Shannon Walsh Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, California, United States

BCG is a leading global management consulting firm that partners with leaders in business and society to tackle their most important challenges and capture their greatest opportunities. Diverse, global teams bring deep industry and functional expertise and a range of perspectives to tackling clients' challenges with the goal of helping them thrive and enabling them to make the world a better place.In 2022, BCG established a Climate & Sustainability (C&S) virtual office system, and I was one of the first members of its dedicated Talent Management team for North America. As primary Talent Management contact for C&S in the 13 offices of the West, Southeast, and Southwest systems, I built strong individual relationships with client-facing staff at all levels and local office staffing teams, ensuring compliance with regional and global staffing policies while engendering trust◇ Defined and established C&S model, including talent management framework, staffing and project team assembly, and standards of operation with local staffing colleagues and consulting staff; developed materials and implemented communication plans to inform all relevant stakeholder groups◇ Supervised professional development for a roster of 65 consulting staff across 3 career steps of traditional-track consultants in 13 offices, as well as all Expert Career Track consultants, providing support in project selection, career navigation, performance management, L&D, internal mobility, and other HR needs◇ Provided end-to-end project team staffing support for C&S projects with clients across industries, optimizing team design and deployment of consulting staff to achieve business priorities while supporting individual employees’ professional and personal objectives, coaching staff throughout the employment lifecycle◇ Maintained a view of the project pipeline at a macro and micro level, leveraging deep awareness of currently available skills, cases, leads/proposals, and office/firm goals

Los Angeles, California

The North America Staffing & Mobility team acts as a conduit between global functional leadership and local Staffing & Mobility teams, communicating policies and priorities and ensuring compliance, as well as taking on ad hoc regional and global priority initiatives. My role was focused on support of Talent Management and Staffing Operations teams, driving development and affiliation for 100+ local staffing team members to provide transparency and visibility on regional guidance, identify/communicate regional best practices, and ensure a consistently high-quality experience.◇ Headed the development and rollout of standardized onboarding curricula for Talent Managers and Staffing Operations team members, including monthly town hall meetings; delivered onboarding support for 75 new staff◇ Supported onboarding, affiliation, and learning and development of the Talent Manager cohort in North America, establishing core curriculum at the regional level and rolling out a playbook for local offices for 125-150 new hires◇ Led emergency COVID-19 remote work response team to review immigration and tax risks for employees seeking to work outside the country, ensuring compliance with all applicable statutes worldwide for 500+ employees◇ Acted as regional liaison between local staffers and the global development team for the internal Staffing & More (SAM) talent management platform, gathering and synthesizing feedback on functionality for enhancements◇ Created materials for SAM training, creating and hosting video training targeted at users with different use cases, serving all non-consulting Talent Managers at the regional level; reported to Sr. Director of NA Staffing & Mobility◇ Designed, developed, implemented, and improved complex processes impacting 100s of people, such as a centralizing process for finding project staffing assignments for intern classes of 900+

New York, New York, United States

As part of the New York Talent Management team reporting to the office Business Management Director, I was responsible for the deployment and development of a roster of junior consulting staff of up to 220+, as well as the project team selection process and project pipeline management coordinating with Talent Management teams and consulting staff across the Northeast. ◇ Supervised professional development for a roster of up to 220+ consulting staff across 2 career steps, providing support in project selection, career navigation, performance management, L&D, internal mobility, and other HR needs◇ Oversaw junior project team selection process working with other Northeast Talent Managers and project team leadership to identify best fits from available staff, weighing business objectives like team balance and staff utilization, identifying patterns to drive strategies and support individuals◇ Engaged in all Career Development Committee meetings for relevant cohorts, reviewing meeting inputs/outputs, providing a market view of performance, and calibrating advisors to ensure best practice and consistent decisions◇ Developed and expanded the Talent Management team from 3 to 8, working to scale operations; delivered extensive training and coaching, onboarding, mentoring, and integrating new hires into the team; taught new technical and non-technical skills through 1:1 and group training, such as in-house software use and influencing without authority◇ Collaborated with Northeast system leadership to set and execute the mobility strategy, weighing needs and capacity, leading quarterly transfer committee meetings, and providing recommendations and plans for 25+ requests quarterly◇ Awarded BCG’s BEST Award in 2016 for outstanding contributions from the Business Services Team

New York, New York, United States

As part of the New York Recruiting Team, I supported undergraduate and non-MBA Masters on-campus recruiting efforts for major regional priority campuses in the Northeast and local New York universities. ◇ Managed large-scale on-campus recruiting programs for full-time and internship opportunities, including marketing events, interview prep workshops, candidate selection, and on-campus first-round interview days, reviewing 1k+ applicants per cycle◇ Led a team of 2, including a Recruitment Assistant and Recruitment Associate, reporting to the Recruiting Manager◇ Orchestrated high-touch interview, offer, and conversion process in the NY office for 100+ candidates per year, including interview coordination, feedback collection, offer decision summits, and candidate welcome weekends◇ Owned the post-offer conversion process for up to 50 offerees per cycle, with 2 cycles per year◇ Spearheaded the Northeast offices' intern staffing and evaluation process, identifying teams/managers to provide appropriate roles on active projects, matching interns to roles based on experience and interest◇ Awarded BCG’s BEST Award in 2012 for outstanding contributions from the Business Services Team

New York, New York, United States

AllianceBernstein (AB) is a global investment management firm that provides research and investment services to institutional, high-net-worth, and retail investors. AB is known for its research innovation and excellence, and generates insights to help clients make better investment decisions.As Campus Recruiting Intern, I managed full-cycle recruitment efforts for the Technology Associate Program (TAP), a rotational training program for students interested in IT careers with AllianceBernstein.◇ Planned and executed on-campus marketing events for students in target majors across 5 universities◇ Coordinated candidate review and selection process with screening team composed of IT leadership◇ Managed interview scheduling process for in-office interview days

The Career Development Office (CDO) is a resource for Pomona students, providing career advice and resume help, as well as putting on events with alumni and employers to aid students in finding employment. In addition to general office assistance, I worked in two more specialized functions.My main function was editor of the CDO's weekly newsletter. I was responsible for compiling, proofreading, and editing submissions and writing brief descriptions of highlighted events.I also served as Special Events Assistant, providing planning and event support for Career Week and Career Fair, the two largest events put on by the CDO each year. My responsibilities in this capacity included helping to find and choose alumni to speak on panels, evaluating and editing student feedback from the events, and working as event support staff.

New York, New York, United States

For three summers, I worked as an intern in Human Resources at Ernst & Young. Throughout my internships, I would frequently be responsible for developing content for internal and external communications, and analyzing and summarizing internal employee attitude survey data for presentation to senior management.During my first summer, I drafted and edited position descriptions as part of a firm-wide compensation restructuring, assisted with organizational development events, and aided with phone interviews for a leadership excellence program.For the subsequent two summers, my main duties were in campus recruiting. I was part of a focus group of interns chosen to edit and provide feedback on content for E&Y's sponsored page on Facebook, the first one created by a professional services firm. I worked directly with my superiors and the advertising agency responsible for the creation and maintenance of the page, and had primary responsibility for monitoring questions and comments on the page, responding to them directly, and finding recruiters and other employees to respond to them when appropriate.During those two summers, I also provided planning and event support for the firm's International Intern Leadership Conference in Orlando, an event with over 1,000 attendees from around the world and all levels of the firm. Our goal was to inform the interns of the Facebook page and increase membership and activity.