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Portland, Or, Us

Head of Learning and Development function creating opportunities for each of the 4,500 Cambia employees to reach their highest potential across the employee lifecycle. Role scope includes:• Assessment of strategic L&D needs from a company and employee perspective.• Create onboarding, learning, talent & leadership development strategies in alignment with Cambia's vision, values and business objectives.• Deliver learning and development approaches across all levels, functions and roles. • Partner with other HR functions to integrate talent management with overall employee lifecycle, including recruiting, performance & succession, and total rewards. • Manage, coach and develop a team of 5 Sr. level consultants and provide guidance to 30+ functional learning partners.

Seattle, Washington, Us

Gumball Enterprises ("where making serious is fun") is a leadership development design and delivery company bringing hip products and services to three primary markets; entertainment, women and technology. We place expert coaches, facilitators, consultants and designers into organizations for short and long-term engagements. All of our experiential learning programs and leadership development products are customized to suit each customer.It is very exciting and lots of fun to partner with the innovative leadership team of a quickly growing company on achieving its ambitious business goals. As the head of the advisory board, I provide leadership direction on the company's business strategy, portfolio, investments, planning, as well as improvement opportunities for operations and performance. In my role as Chief People Officer I am steering the company's internal and contingent workforce based on a comprehensive talent management approach. My goal is to attract, hire, engage, and grow the best talent to delight our clients and boost Gumball's long-term business success.

Portland, Or, Us

Oversight of Employee Learning, Training and Onboarding functions, including management of three Sr. HR Learning consultants. • Own Organizational Effectiveness (OE) practice providing consulting services to HR Business Partners and Business Leaders in the areas of organizational design, leadership team effectiveness, talent/leadership development and change management.• Successfully led all change, training and communication during comprehensive HCM implementation project (Workday) in 2020. • Project/program lead for "Cambia Connected" (Future Workplace/Return-to-office) - oversight of program strategy, objectives and delivery in partnership with HR, Finance, Facilities, IT, Communications as well as Functional Leadership teams. Led COVID vaccination mandate effort across Cambia employee and contractor population.

Redmond, Washington, Us

I oversaw Microsoft’s Global Benefit and Mobility Operations, including health and wellness benefits, Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP), 401(K), severance and international assignment programs. One of the key accomplishments I achieved in partnership with my team of senior HR operations professionals, was the transition of our US Benefits Inquiry Management from a US contractor to an internal offshore delivery model. The new service centers in Mexico and India provide support for more than 50k US employees. The results exceeded our targets - efficiency, quality & satisfaction scores surpassed pre-transition levels after 4 months.

Bonn, Germany, De

I had the opportunity to design and implement a consolidated HR Shared organization across 20+ European counties at Deutsche Telekom in Europe. This new legal entity based in Romania and Greece supported 73k employees and generated $18+ million annual net savings as a result of labor arbitrage as well as process and technology standardization.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

This was my first role in which I built and managed a team. The scope included all portfolio, change and project management practices across HR functions. In partnership with my direct reports we established common standards for key initiatives resulting in better risk mitigation, stakeholder engagement and delivery (budget, timeline, scope, business value realization).

Bellevue, Wa, Us

In this role I was successful in driving different strategic HR initiatives, including the restructuring of the HR organization to better align people resources with strategic priorities and to meet future business needs, impacting more than 230 FTE. In addition, I partnered with the Head of Workforce Planning and Analytics to create a framework for internal & external workforce management. This “Labor Decision Support” tool set enabled HR Generalists & business leaders across all functions to make sustainable workforce decisions. We presented our findings at the 2009 Infohrm International Workforce Planning Summit and received highest feedback for our innovative & pragmatic approach.

Bonn, Germany, De

Here are some key initiatives I engaged in through multiple HR functions of Deutsche Telekom's Global Headquarters:• I led various project teams that created the first integrated global leadership development lifecycle and solutions for 23,000 executive-level managers. We built and successfully rolled-out policies, procedures, and standards for target setting, performance and competency assessment, individual development, internal mobility and succession planning.• As a Head of Project Office for the redesign of the global Human Resources Development (HRD) Center of Excellence organization, our team defined organizational roles, core processes, resources, and compensation structures of HRD units at all levels. We successfully aligned group-wide central and local HRD teams, streamlined interactions with HR Business Partners and Shared Services groups and realized 30% headcount efficiency gains.• I was appointed to the Chief People Officer for Deutsche Telekom as member of the HR Strategy Project Team reviewing and developing a 3-year global HR strategy for 250,000 employees as well as a project portfolio focusing on total labor cost, total workforce management, HR efficiency optimization, leadership excellence, change management and service culture.