Nicole Samuel (Lynn) Email & Phone Number

• Consulting: Consult senior executives / C-Suite leaders to provide clarity and confidence in planning/roadmaps based on client ambitions/strategy. Leverage frameworks to improve decisions and execute use cases. Support.
• Leadership: Lead diverse teams of consultants and orchestrate work.
• Communication: Influence executive leaders to make decisions. Excellent communication and presentation skills with high emotional intelligence.
• Relationship-building: Build strong trust-based partnerships at all levels/geographies.
• Coaching: Coach junior associates and shepherd performance management. Redesigned a training curriculum using blended learning techniques, refreshed training modules for increased virtual engagement.
• Project Management: Manage simultaneous projects, activities, and people. Employ agile principles. Excellent at context-switching, handling multiple priorities, and time management. Versed in change management and risk.

Bangalore, India

• Met with internal groups to analyze needs and refine project scope.
• Provided recommendations for inventory optimization using statistical forecasting techniques in SAS.
• Achieved significant process improvements to a supplier order process through process mapping and leveraging technology.
• Researched and utilized supply chain best practices, and benchmarked best practices against successful multinational companies.
• Identified a business development opportunity through competitor and industry analysis. Developed a strategy, ran a cost-benefit analysis, and provided an implementation plan that would position The Mahindra Group as a.

Chicago, IL

Worked with Local First Chicago as a pro bono consultant to deliver communication strategies that aimed to increase brand awareness, engage 8000 member subscribers, and increase organization revenue.

Oak Park

• Co-developed and managed a food retailer and healthy food access program. Provided consulting to food retail store owners to increase effectiveness of product placement and in-store promotion.
• Worked closely with local government health agencies to build a coalition and find strategic alliances in the private, non-profit, and public sectors.
• Built partnerships with produce and food distributors to improve supplier diversity, and managed new equipment logistics for 21 food retailer locations.
• Created and implemented promotion strategies to stimulate community demand for healthy food products.
• Managed communication processes and developed communication messages to build awareness and provide guidance to project stakeholders. Marketing materials/messages included: website content/layout, promotional.
• Led the recruitment and training process of 75 Review Panelists to provide independent recommendations on how to allocate $4 million in grants.

• Led a cross-functional team of senior management to redesign a new account process that increased efficiency and capacity, created organizational structure, and improved communication across departments. Utilized.
• Initiated a corporate strategy and operations alignment by facilitating department integration, which increased efficiency.
• Created a sales training and incentive program for Client Services, which led to increased sales revenue.
• Analyzed sales data and developed an executable sales strategy, which resulted in increased revenue across 90% of accounts.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Promoted three times with a proven history of creating value.
• Hired, trained, and managed 50 office staff throughout a four-statewide division.
• Planned and conducted weekly conference calls, monthly meetings, and quarterly workshops to improve performance and development of office staff.
• Developed human capital strategies to staff division growth plans.
• Analyzed statistics and recommended strategies to increase sales rep recruitment, which increased over 50% in 2006 and 2007.
• Redesigned a recruitment tool, which led to increased recruits and was later adopted by another company division.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Contributed to division growth of 325% within two years.
• Conducted market research for division expansion in new cities.
• Member of a sales team that broke summer sales records, including summer campaign sales over $1 million.

Talent Analytics Certificate

Pmp

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Activities and Societies: President, International Business Society

Bs, Business Management

Activities and Societies: VP of International Business Club