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Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

ALA Consulting Group is a professional services firm specializing in customer, employee and brand experience. We are a trusted adviser to our client partners at every step of the experience journey and across all major industries. We maximize the value we deliver by marrying our unparalleled experience with a comprehensive network of collaborative Subject Matter Experts. ALA was founded to be an alternative to the "have hammer, must be nail" consultancies that permeate the industry. We know that each company, program and circumstance is unique, and adapt our approach and support to those specific needs. ​At it's core, ALA enables our client partners to win by optimizing every aspect of Ask, Listen, Act.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Axiom Consulting Partners works side-by-side with leaders to deliver pragmatic solutions that drive results. Our services help clients clarify strategy, focus on the highest priority sources of value and align their capabilities, processes and people to deliver sustainable, profitable growth. We always look at a client’s challenges through the lenses of business strategy, organization design and talent management – it’s why they choose us over firms that operate in just one of these disciplines.

Greater Chicago Area

Senior Partner at Knightsbridge Human Capital Solutions, North America's fastest growing and largest integrated Human Capital Consulting Company. Knightsbridge is an award winning solutions firm that is passionate about creating practical and powerful solutions that help our clients win. We integrate the expertise of finding, developing, and optimizing an organization’s people. This allows our clients to maximize their investments in people and deliver distinctive, lasting and substantial improvements in business outcomes.

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

SVP Talent Management for Right Management and global head of ManpowerGroup Solutions’ Strategic Workforce Consulting practice. Led development, education and deployment of the global practice to include all strategic planning, sales, delivery, solutions design and development.Key Areas of Expertise ♦ Employee Engagement ♦ Customer Engagement♦ Strategy♦ Talent Management♦ Market Research♦ Brand Loyalty♦ Change Management♦ Organization Effectiveness♦ Team Development & Leadership♦ Social Research & Consulting♦ Segmentation♦ Culture Change

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

Responsible for driving client impact, practice development and selling and executing complex consulting solutions around employee and customer engagement, targeted selection, and leader development. As Gallup’s highest-ranked and most decorated consultant, I contributed to client and Gallup successes over two decades through several key and simultaneously occurring roles and responsibilities:ACCOUNT LEADERSHIP - Directed consulting teams on complex, often unprecedented, multi-product, multi-year engagements with superior internal team and client engagement scores.STRATEGIC ADVISOR - Advised dozens of C-level Fortune 500 Executives on the design, deployment and integration of comprehensive strategies around customer, employee, brand and research.ACCOUNT GROWTH & ACQUISITION - Lead pursuit teams in the acquisition of over $100 million in new contracts spanning numerous industries, practice categories and geographies. SPOKESPERSON - Advised internally and externally as the go-to expert on Gallup’s industry-leading banking program, ensuring best practices in the way banking engagements are pursued, designed and deployed.INNOVATOR – Helped lead the development of Gallup’s Employee Engagement and Customer Engagement practices.MENTOR/TEACHER - Served in multiple roles in the on-boarding, development and optimization of Gallup’s personnel including playing a lead role in Gallup’s Mentorship, Emerging Leader and Consociate programs.

Greater Chicago Area

Architected and led multi-million dollar research and measurement programs to drive impact and change in client organizations. Programs included intergration of one or more of culture change, employee engagement, customer engagement, talent acquisition, and product implementation. Responsible for all aspects of project design, including project architecture, sample design, questionnaire design. Led teams of professionals in the program execution and analysis. Worked directly with client executives consulting on their understanding and implementing results to drive change.Earlier career with Gallup includes positions of steadily increasing responsibility and accomplishment: Vice President, Research Director, Analyst and Call Center Supervisor.

Asian Studies Minor, Asian Studies

Activities and Societies: Basketball Club

Ma, Managment, 3.75

Activities and Societies: Daily Nebraskan Newspaper, Sigma Iota Epsilon

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Business Administration And Management, General, 3.65

Activities and Societies: Daily Nebraskan