Megan Daley Woods Email & Phone Number

Stow, Ma, Us

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Not your typical life sciences Human Resource executive and consultant. Known for being candid while diplomatic and spending time at the ‘bench’ getting to know the business. Creative and curious collaborator who encourages innovation, team dynamics, and ownership at every level. Growth-minded, and committed to aligning the business to the vision. Strong foundation background in HR, with extensive experience in organizational development, compensation, benefits, employee relations, coaching, and talent development. Brings Project Management, M&A, IPO and Board experience in to my work.

Watertown, Massachusetts, Us

Member of Dyno's Synthesis (leadership) Team, building the (HR) function to ensure Dyno's Culture effectively evolves during a time of growth and change.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Member of Arbor’s Leadership Team, building the (HR) function to ensure Arbor’s People and Community are the driving forces behind its success.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Cambridge, Massachusetts, Us

Executive team member strategically directing the design and successful delivery of people programs linked to business strategy and supporting the company values and culture. Translates company strategy and vision into actions that move the organization towards successfully embracing company goals and operating with shared values and behaviors. Successfully took the company from private to public enterprise in first six months of employment.

Basel, Baselstadt, Ch

Head HR Research Cambridge, Program OfficeCo-leader Genesis Labs, Culture and Ideation HeadDesigned, implemented and led a CEO sponsored internal innovation incubator that identified over 90 team projects and resulted in the launch of 5 novel, game-game-changing projects delivering on novel, early research.Co-led the design and global implementation of the Novartis Genesis Labs, an internal startup/accelerator for home-grown novel projects or initiatives, enabling a new, additional channel for collaborative innovation.Achieved over 90 team project submissions in the first request for applications with over 300 scientists operating beyond their organizational structure. Addressed increased turnover of entrepreneurial employees and unfavorable employee engagement results. Retained innovative and entrepreneurial employees by empowering ownership of team strategy, operating parameters, and budget development leading to employees being fully engaged.

Basel, Baselstadt, Ch

Established shared leadership team ownership for hiring and talent strategies to deliver measurable outcomes such as improved favorability to highest quartile in employee engagement surveys, reduction of performance-based turnover of new hires to 0% over 4 year period and created leader-led development program to reduce on boarding acclimation time and gain year on year talent pipeline improvement.Implemented a focused strategy for attracting, retaining, and engaging talent that met the unique needs of the team and its business strategy. Evaluated and improved the candidate selection process that attracted and retained top talent and increased employee engagement results within the organization. Encouraged employees to recruit talent to create a candidate pipeline for existing and future hires. Identified gaps in the selection, hiring, and onboarding process, and presented findings to the senior leaders which led to the next phase of the candidate selection process. Created mechanism for managers to hire candidates missing non-critical requirements by providing clearly-defined parameters and expectations for onboarding and the first 3-6 months of employment.Facilitated communication forums with managers, senior leaders, and supporting staff for official buy in for the newly revised Talent Acquisition Plan.

Basel, Baselstadt, Ch

Strategic partner to line clients. Supporting and enabling scientists to conduct great science and drug discovery, with a focus on leadership development, personal development and team building.Strength in design of team building retreats, strategy development and participatory engagement of employees. Talent Management - Focus on reducing time to fill and time to new hire engagement through the analysis and building of process for strong talent pool, early talent engagement and talent development from time of offer.

Basel, Baselstadt, Ch

Lynnfield, Ma, Us

HR Generalist for Headquarters (two sites) and nationwide Sales organization.

Lynnfield, Ma, Us

Responsible for implementing the strategic design, evaluation and coordination of HR practices within NIBR. Act as key HR Partner to head(s) of the supported client groups and the corresponding management teams. Supports the client group in all HR issues including helping to reach operational and strategic directives by acting as consultant and change agent. Interacts with senior internal and/or external personnel on significant Human Resource matters

Lynnfield, Ma, Us

Project Manager for M&A activities between HP Hood, Crowley Foods and Kemps. Led project activities for integration of three HR organizations, a shared benefits and payroll platform.

Lynnfield, Ma, Us

Designed, developed and delivered company-wide training programs and their complementary training materials. Worked closely with local HR Managers, Plant Managers, and Help Desk Support to schedule training times and dates. Monitored and improved program effectiveness through employee surveys. Conducted needs assessments as they related to e-learning opportunities for staff members, teams and the organization.- Implemented and administered a new online Performance Management system and corresponding competencies for the organization. Trained employees at both corporate and plant levels; developed and implemented train the trainer (TtT) program for HR organization. Assessed effectiveness of online tool through user feedback on ease of use and made appropriate adjustments to system. - Worked with Hood’s technology team and played project management role during development of a company Intranet. Trained employees on how to use the Intranet to increase communication within and between departments.- Administered day to day management of other company tools and benefits such as Company Car program, New Hire Orientation Process, and manage Company events (flu shots, United Way campaign).

Lynnfield, Ma, Us

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Education And History

Mba, Business/Commerce, General