional levels.
• Launched in-house continuing legal education (CLE) program; liaised with multiple state licensing agencies for accreditation credentialing.
• Managed 20 – 40 in-person seminars and webinars annually, averaged 60 global participants each session: managed speakers' request for proposals, venue, technology, participant communications, materials and evaluations.
• Project team member for corporate-wide ethics awareness programs.
• Cross-functional team and subject matter expert collaboration.

• U.S. Army Veteran
• Human Resources Officer, Adjutant General Corps (AG)
• Civil Affairs: John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center & School (SWCS)
• Equal Opportunity & Mediation: Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute (DEOMI)
• Command & General Staff School (CGSS)

Fort Belvoir, VA

• Advised senior leaders on equal opportunity guidelines and organization assessments.
• Case management: investigated, interviewed and resolved employee relations issues and referred discrimination and harassment complaints to the appropriate agents.
• Developed and implemented plans, programs and procedures for promoting equal opportunity throughout the organization.
• Facilitated up to 3 - 5 monthly in-person training sessions on topics such as: Prevention of sexual harassment (POSH), managing conflict, ethnic and gender awareness, consideration of others, cultural awareness, and EO.
• Promoted positive human relationships, workplace morale, team cohesion.

Fort Meade, MD

• Mobilized (full-time) from Johnson & Johnson in 2005, returned to Training Specialist position in 2009.
• Project team lead for Human Resources organization start-up including HR systems and policies merge of 11 subsidiaries, 330,000 personnel.
• Partnered with functional business leaders and performed full-cycle recruitment.

Somerville, NJ

• Trained cross-functional employee population of 2,000 on enterprise level procurement systems (rational database).
• Facilitated weekly scheduled classroom training and managed logistics.
• Developed/designed training manuals and job aides.
• Provided expert end user help desk support.

Master'S Degree, Instructional Systems Design

Adult learning theories Learning technologies

Bachelor'S Degree, Business (Career) Education - Cte

Certificate, Human Resources Management

Event Management

Certificate, Equal Opportunity Managment

Equal opportunity, intercultural communication, and religious, racial, gender, and ethnic diversity and pluralism to civilian and military.