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Seattle, Wa, Us

Chicago, Illinois, Us

Responsible for learning, leadership development, succession planning, talent management, culture, and experience across our 13,000 globally distributed associates. Our approach to talent development helps us future-proof capabilities while driving TU’s business performance.August 2024 - Present: Interim VP of Talent Acquisition

Seattle, Washington, Us

Built out a strategic people team responsible for enabling connections between Payscale’s talent and our strategic business goals/objectives. Responsible for Talent Acquisition, Performance & Talent Development, Leadership Development, Total Rewards, and Strategic HRBP's. Our integrated and holistic approach to talent is how we attracted, onboarded, developed, engaged, and retained employees. Key imperatives included but are not limited to: Drove transformational change as we doubled in size, went remote and experienced international expansion across Canada, UK, and Manila. Initiated and implemented critical organizational design/development. Expanded leadership capabilities and accountability. Acted as a strategic partner to the CEO and C-suite peers. Responsible for first teams executive coaching and leadership development. Designed and implemented talent reviews to identify top talent, low performers, promotions, succession, critical skills, and equity. Established more robust criteria for promotions particularly at the Director/VP level. Regularly presented and partnered with our two Equity Investors and the Board.

Seattle, Wa, Us

Responsible for creating leadership and learning experiences to transform how we approached evolving skills and mindsets, while pivoting our business to a platform company. Started as the VP of Learning for our Travel Partner Services organization and was quickly promoted to the VP of Learning for all Expedia Group responsible for 25,000+ employees globally. Built learning curriculum within the flow of everyday work using learn, practice, and apply approaches to create continuous learning journeys vs. one-time learning events. Designed, built, and delivered comprehensive learning journeys. Influenced the business towards a hybrid learning model where leadership development, onboarding, manager capabilities and learning design was centralized across the enterprise. Under this model, line of business learning leaders reported to me and dotted lined to their business units. The structure helped us reduce duplication and increase learning impact. Total direct reports were approx. 40 and indirectly 200. Responsible for driving critical business transformation, skills and capability development, leadership development and strategic initiatives. Also acted as an interim VP of HR for a senior leader on leave during a critical right-sizing activity and transformational organizational design initiative.

Walldorf, Bw, De

Responsible for the talent vision, thought leadership, and next generation future of work strategies for all of SAP’s 90,000 employees globally. Influenced the investment and execution of Strategic Talent (Workforce) Planning aligned to long-term business strategy. Drove the future of work strategy in partnership with corporate development to ensure our talent had the skills needed for today and for tomorrow. Worked across the enterprise to identify critical “human skills” to evolve future workplace mindsets. Provided data-driven thought leadership for talent programs, performance programs, learning and leadership development. Delivered a data-driven approach to learning driving metrics and business analysis to understand learner gaps and desires. Designed a unified learning platform, taking a learner centric front-end approach to delight our employees with intentional, targeted, and actionable learning tools, resources, and experiences. Built and executed facilitated learning programs, eLearning, curated learning programs, online workshops, and third-party resources. Leveraged strategic performance consulting to solve root-cause business problems prior to implementing any learning solution, program, or initiative to improve business impact. Challenged the status quo and approach to learning. Ensured high-impact KPIs are measured. Direct team was approx. 30 people with a matrix collaboration of approx. 200.

Bellevue, Wa, Us

Senior Director Global Leadership & Learning & Internal Communications/Experience Responsible for the talent development of approximately 6,000 employees globally. Asked to take over an immature existing learning function and create a holistic best of class approach to leadership development and learning. Fostered Concur’s culture during a time of massive growth by designing and executing a high-impact global onboarding program. Facilitated global induction program in partnership with COO & executive leaders.Developed and executed a comprehensive two-year VP leadership program that included assessments, coaching, online facilitated workshops, third-party learning tools and crowdsourcing. Strategically created scale by transitioning our learning culture from all facilitated learning to virtual & eLearning by leveraging third-party content, content curation, short, facilitated web sessions and robust articulate courses. Led a cross-functional enterprise implementation of a new Learning Management System. Owned the change management/employee experience when SAP acquired Concur. Senior Director Global Talent Acquisition &Strategic HR Business Partner Built a global recruiting organization from the ground up with responsibility for accelerating our global hiring efforts. Developed and implemented a recruiting capacity model in partnership with our finance organization to ensure we met the hiring needs across each BU and Region. Entered new markets (Hong Kong, Singapore, Germany, Amsterdam, Italy, France and more), while expanding our presences in Australia, UK, and US. Helped drive the execution of 8 key M&A events from due diligence to integration. Helped start and grow our Prague & Manila Centers of Excellence. Served as the Strategic HR Business Partner for Worldwide Sales, Marketing, Business Development and Global Services (Implementation, Client Services and Customer Training).

Boutique recruiting firm specializing in biotech and pharmaceutical hiring. Closed the largest deal ever for the agency by finding one of the most difficult nanotechnology experts in the USA.

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International technical recruiting firm. Multiple years as #1 Branch of the Year globally. 2000 Excellence in Management Award Winner based on production as a branch manager. 2000 President’s Club Paramount Award Winner for individual production. 1999 President’s Club Paramount Award Winner for individual production.

Seattle, Washington, Us

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