Valerie O'Brien Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, Ca, Us

Irvine, California, United States

• Responsible for coordinating the integration activities of Edison Energy and its recently acquired subsidiary, Alfa Energy, as well as lead their organizational development & effectiveness (OD&E) functions.• Facilitates the organization design process and leads the identification of integrated functions and process development across the company.• Supports the completion of an integrated hiring and recruiting model and focusing on the new hire induction into the Edison Energy brand and culture.• Consults business leaders on Organizational Change Management (OCM) capability development. • Leads OCM Strategy & Plans for varying integration programs and initiatives across the company.• Centralizing global Learning and Development function to establish a vision and structure around L&D for the company. Helping to streamline Learning and Development activities across the company and ensure there is central visibility and strategic direction for every team.

California, United States

• Conceptualize and recommend the design and development of key organizational effectiveness programs, policies, and processes impacting 13,000+ employees contractors.• Collaborate with executive leadership teams to identify and implement organizational development strategies to improve overall performance.• Develop and facilitate training programs to enhance employee skills and competencies.• Conduct organizational assessments and provide recommendations for improvement.• Facilitate change management initiatives to ensure successful adoption of new processes and systems.• Lead performance management initiatives, including goal setting, performance reviews, and employee development plans.• Develop and implement diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives to create an inclusive workplace culture.• Provide coaching and support to managers and employees to improve overall effectiveness and engagement.

Eastvale, California, United States

• Led the development of the VPCare ministry by establishing a vision & mission, org design, processes & systems, leadership development pipeline, and then personally selected and recruited individuals to join the leadership and volunteer teams. Growing the ministry from one person to a department with two functions (Care & Prayer), along with 8-10 leadership roles and 20+ individual volunteer roles.• Develop and manage the Change Management Strategy for a relocation project that helped the senior executive leadership team (ELT) ensure a successful relocation from a temporary facility to a permanent building. Facilitated OCM training for leaders and volunteers to understand their role in leading change and managing resistance.• Developed and implemented the Transition & Communication Plan for an executive leader leaving to start a second church location.• Managed over 500 volunteers by developing a Community Group leadership development pipeline and recruitment process, as well as designing organizational structures and efficiencies.

Rosemead, Ca

• Provides internal change management consulting, working with top levels in the organization to implement a consistent change methodology.• Provides a broad range of consultative services to all levels of employees regarding policies and procedures related to work environment, team effectiveness, change management, and organizational design.• Conducts Organization Health Assessments combined with facilitated workshops designed to scope assessment needs and confirm goals, assess organization and identify root cause issues, identify appropriate intervention(s) to develop and implement strategic action plans.• Plan, develop, and implement the Employee Value Proposition (EVP) for SCE to attract prospective employees and retain and motivate current employees with the cultural mindset aligned with the company’s vision.• Assigned as one of six advisors to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and executive leadership to ensure consistency and alignment of culture-supportive projects across organization. Identify and recommend culture initiatives that best enable the organization to achieve its business objectives, as well as monitors, measures and reports on progress.• Lead the review of pivotal touchpoints that employee’s experience along the employee lifecycle to identify and implement improvement opportunities. Adopted in a phased approach, beginning with existing training programs.

Rosemad, Ca

• Directed cross-functional teams of internal project managers and external senior consultants to implement lead change management for nearly a dozen projects/programs across the enterprise (incl. Human Resources, Operations, Information Technology, and Regulatory Compliance). For example:o IT Access Management and the Master Access Project (MAP); directly impacting all SCE and managed services providers (~20,000 individuals). Implementing the SAP GRC Access Control solution allowed SCE to move beyond manual processes for managing access risk to automatically detecting, remediating, and preventing access risk violations. Resulting in over 20 communication messages, 30 instructional webinars, eight Q&A sessions, and 18 job aids.o Developed and executed the mitigation plan for a major issue with the procured training vendor providing OCM deliverables. Provided IT senior management strategic direction to remove the vendor and then led the team of internal resources to complete all OCM deliverables. Resulting in ~$73k cost savings for the business (original budget for training vendor was $118k, total budget paid was $45k).o Responsible for the implementation of compliance-related training programs supporting the transformational Operational Excellence (OpX) Safety initiative. Impacting all leaders of office employees (~1,650 chiefs, including executives). Partnered with the OpX team working directly with sponsorship from the Corporate Health & Safety director and vice president on all program activities. o Supported the Ethics & Compliance operation goal, Enterprise Compliance Management System (ECMS) a single compliance management tool. SCE will utilize ECMS to centralize compliance data and standardize compliance management and reporting. These improvements will provide greater assurance to regulators, senior management and the Board of Directors that the company has a comprehensive view of the legal and regulatory mandates governing SCE.

Irwindale, Ca

Irwindale, Ca

Irwindale, Ca

Chino, Ca