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Bend, Or, Us

I help clients release pressure, find center, and live their truth. Together we build roadmaps and actionable plans to achieve their professional and personal goals—whether it is to become a better leader, to communicate more effectively, to more easily problem-solve issues, or to feel happy, fulfilled, and engaged at work and beyond. I help them understand their intrinsic drivers and their subtle energy systems so that they can live a more fulfilling life.° Present engaging, high-quality workshops to women leaders on how to build self-awareness, self-esteem, and confidence for personal reinvention and professional pioneering as a critical part of their success (63% of participants desire deeper discussion, and 73% request slides)° Merge cognitive-behavioral coaching and energy medicine techniques, to help accelerate emotional intelligence, ability to deal with difficult conversations, and cultivate calm under pressure so even better delegation, collaboration, and confident decision-making is possible. Client outcomes include: increasing clarity by as much as 25% in six months and trust in partners and business outcomes by 20% ° Assess business operations for leaders desiring to drive talent management improvement strategies through my Strategic Discovery Day planning process, 360-degree assessments, stakeholder interviews, and focus groups.° Influential keynote presenter at women’s leadership events including Hearst Media’s Women At Work power breakfast series, Siena College Bowman Women’s Center “In Her Shoes” mentoring day, and “top presenter” designation winner, 2 years in a row, at Health Care Financial Management Association’s Leadership Conference° Launch the Women’s Work-Life Empowerment Program and Invincible Women’s Collective, an online women's group with 45+ members, formulating a resiliency process to train clients on how to strengthen themselves with more sustainable energy as they focus with intentionality, versus constant “fire-fighting”.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

Strategically crafted and executed a new role aligning business goals with people strategy in which I collaborate closely with the VP to align strategic priorities for 569 employees and drive his leadership team in a unified direction. Pioneer as a results-oriented strategist, supporting leadership effectiveness, ensuring flawless execution, and contributing to operational excellence. I am at the forefront of transformative initiatives, driving efficiency, innovation, and the overall success of the global support organization.° Reduced average monthly attrition by 29% after pioneering the department’s "Grow Your Own" workforce development initiative for 569 employees, delivering presentations across international offices in the USA, Canada, Australia, and Europe, and consistently engaging in monthly new hire training sessions, boosting global team cohesion and knowledge sharing.° Conducted 40 hours of needs discovery analysis on leadership skills and new hire training, leading to strategic trimester planning and initiatives that removed roadblocks to new hire effectiveness, continuous learning, and career growth.° Facilitated 20 workshops with middle-managers for the Trimester 2 Excelsior project, leading to the development of a new management framework for Global Support. Later led the Excelsior project in Trimester 3, successfully deploying 62 playbook checklists, increasing adherence by 100% and enhancing managerial and operational efficiency across the organization.° Collaborated with department leaders to understand their requirements for accepting Global Support staff, resulting in the creation of Role Reference sheets for career coaching.° Streamlined the onboarding process by optimizing an extensive 88-page document into 3 manageable, focused documents, improving the new hire integration process and training efficiency.

Norwalk, Connecticut, Us

My role involves serving as a strategy & operations leader with 10+ years of experience managing staff to deliver consistent operational excellence, continuous improvement, strategic proactive insights, and business leadership support as I champion and drive change initiatives for global growth.° Hired as a translator, promoted in year one, and advanced to project manager by 2014 in order to orchestrate all online help and user interface localization projects while facilitating 5 teams.° Responsible for directly managing a team of 2 and cross-functionally managing multiple software development teams while advising marketing, sales, and customer experience team members.° Reduced time to market by 92% in first three years, orchestrating online help and user interface localization projects with 3 vendors and 6 internal employees for 6 languages.° Streamline processes for ultimate team efficiency; co-authored company’s first localization playbook while partnering with leaders throughout the organization to develop strategies, facilitate cultural change, and system integration, in support of the corporate vision and mission for establishing a global market.° Oversee multi-million dollar translation vendor partnerships, writing presentations on validity of use, cost-base analysis and recommendations for engagement or disengagement. ° Pioneer the first self-guided training program and linguistic quality style guide for accurate global branding by 5 distributed translation teams. ° Advise executive management team on best marketing and communications practices for localization, including value proposition and formulating precision messaging tailored to each market.

Albany, N.Y., Us

° Delivered interactive, engaging learner-focused instruction for two courses each semester to include technology based learning and facilitated discussion keeping learners focused.° Implemented appropriate instructional procedures for student-centered teaching methods and conducted needs assessments and developed and delivered training to support student needs. ° Mentored students on career paths & majors, leveraging diverse personal experience bridging science, humanities, and business.

New Brunswick, Nj, Us

My role involved building sales, marketing and management skills, required as a next generation leader, after direct recruitment into the Leadership Development Program (less than 10 people selected annually) and promotion within 1 year from a product launch, marketing communications coordinator to territory rep.° Outperformed 67 sales representatives in the Northeast region for 3 years, ranking in the top 10, while selling 4 products to 160+ primary care and specialty physicians. ° Tasked to mentor 12 district team members in driving standards of performance and taking specific action to drive sales activities including effective territory management, business plan implementation and analytics application.° Created powerful partnerships, never done before, building a super team with other J&J subsidiary representatives to present joint pitches to maximize client time and sales quotas. ° Won Northeast Regional Award for partnering in sales, plus 11 peer-recognition awards for dependability, partnering, preparation & philanthropy. ° Formulated internal Marketing Communication strategies, including quarterly giveaway plans, to intensify thrill about new product launch while maintaining cost comparison and production-cost sheets for the brand team’s product launch projects.

Masters Of French Language, Culture & Linguistics

Bs, Biology, Minors In Chemistry & French

Us Department Of State Fatiti Grant Winner, Education

2008 Spffa Summer Study Scholarship Winner, French Language