Ray Sobczak Email & Phone Number

Dallas, Tx, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Developing and implementing strategies that promote partner experiences and embrace diversity and inclusion, ensuring a comprehensive understanding of multiple perspectives• Serving as a subject matter expert and providing resources and training to learning professionals on the effective use of the LMS• Providing administrative support for scheduling, registrations, enrollment, and attendance of learning, as well as updates to the SharePoint site• Assisting in ongoing efficacy and analytics of programs and participants to shape existing and new programs, with a focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion• Coordinating the management of various L&D programs, including leadership development, team development, and skill workshops that promote diversity and inclusion• Ensuring that resources supporting L&D programs are up to date and aligned with diversity and inclusion initiatives• Monitoring social learning programs and actively engaging with the population to foster diversity and inclusion• Serving as the Learning Administrator for Learning and Development, overseeing training programs and content within the system• Troubleshooting scheduled activities and logistics to ensure smooth execution of diversity and inclusion programs• Collaborating with the central HR Service Center to develop user knowledge by establishing procedures, guidelines, and documentation related to diversity and inclusion initiatives• Generating and maintaining a variety of reports and queries using appropriate reporting tools, including reports related to diversity and inclusion efforts• Assisting in the development of reports to address ongoing needs and track progress in diversity and inclusion initiatives• Maintaining data integrity in systems by running queries and analyzing data, with emphasis on ensuring accurate representation of diversity and inclusion metrics.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Created L&D strategy roadmap with the Head of HR. • Led design, launch, and maintenance of DEI Modules 1 & 2. • Orchestrated global leadership 360 campaign impacting ~200 leaders with feedback from 1,200+ respondents across the business• Used consulting skills to understand business challenges and focus T&D resources.• Kept stakeholders informed of roadmap progress and negotiated changes.• Represented comprehensive Talent & Development agenda to stakeholders. • Executed L&D priorities through effective project and program management. • Led annual L&D Nominations process with Leadership Development and DEI leads. • Developed communication strategy for open-enrollment leadership learning. • Facilitated key training programs as needed, leveraging existing resources. • Leveraged existing T&D products before starting new designs. • Designed new products with adherence to core/customized rule and DEI principles. • Used data and insights from T&D products to inform design decisions.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Serving as subject matter expert to learning professionals in the business and provide them with resources and training on effective use of the system• Providing administrative support for scheduling, registrations, enrolment and attendance of learning as well as updates to SharePoint site• Assisting with ongoing efficacy and analytics of all programs/participants to shape existing & new programs • Coordinating the management of various L&D programs, including, but not limited to leadership development, team development and facilitation of future skill workshops• Ensuring resources that support L&D programs are current• Monitoring social learning L&D programs and proactively engaging with the population.• Serving as Learning Administrator for Learning and Development – managing training programs and content hosted in system• Troubleshooting scheduled activities and logistics• Working closely with the central HR Service Center to develop user knowledge through establishing procedures, guidelines and documentation• Monitoring learning tickets and work on resolutions or assign to SMEs as required• Producing, maintaining, and supporting a variety of reports or queries utilizing appropriate reporting tools• Assisting in development of reports for ongoing needs• Maintaining data integrity in systems by running queries and analyzing data

Boerne, Texas, Us

Boerne, Texas, Us

Boerne, Texas, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Coordinated the annual Basic Training Academy, an orientation program for ~200 Corporate/ Transactional attorneys across 10 U.S. offices• Synchronized the shift from live classroom to virtual online training programs for and during the week-long Summer program, consisting of 12 different segments and presented to ~250 summer associates• Organizing attorney training and development initiatives• Partnering with CLE compliance to coordinate and align with CLE process as needed for attorney training programming• Scheduling and communicating all aspects of scheduling training programming• Organizing curriculum materials and information to align with ever-changing curriculum architecture• Administering surveys and evaluation for training programs• Deploying attorney training and development programs as assigned• Partnering with members of LRD and Leadership where necessary to manage for the continuous improvement of Attorney Training and Development• Serving as training program and event support for all sessions as needed as the sole coordinator in Chicago• Working with, identifying, developing, leading and managing key external vendor relationships as necessary• Building and fostering working relationships with business partners across global firm

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Assisting with cross-practice procurement and sales strategies among clients• Specializing in Business Performance & Analysis while expediting efficient best practices throughout business• Preparing savings measurements and pricing compliance presentations in support of client engagements• Supporting the categorization of accounts payable and other commodity data for consulting engagement teams and SpendConnect modules• Fostering the creation of business case analysis by participating in a pre-defined process which includes reviewing, confirming supplier data, checking data for accuracy, data manipulation, categorization, and high-level analysis• Working closely with (train and manage) HBR’s offshore resources on completing savings measurement and pricing compliance presentations, accounts payable categorization, and other ad-hoc analysis• Conducting research as requested on an ad-hoc basis by those within the practice• Assisting with knowledge management and tracking of various industry information including monthly industry trends and aggregating vendor and other proprietary information

Chicago, Il, Us

• Analyzing current and past financial data and performance of company during time as private and publicly traded firm (ENVA listed NYSE)• Preparing reports and projections based on data analysis in order to evaluate current capital expenditures and depreciation then presenting the analysis to the Chief Officers of the company• Exploring investor relation opportunities while establishing and evaluating profit plans both foreign and domestic• Identifying trends in financial performance and providing recommendations for improvement through coordination with other members of the finance team• Providing financial models and forecasting for all ten products offered with a focus on Headway Capital, loans for SMB lending

Bachelor’S Degree, Public Affairs

Certificate, Negotiation And Influence