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Chicago, Illinois, Us

San Francisco, California, Us

Led a team of instructional designers to create and execute e-learning for both product-driven and role-based learning at scale for a global partner audience. *Learning Enablement: Enhanced implementation readiness and sales readiness for a variety of products and roles through e-learning curriculum and course development for over 75k learners across 6k partner firms to drive customer success and workforce performance.*Program Leadership: Led up to 20 cross-functional projects per quarter using an Agile approach. Collaborated with leadership, stakeholders and other training teams to drive learning strategy based on business objectives and communicate status of training deliverables.*Instructional Design: Set learning strategy and implemented a curriculum first approach to drive meaningful content design. Created quality rubric to guide the development of impactful and relevant training solutions that leveraged key learning assets, scenarios and experiential learning.*People Enablement: Managed onboarding and development programs. Drove employee engagement and performance through regular feedback, coaching cycles and quarterly reviews.

Hoboken, Nj, Us

Managed a team of 8 full-time and 5-10 contract learning designers to develop e-learning courses with faculty at colleges and universities across the country using ADDIE inspired design processes.*Process Optimization: Implemented design thinking methodologies to iterate on course development; significant improvement of internal process resulted in 20% YoY cost reduction.*Team Development: Set success metrics and provided coaching and professional development, driving client NPS of 85 alongside colleague engagement scores 20% higher than company average.*Project Management: Set internal strategy, led communications, and managed scope and performance; supported two fee-for-service projects worth $4.2M in revenue (a 50% increased workload delivered with only a 30% FTE increase.)

Chicago, Il, Us

Created and implemented a strategic vision to educate high school students for college achieving a top-tier Level 1 rating in Chicago Public Schools.*Talent Management: Recruited and retained 40 full-time employees for a challenging school context through mission alignment, performance management, and a supportive school culture.*Leadership Development: Trained, coached, and evaluated school leadership team to create school-wide learning strategy for staff development.*Change Management: Successfully reorganized school structure to allocate $2.3M for staffing and operational needs after a 20% budget decrease during a period of fiscal instability in the district.*Diversity, Equity & Inclusion: Created and facilitated professional development sessions to address bias and increase cultural competency.

Chicago, Il, Us

Fostered a positive and supportive school climate and effectively managed day-to-day school operations and logistics.

Chicago, Il, Us

Led a team of 18 humanities teachers to develop curriculum and improve school-wide reading and writing performance.

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Il, Us

Master’S Degree, Educational Leadership And Administration, General

Master’S Degree, Teaching And Learning

Bachelor’S Degree, English Language And Literature, General