Robert Jackson Email & Phone Number

Sacramento, Ca, Us

- Provides targeted and practical solutions for the development of individuals, teams, and organizations that focuses on increasing productivity and performance.- Performs organizational maturity audits around HR practices, ensuring alignment between employment brand and employee experience, leading to sustainable business results. - Partners with leaders and teams to build an embedded learning culture that complements formal learning, with informal everyday learning.- Conducts leadership and team coaching sessions around all facets of the business; sales, performance & leadership.- Facilitation of workshops and soft skill courses to teams and organizations.

Redwood City, California, Us

- Led the year-long Design Management Academy for DPR. This included the initial analysis of the performance gap, the identification and management of 10 subject-matter experts, developing a curriculum and the deployment of the Academy to over 200 participants. - Directed additional design management efforts to create a consistent role description for Design Managers (a new role at DPR), led Design Manager network calls, facilitated the creation of a design manager playbook, and started a podcast “Beyond the Drawing Board”, which interviewed internal design experts and thought leaders throughout the architectural, engineering and construction industry.- Captained organizational change effort around reestablishing DPR’s “technical dominance” of our MEP disciplines, through the analysis, restructuring, development and education of DPR’s technical builders.- Launched DPR’s first “craft” employee engagement survey. The Survey effort involved a national team of 50 to successfully deploy a multilingual web-link survey to 3500 craft team members in the U.S. The survey campaign included branding, communications, and IT team coordination. Final survey participation percentages exceeded 75%.International Leadership- DPR International People Practices lead, responsible for the guidance of local DPR People Practices professionals (HR, L&D and Mobility) in Amsterdam, and APAC. Leadership and guidance involved adherence to company’s best practices, organization, and accountability of local office “People Strategies”.- Led DPR’s first “Cultural Best Practices” session for DPR International in Amsterdam in October of 2019. Organized DPR leadership, including our CEO and multiple management committee members to facilitate a multi-session four daylong conference for 70+ DPR International team members on all things DPR.

Redwood City, California, Us

- Co-launched an e-learning business unit through DPR’s subsidiary, vConstruct, a virtual design, administration and software services solutions company, to create customized e-learning content for DPR and other companies in the architectural, engineering and construction space. - Built and managed a team of DPR’s first two Instructional Designers and our first Learning Systems Coordinator, which doubled the size of our learning and development team in a year. - Researched, pitched and received buy-in to purchase a corporate membership with CEB’s HR Leadership Council for Midsized Companies. Through the leadership of this effort DPR’s various HR functions deepened alignment through project-sharing and collaboration opportunities. - Responsible for scaling up DPR’s internal coaching program by partnering with an external coaching firm, BetterUp, to lead a cohort of 20 high potential employees through their year-long coaching program. Program participants have rated themselves as seeing a 20-point increase in leadership readiness since starting the program. - Led an Human Resources functional team workshop of 15 of DPR’s top HR leaders across the talent management, learning and development, as well as the policy and benefits functions. The workshop was designed with the goal to optimize the employee experience through increased functional maturity and collaboration.

Redwood City, California, Us

- Spearheaded effort to bring “Challenger Sale” concepts to our healthcare core market team. This effort included education on concepts and a workshop to identify market differentiators and the creation of strategic commercial insights.- Revitalized companywide Critical Success Factor (CSF) campaign through implementing an analysis, corrective action plan, and realignment solution that resulted in a 40 percent increase in adherence to the CSF program for the Mid-Atlantic Business Unit.- Championed companywide storytelling and presentation best practices, through incorporating principles based on the book Slide:ology. Trained over 350 people over a one-year period, and workshop was deemed as one of the most impactful in company history.- Played a primary role in the cultural integration of Hardin Construction into DPR Construction after Hardin was acquired in April 2013. This acquisition included the integration of five offices and over 300 employees.

Redwood City, California, Us

- Launched DPR’s RosettaStone Language Program to over 100 employees, which facilitated greater job site communication and increased awareness of site safety expectations.- Continued management of DPR’s Current Best Practices Program, which on-boarded approximately 150 new hires annually through our orientation program of “All Things DPR.” - Actively partnered with East Coast Regional Leadership to identify learning needs for our five offices; Atlanta, GA, Morrisville, NC, West Palm Beach, FL, Richmond and Falls Church, VA.

Redwood City, California, Us

- Led the region’s Customer Satisfaction Survey, completing over 20 surveys with clients and key partners with the goal of continued enhancements to project performance.- Led the first restructuring of DPR’s Current Best Practices, resulting in a consistent approach and delivery of content, and the integration of a DPR Management Committee Member’s regular participation as primary facilitators.- Played a key role in the conversion process of the company’s HRIS system.

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