Career and Life Coaching designed to help you decide what you really want in your work and in your life, develop a plan to accomplish it, and support you to achieve your goals. You will break free of whatever rut you are in, and you will get your life back into balance and have renewed vitality and direction.

Develop and deliver career exploration programming for Full Time, Executive, Evening and Online MBAs to help them identify their employment goals and to support them to achieve career success. As a member of the admissions interviewing team, I help the school select great talent. We also work closely with employers to meet their hiring needs. at all levels. Please get in touch with me if you would like to know more.

Lead an MBA Career Management Team to deliver an excellent career component to the MBA experience, while achieving high student employment metrics for both first year full time MBA internships and second-year MBA full time employment. The MBA Career Management Team provides exceptional customer service to students, alumni, and recruiters in a fast paced environment with competing demands. Students participate in Career Treks, attend local and national recruiting conferences, and network with alumni to build lifelong MBA Career Management skills.*The Full-Time MBA program in the Eller College of Management at the University of Arizona has risen again in the 2021 U.S. News & World Report Best Business Schools Rankings, and now comes in at number 22 among public universities and number 46 overall, up from number 52 overall and number 27 among publics last year.

*Developed Servant Leadership programming for experienced Leaders, and for those considering leadership.*Designed and facilitated a three part Leadership Academy based on Center for Creative Leadership Model of Leader Competencies. Participants report an improved understanding of their role, how to work with their team members, and how to work within the organization.*Coached experienced and new to role leaders, leading to improved communication skills, self-awareness and self-management.*Partnered with Directors to deliver the appropriate onsite professional development opportunities for their management teams. *Designed metric driven Individual Professional Development program aligned with the Strategic Plan which is being implemented with the Leadership Team throughout the organization.*Designed, developed and implemented a Talent Selection Specialist training to improve the quality and retention of new hires through the use of pre-selection tools, improved interviewing and a rigorous evaluation process.*Developed and delivered continuous performance feedback training, to improve employee engagement, retention and professional development for all employees.*Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt project improved new employee training and retention through improved preceptorship.*Learning consultant to Lean Six Sigma teams to design and facilitate training pilots to reduce turnover through increased manager communication with new hires. Developed and delivered Lean Six Sigma refresher courses to help Green Belts retain their knowledge while awaiting the results of their Improve and Control phases of their projects.Certifications:CareerLeaderHarrison AssessmentsKepner Tregoe Problem Solving Decision MakingLean Six Sigma Green Belt CertificationMBTI Types I and IIPredictive IndexCorporate Coach University Trainer the Trainer Level CertificationProfessional AssociationsSHRM and HRPBCICF

Design and deliver leadership and career development, change management, organizational effectiveness, performance improvement, and communications training and facilitation. Skilled executive coach, and career and professional development consultant. Experience working across public and private sectors, across all organizational levels and with ages ranging from young adults to retirees. *Performed needs analysis and updated Leadership Development program design for a billion dollar aerospace manufacturing company with locations throughout the US, Europe and Asia.* Designed and integrated train the trainer guides for national roll out of courses piloted in the Pacific Northwest. Examples of courses written and delivered include Fundamentals of Supervision, Performance Feedback, Communication Skills, Team Building, Presentation Skills, Working with a Multi-generational Workforce, MBTI Type II training and feedback, Career Assessment and Career Management.

Applied evidence-based leadership development principles and practices to leading a team of eleven professional, contract and classified staff, assisting over 200 full time and 300 part time high potential adult students achieve career success. MBA Career Services operated as an internal Learning and Development department offering a full range of career development services, including career education, strategic career consulting and career coaching, leadership development and change management. A successful Mentor program in MBA Career Services assists students in their career development, and alumni career services strengthen the connections between alumni and the school.*Ranked 6th nationally for student satisfaction with MBA Career Services. Entered Business Week top tier MBA rankings in October 2008 with special citation, “Students rave about hard working career center." *Consistently maintained top tier MBA placement results (audited) four years in a row, despite deep recession.*Streamlined and updated systems and processes, improving the teams' ability to deliver great coaching to students and superior customer service to recruiters, mentors and alumni. After the first year and the years following, 100% of our recruiters said they would return to recruit at the UW Foster School of Business and 100% said they would recommend recruiting UW Foster MBAs to other recruiters.

Development advisor, performance consultant and project manager for six state zone serving over 600 agents for this Fortune 50 company. Subject matter expert in assessment tools.*Designed program to recruit, select and provide leadership development for new Agency Field Executives (AFEs). Pacific Northwest (PNW) Zone new AFEs were acknowledged by corporate as being “the best prepared” of all new AFEs engaged with the new leadership development path. Model was implemented as a Best Practice approach endorsed by Corporate. *Led successful effort to bring an integrated Agent Development Program to the PNW Zone to improve Agent business acumen and leadership skills.*Used ADDIE model to produce quality General Sales Training program for Agent Team Members. Agent office sales data confirmed increased sales resulting from the training both immediately after the class and in follow-up evaluations 3 months later.