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WittKieffer's mission is to Improve Quality of Life through Impactful Leadership. All our services are grounded on deep insight about organizations focused on quality of life (healthcare, life sciences, education and the not-for-profit sectors) and incorporate the tenets of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Key member of Culture, Change & Communications global team with responsibility for generating sales, revenue, and developing project delivery resources to deepen their expertise. Assembled and led project teams and served as Client Engagement Lead across multiple client projects. Provided ongoing feedback to project team members over the course of client engagements to support their development and meet client needs. Developed consultants on client projects and through several successful job promotions. Mentored new hires to accelerate their onboarding and build subject matter expertise in key organizational solution areas.

Led Korn Ferry's culture transformation solutions in North America. During the pandemic, mobilized a team to quickly convert client work-in progress and culture offerings to full virtual delivery. Led North America culture enablement and education - Culture Symposium - for over 50 consultants on culture offerings to meet growing client demand. Assembled and led a core team to design and deliver this symposium virtually over the course of 6 months. Created pricing guidelines, templates and pitch decks for North America consultants to drive culture assessment, alignment and transformation sales. Partnered with client executives and their teams to successfully navigate through crisis management as well as through rapid growth acceleration.

Managed Analysts, Consultants and Principals across solution areas in Philadelphia and Washington DC offices. Achieved 9% utilization improvement, contributing to an overall 25% improvement across North America. Partnered with Territory Sales Leader to co-deliver Know It and Sell It training to 30 senior and mid-level consultants to drive greater commercial impact and strengthen needs-based consultative selling skills. Created interactive change management toolkit specifically customized to support digital transformation strategy implementation for a global healthcare and vaccines company. Served on North America Leadership Team on an interim assignment to shape, design, and support internal change management to drive NA transformation efforts. Developed content and talking points for US townhalls and implemented feedback loops to inform messaging and track progress. Drove 98% completion rate as US Executive sponsor for consultant Skills & Qualifications database to support resourcing for client sales and delivery.

Managed mid and senior level consultants, including Shareholders, across 3 offices to drive sales and elevate consulting skills. Partnered with HR leaders in healthcare company to design and deliver a high impact leadership program customized for sales, marketing and commercial business leaders. Leaders assessed as creating the most energizing work environment for their teams, combined with higher Emotional Intelligence scores, outperformed their peers in additional sales quota achieved.

Core member of team responsible for sales, account relationships and client delivery. US account lead for 2 global healthcare clients. Grew both accounts by over 20% YoY, for 3 consecutive years. Helped to design and deliver leadership program, in collaboration with academic faculty, to develop new leaders. Over 70% of participants progressed to become successful business unit leaders and executive leaders.

Supported senior consultants to sell and deliver client solutions to healthcare and technology clients. Conducted research on companies, created proposal decks and attended client project meetings. Managed customized assessment centers for more than 10 pharmaceutical clients to select sales and commercial leaders through competency-based assessments and a variety of simulated exercises and role plays.

Responsible for tracking and analyzing the healthcare products industry worldwide. Work required strong strategic planning skills and in-depth knowledge of organizations, company structures and current events in the healthcare and related industries. Supported approximately 30 consulting professionals in Korn Ferry International's Healthcare Products Practice. Responsibilities included compiling and coordinating information to support client projects. Work demanded strong analytical skills, information technology skills, and the ability to handle multiple priority projects in a fast-paced environment.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Industrial/Organizational Psychology

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, Cum Laude