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Bremerton, Washington, US

Establish and drive the people strategy for a multi-billion dollar financial institution dedicated to the prosperity of the communities it serves. Charged with evolving the culture and talent programs to enable growth and align to core values.

Achieved multiple professional certifications with a focus on leadership and diversity, equity and inclusion. Recharged through travel, gardening and personal and professional development. Explored various career opportunities and said yes to one offering new challenges, an incredible culture, talented people, and a commitment to making a positive impact.

Seattle, Washington, US

• Established and drove people strategy for 2.2K employees within a Fortune 500 company, serving as consultant and business partner with executive leadership to build organizational capability and facilitate large-scale.
• Boosted engagement 6% over baseline and 5% over corporate benchmark while improving performance, transparency, and perception of favoritism and bias by developing skill frameworks used to define the bar for hiring.
• Optimized diversity of talent and eased pressure on conversion and cost by creating robust talent market strategy, including competitive review of total compensation and equity pilot that tested the impact of.
• Increased female representation by 11% in 2 years, eliminating gap between male and female voice of employee survey results by developing strategy to improve work experience for women, designing leader-led listening.
• Reduced turnover by 3% through initiatives to build a culture of inclusion, including creating reporting to improve transparency of people metrics and designing conscious inclusion training to raise managers’ awareness.
• Strengthened leader effectiveness by developing a new survey tool, providing leaders specific, actionable feedback from their team.

Seattle, WA, US

• Owned all HR functions and safety for public sector agency with 2K employees as Chief Human Resource Officer, managing team of 50 top-performing professionals and multimillion-dollar budget. Reported to Executive.
• Spearheaded diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) agenda in partnership with Executive Director; designed curriculum to build racial justice literacy amongst executive team and positioned DEI as a strategic priority.
• Shaped and implemented innovative internship program, empowering 100 high school youth from disadvantaged economic areas with paid internships, professional development, and exposure to jobs in airport/marine industries.
• Introduced and implemented HR business partner model and private industry best practices across the Port of Seattle.

Seattle, WA, US

• Led development and implementation of HR strategy for 2.7K employees within Weyerhaeuser’s $2B Cellulose Fibers business. Managed distributed team of 15 HR professionals (10 directs) across North America, Poland, and.
• Developed and drove business-wide talent management strategy. Assessed talent based on performance and potential. Partnered with leaders and employees to identify strengths and gaps against key competencies, resulting.
• Enabled pipeline of talent for 65% of leadership positions by designing and implementing innovative professional development program for engineers. Teamed with key leaders to identify knowledge and skills required to.

Seattle, WA, US

Held various human resources positions with increasing responsibility. Worked with salaried and hourly, non-union and union employees in the U.S. and Canada.

Bachelor Economics, Eli Broad College Of Business

Masters Labor Relations And Human Resources, Human Resources Management And Services