Director, Talent And Organizational Development | Program Manager, Human Resources
Houston, Texas, United States
Promoted to Director from Assistant Director of HRCreate, execute, and manage inclusive talent development strategy and programs, including Careers at Rice and Rice Leaders Programs. Partner with executive, HR, Compliance, EEO, and DEI / Inclusive stakeholders to design and lead campus-wide training. Direct HR policy administration and risk assessment initiatives. Impact business decisions with targeted development programs and learning resources that increase employees' skills and knowledge to meet business goals. Manage $60K budget and employees, teams, and interns. Hire, interview, and evaluate direct reports.🔸 Drove organizational change, initially met with great resistance when first announced, by conducting seven focus groups with employees and utilizing human-centered design and organizational development strategies to engage and encourage communications, which led to acceptable solutions and needed culture change.🔸 Played critical leadership role in second-century vision of improved communications across leaders and staff with town-hall meetings that changed approachability of President and engagement of employees; chartered project, organized team, and facilitated sessions that identified solutions and drove improvements.🔸 Strategized and developed coaching program that leveraged skills of internal coaches and allowed employees to achieve professional goals.🔸 Reduced compliance risk, eliminated inconsistencies, implemented HR best practices, and increased communications of values and expectations enterprise-wide by working in tandem with Chief Compliance Officer, HR team, and stakeholders to update and streamline policies.🔸 Increased thousands of employees' skills, equipped management to lead diverse employees effectively, fostered culture of excellence and results by building, managing, and improving instructor-led, asynchronous, and virtual training programs / courses aligned with learning requirements and overarching business strategy.
