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With over 20 years of experience as a Leadership Coach and Organizational Development expert, I bring a wealth of insights gained from founding and scaling multiple startups. Through my CoreConnection service, I specialize in cultivating purpose-driven strategies that enhance organizational performance. My approach revolves around aligning Vision, nurturing strong Culture, and creating lasting Value – these pillars collectively form a robust foundation for unlocking your organization's full potential and achieving sustainable growth.I am deeply passionate about guiding individuals and teams to excel, offering expertise in coaching for peak performance, cultivating thriving teams and organizations, guiding change management initiatives, and implementing effective business improvement processes. My skill set encompasses crafting impactful organizational cultures, catalyzing mindset shifts, and cultivating dynamic leadership capabilities.My contributions extend to esteemed publications, where I've authored works such as "Modern Mentoring: Build a Modern Mentoring Culture in Your Organization." Additionally, I hold certifications to administer and interpret assessments like The Big Five, Benchmarks, Building Healthy Teams, and Emergenetics.Whether you're looking to amplify leadership skills or enhance organizational effectiveness, I provide tailored coaching and development solutions. Let's connect and explore how CoreConnection can empower your journey to success.

Mentor Spaces is a virtual mentorship company for early and mid-career Black and Latinx professionals that helps companies scale their diversity and inclusion efforts while advancing the careers of underrepresented minorities.I leverage my mentoring and organizational development expertise in leading our customer success team.

Moving into the Chief Strategist role, I provide innovative thought leadership to design and deliver client-based performance management interventions. ~ Engage clients through custom solutions to create and implement leadership cultures.~ Guide strategic planning and executive briefings, sparking client innovation by designing customer centered solutions for enhanced workplace learning.

Launching the company as Triple Creek in 1995, we set out to make a difference by helping people learn and develop at work through goal-focused learning collaborationAs a pioneer of e-mentoring, I led the team that introduced the first commercially available web-based mentoring process. River software blended formal and informal learning with social learning and workplace mentoring for an interactive, relational, and measurable process.Our work in collaborative learning garnered industry praise as well awards. For example, the blended learning solution for new hire training that we developed for EMC Corporation earned the silver award for the 2014 Brandon Hall Group Excellence awards program.In addition to formulating custom courses for Effective Leadership Principles, Dynamic Management, Building Healthy Teams, and Performance Feedback, I guided clients through the process to diagnose performance problems and to transform their deployment of behavioral selling, knowledge management, talent development, business growth, and other critical competencies.

Earlier in my career, I designed and implemented culturally relevant training and development programs for 300 leaders in community-based organizations across North America and South America.For example, I led start-up and turn-around engagements for 3 non-profits and facilitated programs for high-potential and volunteer leadership development.