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San Francisco, Ca, Us

San Francisco Bay Area

GBD Talent helps early & mid-stage high-growth companies scale quickly and thoughtfully. Summary: Resident L&D expert for designing, building, facilitating, and advising for the "Training" arm of the business. Have guided and up-leveled the teams' build, execution, and improvement processes for trainings. Highlights: * Directed the design, organization, creation of content, and was part of the facilitating team for new trainings, including: -> "Influencing with Data", teaching HR Director-level and above participants advanced spreadsheet and presentation skills to influence leadership effectively. NPS score of 50 (Excellent). -> "Sourcing Accelerator", teaching sourcers skills in finding and messaging candidates quickly and creatively. NPS score range from 28 (Favorable) to 60 (Excellent) through multiple iterations. -> 3-part training series for the Lucid Motors recruiting team on effectively partnering with the business, sourcing efficiency, and closing. * Facilitated and made iterative improvements to an existing Hiring Manager training geared towards teaching new hiring managers the skills to scope roles, write JDs, run debriefs, and more. Average NPS of 43. * Provided coaching and advising on other trainings as needed to improve flow, increase engagement, and the digestibility of information.

Got accepted into Cohort 3 of a 12-week climate career accelerator. Learning from climate solutions experts from all sectors of the economy.

Magnetic Speaking is a top public speaking training company in the SF Bay Area, offering all-day bootcamps, weekly classes, and 1:1 coaching to corporate professionals.Summary: Founder asked me to help run the company after I'd been a trainer for 2 years. Considered it like a hands-on MBA, while still maintaining my role as a trainer and coach. Highlights: * Developed a hiring, onboarding, and training process from scratch, along with a trainer competency framework and ongoing trainer resources. * Planned and executed on about 80 deliverables (including process changes) to get the business accredited through a rigorous process by IACET. * Led the rebuild of the company website including brand kit, logos, icons, illustrations, and copy. 4 month project, coordinating with web designer, illustrator, copy editor, and photographer. * Created a set of 16 weekly classes with the founder to help generate consistent bootcamp sign-ups. * Wrote promotional emails, articles, and recorded Youtube podcasts on public speaking topics. * Partnered with the founder to create a more rigorous pay-scale for new trainers, and provided counsel on business decisions in general. * Managed an Operations Specialist who was in charge of the CRM, customer support, admin, and training ops.

San Francisco, Ca

* Ran full-day bootcamps open to the public focused on a certain area (delivery, storytelling, impromptu, presentation creation, facilitation) with groups of ~12. NPS score of 92 (Elite). * Ran full-day and custom trainings for companies like Zendesk, Gap, Zscaler, and Ubisoft. * Ran 1-hour weekly public classes on specific public speaking issues, with consistent conversion of clients towards larger bootcamps. * Conducted 1:1 coaching sessions with clients ranging from CEOs and founders to entry-level professionals in a wide range of fields (e.g. Engineering, VC analysts, AI, Ecological restoration) Focused on presentations, pitches, TEDx talks, body language, storytelling, and more.

San Francisco

Humans face the interesting challenge of wanting individual growth and self-actualization, yet needing a sense of belonging and community. We want to socialize and connect yet express ourselves individually. There’s no reason the two can’t be together.Growth Circle is an exploration in bridging these different needs. Here, we facilitate experiences that help us learn and practice life skills while challenging us out of our comfort zones. We strive for a community of learners that value self-awareness, curiosity and a supportive environment. * Created 2-hour experiential workshops with tailored exercises, group processes, and sharing around topics such as: Learning to Support Others, Facing Doubt, Self-Acceptance, The Art of Boundaries, and more. Open to the public and ran some at organizations. * Created an all-day retreat, "Creating Your Healthiest Relationship", with the goal of creating a healthy relationship with oneself. Involved talks, exercises, sharing, and meditations that I created to facilitate healing. Ran at my house!

San Francisco Bay Area

As a coach, I helped take people from busy and stressed, to productive and relaxed. I created a 3-month online course called "Reclaim Your Focus", incorporating mindfulness, minimalism, and habit design to help participants gain a sense of relaxed productivity.

Globe

Packed a bag and traveled/lived in Asia, Europe, and the U.S. Wanted to spend a lot of time away from everything and everyone I knew to see what would happen. Included a lot of independent study of things like meditation and Buddhist psychology.

San Francisco Bay Area

Directed employee onboarding experience for 150+ acquired employees joining Adobe offices. Involved facilities and network shutdown, infrastructure migration and employee desktop configuration. Resulted in high user satisfaction and no disruption in services. Managed the migration of 80+ systems of target company’s data center to Adobe headquarters. Facilitated approach around virtualization, storage and level of service with balanced approach to timeline and cost. Produced cost savings and management effectiveness for product teams. Managed source code migrations of several target companies by driving analysis of development model, design of new architecture, migration of tools and training for end users on new system. Facilitated sharing of best practices between product teams and drove consistency.

Created user experience tests to determine product-market fit and product usability. Designed new product mock-ups and presented findings to product teams, based on user testing.

Built a tool for rapid cost estimation on incoming projects by partnering with managers across IT and identifying key drivers and a framework for consistent estimation of work effort and expenses. Adopted for all incoming projects and improved estimates in early phases. Standardized the various development lifecycles used across IT by leading a cross-functional team and determining the essential set of deliverables for each methodology (Waterfall/Agile). Resulted in consistent project delivery and knowledge sharing of tools/processes across groups. Developed and maintained team’s internal website by creating, organizing and centralizing information on tools and processes. Used by program and project managers across IT.

Revamped user interface and communicated proposals on new functionality and features. Developed and delivered informational webinars for audiences of 100+ people on e-mail finding, resume search and candidate research to generate leads, product interest and sales. Constructed test cases through data analysis for product quality and new feature requests. Analyzed qualitative and quantitative data from high-profile customers to showcase experiences and ROI in case studies. Used in trade shows, press releases and company website.

Collaborated with all IT infrastructure managers to gather data on services and processes. Established efficient processes between departments for reduced delays and uncertainty in operations: on-boarding of employees, materials provisioning and help desk escalation. Presented benefits to top management to promote project interest and IT investment.