I designed and teach the course “Meaningful Careers: Strategies for Shaping Your Career with Purpose” at UC Berkeley. This course guides students through a journey of self-discovery, career exploration, and strategic skill enhancement. It is tailored for data social science students, helping them align their passions, values, and strengths with career opportunities in a rapidly evolving field. Through a mix of lectures, interactive workshops, and guest speakers, students develop personalized career strategies to pursue fulfilling and impactful careers.

As a member of the research community, provide insights to shape the content HBR develops and enrich the understanding of perspectives and ideas from HBR as well as the broader world of management and leadership.

Works closely with Norwest and its broad portfolio of companies to educate and guide them on diversity and inclusion strategies and best practices.

Support Zeal Capital's portfolio companies with DEI, HR and Talent related projects.

Led the entire recruiting effort for ClearSlide - both technical and non-technical positions. Started as a Sr. Sales Recruiter supporting the Enterprise Sales team to hire: Regional Vice Presidents, Account Executives, Account Managers, Sales Development Reps, Customer Success & Adoption team members. Focused on creating and executing a streamlined interview process that gave candidates a great experience while establishing ClearSlide's employment brand.

Commercial Sales and Operations Recruiter for commercial sales department. Worked regularly with sales leadership to hire such positions as: Director of Sales Operations, Director of Retail Sales, Sales Managers, Sales Operations Analysts and Customer Service Reps.

Worked onsite as a Sr. Sales Recruiter at SolarCity in San Mateo - the first company to provide solar power system design, financing, installation and monitoring services from a single source.Hired: Regional Sales Managers, Inside Sales Consultants, Project Development Managers, Sales Operations, Sales TrainersAlso recruited onsite for SugarCRM in Cupertino - the open source CRM software company taking on Salesforce! Hired: Front-End Developers, Back-End Developers, Database Architects,Cloud Architects, QA Engineers, Engineering Managers, CRM Implementation Leaders, Inside Sales and Account Managers. Technologies: LAMP/WAMP, Drupal, PHP, Javascript, Perl, MySQL, CRM, JQuery, CSS, HTML, XML, JSP, Java, J2EE, .Net, .ASP, C/C++, Ruby on Rails, Ajax, SCRUM, Agile, Linux, AIX, Solaris

Responsible for all G&A recruiting and Executive level hiring. Placed Corporate Counsel, Director of Sales, Sr. Manager National Advertising Sales, Marketing Manager, Operations Associates without external agencies. Provided leadership for a team of sales recruiters, technical recruiters and coordinators. Weekly reporting to executive team on all hiring metrics (Time to Fill, Cost per Hire, Turnover, Offer Acceptance, etc). Led employment branding projects and creation of online social media recruitment campaigns via Twitter and Facebook.

As Practice Leader, I developed and implemented operating models to build talent in emerging, and publicly traded companies. My expertise included executive recruitment, OD, compensation, and strategic change activities. I facilitated executive staff alignment and talent transition strategies. Responsible for managing the recruiting staff, providing oversight on all projects and working directly with clients and stakeholders to ensure client satisfaction. With more than ten years of human resources experience in a variety of industries including high-technology, life sciences, consumer products and retail.

Boutique retained search firm, I headed up their research department. In this role, I worked closely with venture capitalists in the Silicon Valley to place C-level candidates in early stage telecommunications start-ups.