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Orem, UT, US

Foster City, California, US

• SUMMARY: Acted as transformational change agent empowering Visa to unlock improved employee engagement and productivity through human-centered change management approaches to ensure adoption of the key strategic.
• Obtained 90%+ sustainable adoption rate, 50% higher than average (Viva Engage)
• Drove 40% increase in leader buy-in, achieved 80% engagement rate for PBP enablement sessions, 40% above avg. (Workday)
• Unlocked 95% adoption for MS Copilot in Corporate IT, activated consistent executive sponsor engagement (Gen AI for CIT)
• Secured 80% awareness score for employees feeling informed and supported to adopt the tool, 31% above avg. (Avature)
• 3 months straight of consistently having the highest clicked enablement materials on Ask People Team (Workforce Planning)

Foster City, California, US

Draper, Utah, US

• SUMMARY: Led culture change initiatives at over 20 client companies around improving employee wellbeing. Drove leadership engagement and increased adoption of mental health products and services across the entire book.
• Improved employee adoption rate by 9.4% through quarterly communication campaigns (newsletters, advertisements, text campaigns) for all clients.
• Increased the number of executive leaders engaged with our platform by 24% through using storytelling about our services.
• Drove improved client renewal rate from 87% to 94% leveraging best practices for stakeholder partnership and engagement.
• Created the Blunovus partnership kickoff framework, increasing value realization by 3 months in the customer journey.

Lehi, Utah, US

• SUMMARY: Became the organizational change catalyst and psychological safety evangelist at our company to help bring about meaningful culture change around the company adopting new behaviors to improve the overall.
• Designed and led multiple company-wide trainings on improving psychological safety within teams which resulted in saving the company $54K in prevented turnover costs.
• Created and executed enterprise wellness week communications campaign which garnered a 92% employee satisfaction score.
• Communications lead for sunsetting cell phone allowance policy, achieved buy-in of entire c-suite and deployed enterprise communication campaign.

Lehi, Utah, US

I worked directly with two HR Business Partner in supporting the Technology and Customer Experience departments with all HR initiatives, primarily focusing on Workday support, configuration and optimization in partnership with the HRIS team. I regularly performed data analytics for these departments.

Lehi, Utah, US

Interned for an HR Business Partner who supports the customer experience department. Helped with UAT testing for the Workday implementation around core HCM functionalities. I assisted with HR reporting, worked on projects encompassing compliance and employee relations, and shadowed employee relations situations.

Orem, UT, US

• SUMMARY: Influenced senior leadership to start an enterprise employee engagement program to ensure that employees were fulfilled in their careers and driving impactful results for the university. IMPACT AND RESULTS
• Published research article on employee engagement which led to the formation of UVU’s first employee engagement program.
• Led a department-wide transformation initiative for reimagining the onboarding experience for 1st generation students.

Orem, UT, US

Innovated the 5 Dysfunctions of a Team training program for a higher education audience.Evaluated and recorded exit interview forms for retention planning.

Orem, UT, US

Developed First Generation Mentoring Program for over 200 First Generation Students. Worked with two staff committees in fine tuning the Student Onboarding Process for UVUCreated and implemented a revised communication strategy for the Financial Aid, Admissions, Scholarship and Registrars offices which affected over 20 technical documents regarding student.

M.S. Organizational Change Leadership, Organizational Transformation And Product Value Realization

Executive Certificate, Systems Thinking

B.S. Applied Communication, Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General

Certificate, Instructional Design

Agile 101 Course