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My mission: Garner attention through storytelling to empower all to flex brilliant tech superpowers in service to others. Think Microsoft 365 adoption and change management with a twist. Humans are built for positive disruption. We evolve. Embracing this fact allows us to experiment, engage and empathize with confidence. Whether facilitating the evolution of IT itself, cultivating digital champions, crafting communications plans or curating authentic conversations, continuous curiosity will amplify actionable insights and accelerate learning.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Designed comprehensive training on advanced digital collaboration tools, representing the core product offering, completed by ~250,000. Training consists of assessments, brief videos, PDFs, interactive exercises, practice files, polls and badges• Authored and facilitated 15+ immersive, instructor-led workshops a year to train business leaders on best practices for personal productivity, team collaboration and digital transformation• Utilized change management principles to amplify Microsoft Customer Success Manager (CSM) efforts, driving adoption/active usage of Office 365 through consultative workshops• Led insight strategy to capture intelligence on products, customers and markets• Created the first course analytics dashboard, correlating performance to positive behavior change• Coached team members to pursue interests, leading to a colleague winning several PowerApps contests• Consulted Microsoft Worldwide Compete team on competitor best practices, including behavioral science and product adoption methods, enabling Microsoft to secure additional engineering resources• Designed Microsoft programs (delivered to dozens of Microsoft-nominated customers) that increased demand for modern communications, leveraging Outlook mobile, Microsoft Teams and Yammer

• Elevated the perception of Facebook Research in talent acquisition/recruiting efforts by setting a communications and engagement strategy and encouraging a regular publishing cadence• Surveyed key influencers in Microsoft (specifically Retail, Office of the CTO and OEM orgs) and made recommendations to optimize the flow of information I love the social life of information and champion community as an organizing principle to all with whom we partner. Three cheers for igniting community and stoking the social life of information as we make sparks fly, slack off and yammer on in the Carpool lane! We confidently solve communication problems by unleashing the power of story, cultivating "working out loud" circles and embracing emerging innovations at the edge. As a strategy manager at Carpool I evangelize scalable learning as the way forward and harness the principles of the quantum world to help you shine.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Broadened organizational intent beyond IT to support strategic business objectives with Office 365• Coached enterprise customers through a tailored change management journey to optimize ROI • Invited customers to share best practices among peers to increase loyalty• Engaged globally dispersed Customer Success team in weekly trust-building activities to humanize remote work, celebrate customer wins and evaluate new approaches to change managementInspire all to #WorkWonders by inviting strategic adoption and application of Office 365 investments. Coach customers to new levels of performance by considering all aspects of an intention change management methodology (http://fasttrack.office.com/drive-adoption). Advocate open, transparent work and celebrate innovation at the edge of business. Cultivate relationships of trust to amplify the impact of customers and partners. Put passion and play back into the workday.

Greater Salt Lake City Area

• Set strategy and maintained roadmap for the intranet and collaboration product offerings in tandem with key stakeholders from HR, Corporate Communications and other steering committee members• Cultivated a highly engaged enterprise social community in Yammer with ~70% of 6,000 people active in a month. Connected 11 departments and 13 international areas in more meaningful ways across boundaries/hierarchies/languages/time zones and created greater organizational alignment• Led efforts to modernize the global intranet to increase usability (card sorting, treejack tests), enhance search results and deliver relevant corporate communications and community-contributed knowledge• Advocated SharePoint platform capabilities across 1,300+ team sites for structured collaboration, internal communications, extranet scenarios and full application development• Selected among 50 internal communicators to consult an executive team on efforts to minimize travel and increase awareness/adoption of business process improvements and innovations globallyIn addition to investing in significant user research for the Intranet (card sort, treejack studies, etc), I was product manager for collaboration tools including SharePoint and Yammer. I also aided management in modeling service options by mashing up HR data with SharePoint site collection ownership. I connected people with people (and products + conversations) by integrating Yammer into a product / service catalog. I cultivated open, innovative environments for a global grassroots leadership initiative in which uniquely tailored learning experiences enhanced better business performance and storytelling.

• Partnered with key leadership development managers to upskill employees, prepare future leaders and accelerate cultural change as an anticipated 85% of the organization’s leadership would soon retire• Created a top performing (measured by average replies, participants, conversation lifespans) online community devoted to implementing the worldwide leadership competency model • Influenced evaluation and selection of SmartBuilder (elearning authoring tool) for 50 learning designers• Supported and trained the SmartBuilder user community to minimize course development time and boost learner engagement with design elements (simulation, branching, gamification, social learning)• Distributed and managed elearning courses via NetDimensions LMS platformBuilding community creativity around SmartBuilder (elearning authoring tool). Facilitating learning environments and training.

Enticing those who need EnticeLabs. Storytelling with video and motion graphics to market an HR industry shift.

Configure, customize, and migrate site to drupal. Consult on and integrate lead management solutions, e-commerce package, and SEO.

• Managed a virtual team of script writers, graphic designers and voice-over talent to increase post-engagement value by producing innovative continuing professional education (CPE) coursesManaged & motivated a virtual team of creative contractors to repurpose expert IT & accounting industry knowledge into CPE e-learning. Led course production from start to finish with writers, SMEs, & designers. Championed social learning initiatives.

Pioneered the efforts of the uGenius Personal Teller Machine (PTM). The technology optimizes teller efficiency across multiple locations. Developed strategic business plans, collaborated with systems engineers and hardware integrators and managed client projects.

Led SOX IT engagements for companies including FranklinCovey, Longs Drugs, Extra Space Storage, and 1-800 Contacts.

Coordinated the efforts of a team of programmers & managed client expectations. Piloted group dynamic initiatives such as the creation of a cohesive mission & vision & established much needed policies to manage growing demands on the expanding team.

Created interactive user interfaces & online university courses. Mastered Flash MX concepts & ActionScript coding capabilities through self-motivated study.

Masters, Learning Technologies

Bs, Information Systems