Patrice Funderburg, She.Her Email & Phone Number

Charlotte, Nc, Us

Charlotte, North Carolina

Responsible for the vision and strategic direction of one of Charlotte's oldest nonprofits exclusively serving justice-involved people and their families.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Educate to Engage, LLC is a NC HUB certified boutique consulting company that focuses on developing people and organizations for transformational change - from self to systems - through education, exposure, and engagement. We offer fee-based consulting and training/facilitation services custom designed to our clients unique needs. We also offer a free community education program based on the book, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness, by Michelle Alexander.- Past Board Co-Chair at The Center for Community Transitions- Mecklenburg County Detention Center Instructor with Changed Choices- Mecklenburg County Detention Center Instructor with Life Connections of the Carolinas- (NC) State Reentry Council Collaborative member- Charlotte Mecklenburg Library Learning Circle program partner- Advocate Member at Natl Council for Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women & Girls- Board Member at Beauty After the Bars - Rockwood Leadership Women in Racial Justice & Human Rights alum- Social Transformation Project Art of Transformational Consulting alum- Urban Bush Women Summer Leadership Institute alum

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Responsible for supporting the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) while functioning as the senior intermediary across the HR executive team (Corp HR, Comp/Benefits, Talent Acquisition, Learning & Change Management) and Belk Executive Committee (CEO + direct reports) to ensure people organization and business continuity.

Charlotte, North Carolina Area

Contracted to provide thought leadership to CEO + direct reports on diversity & inclusion trends/best practices and lead D&I initiatives in alignment with corporate strategy including Workplace, Customer Engagement/Sales, Supplier Diversity (partner with DIR, Supplier Diversity), Corporate Giving, and Marketing.

Charlotte, Nc

Exceeded unprecedented goal of one-third aggregate spend with diverse firms. Responsible for developing processes, creating metrics, and reporting analytics which support the Diversity Contracting Policy; including creating forms and tools, facilitating communication between vendors and prospective small businesses, managing supplier portal, managing college intern(s), and supporting the Senior Advisor at media, business, and community events.

Responsible for strategy development and company-wide business integration of Lowe’s Supplier Diversity and Small Business Subcontracting program including framework, governance, process, education, national and market-specific outreach, and metrics.

Responsible for developing business focused people programs, services and systems, which support the operationalization of diversity and inclusion at Lowe's; including establishing metrics that measure the effectiveness of inclusion initiatives; providing leadership and partnership to multiple cross-functional diversity leadership teams; project management and collaboration with relevant business units; management of Employee Resource Groups* Successfully designed process and launch of ERG's at Lowe's in partnership with Business Process Management and Legal * Successfully conducted external benchmarking study in partnership with senior leadership* Successfully delivered diversity education strategy and programs in partnership with Training & Development and vendor partners* Development of diversity brand messaging in partnership with Marketing/Advertising* Influenced Lowe's Foundation gift to UNCF and HSF in partnership with Community Relations and Corporate Communications* Manage workforce development volunteer partnership with Urban League of Central Carolinas; received Volunteer of the Year, 2009* Manage national/regional/local diversity organization partnerships in support of business unit programs and intiatives* Point of contact for NMSDC and WBENC national and regional councils; successfully planned and executed Supplier Diversity Professionals Forum at Lowe's; nominated for CMSDC 2010 Coordinator of the Year award

Responsible for establishing and executing strategic human capital partnership with Logistics & Supply Chain lines of business by performing all functions related to hiring experienced professionals to staff corporate office and corporate field based positions. Manage design and development of field-based recruiting process for distribution network (14000+ employees).

Responsible for development and implementation of end-to-end recruitment model for (new) Buffalo Service Center.• Reduced turnover by 20% in less than 6 months; • Successfully increased service center staffing by 40%; • Successfully established employment branding campaign which led to company being named one of Business First “2005 Best Places to Work in Western New York.” • Established partnerships with local and government agencies for recruitment initiatives • Partnered with local colleges and universities to increase university recruiting • Assigned business partner with enterprise-wide vendor management company (CHIMES) for site-specific contract labor needs• Led selection assessment (ePredix & QWIZ) project implementation for site

Responsible for providing quality services to students, corporate clients, and the community through sales and marketing activities to maximize growth and conversion rates for interns, and provide leadership, coaching, and mentoring to develop affiliate staff. • Developed recruitment strategy that successfully resulted in over 70% more online applications • Successfully increased intern placement by 61%; • Developed comprehensive performance management tool to evaluate intern performance;

Responsible for establishing recruitment strategy by developing recruitment networks via college relations programs, recruitment advertising, career fairs, professional and community organizations and referral programs. • Successfully negotiated $35k contract with monster.com for local e-Recruiting program; • Successfully negotiated $40k contract with PeopleClick (formerly Criterion) to implement affirmative action software program and served as project manager; • Successfully reduced turnover from 26% (FY'00) to less than 15% in FY'02; • Served as project leader for company-wide diversity and mentoring initiative including coordinating heritage month celebrations;• Presented “Diversity Appeal” at IQPC Diversity Summit 2001 in Chicago; • Successfully coordinated Take Our Children To Work Day Program for over 150 children company-wide for two consecutive years.

Master Of Science - Ms, Organizational Communication & Development

Ba, Human Resource Management

Business Administration

Activities and Societies: - Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc. - Kroger Cooperative Education Management Development Program - United.