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Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

C-Suite and Executive Search across disciplines and industries. Board of Directors Search with consideration for organizations' strategic future states and increased diversity in the broadest sense.

Retained executive search, placing top talent candidates into executive positions and on Boards of Directors in health care, technology, manufacturing, hospitality, financial services, and non-profit sectors.

San Francisco Bay Area

Leader of global HR team in Silicon Valley high-tech with $550M in revenue. Recruited by CEO I had worked with previously to help reverse a multi-year downturn. The team rebuilt bookings and deferred revenue and positioned the company for acquisition. Supported Board of Directors, established executive incentive programs, and built steady increases in employee confidence in the future. Successful close of acquisition in June 2009.

Recruited to lead global HR for an HR services business. Refocused HR strategy, conducted extensive executive recruitment, upskilled resources without adding cost, improved ROI of HR investment, decreased employment litigation and drove improved employee productivity and satisfaction. Won both the Companies that Care and Minnesota WorkLife Champions Awards.

First executive-level HR leader recruited to implement a strategic plan that required improved human capital and organizational capability to achieve. Led several acquisitions, and built core programs in all HR functional areas to support growth. Named Executive of the Year in 2003 for M and A leadership, cultural improvements and strong partnership.

Privately-held organization, first executive-level HR leader hired to support growth plans. Built HR infrastructure, hired an entire executive team, integrated multiple smaller organizations/holdings into a unified business in strong partnership with CEO and CFO.

San Francisco Bay Area

Began as Manager of Management Development at Cray Research, then held arious roles as HR business partner, OD consultant, and increasing levels of management span. Last role, following the acquisition by Silicon Graphics (SGI), was leading HR for the largest product business unit (Servers and Supercomputers) supporting a $1B business. Established strong credibility across teams in the Midwest and Silicon Valley.

Various roles in Compensation, Supervisory Development, Management Development, Executive Development and Organization Development. Managed learning and development function of successive scope, project managed opinion surveys and helped found the first drop-in sick child-care center in downtown Minneapolis to support our employees.

M.A., Human Development, Emphasis In Od

Ba, French, Psychology

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Presidential Scholarship, First Decade Award, French and Social Science Honor Societies