I am excited to announce...after more than six years of successfully building and leading the People and Culture discipline at Convene, I am relaunching my coaching and people strategy consultancy, Aubergine Partners. In 2013 I joined Convene on a six-month consulting project to create a People and Culture function. At the time, Convene had 38 employees. Six months quickly turned into a remarkable six-year journey where we built a formidable values-based culture, offered coaching across the organization, and earned multiple awards for employer of choice and “Best Workplace” as the company grew to over 600 employees. Aubergine Partners, which I founded in 2013 after 25 years as a human resources executive in the luxury hospitality industry, has evolved to focus on three of my passions: people & culture platform, executive and team coaching, and strategic alignment . We give our clients a unique competitive advantage through a process that aligns an organization's purpose and values with business strategy. We accomplished this at Convene with unprecedented results, including:• sustaining an employee turnover rate under 15% • an increase in employee satisfaction from 89% to 94% while the company doubled in size• a 70% rate of employee referrals for Convene job openings and career opportunities. To achieve results, Aubergine draws on a network of seasoned coaches and industry professionals from distinct cultures. We provide an unmatched expertise in multiple disciplines. Our guiding philosophy is that organizations need to invest early in values. Values drive behaviors which in turn create strong, purposeful cultures, leading to sustainable growth for the company and a stronger employee community. My commitment to supporting organizations to drive employee engagement and retention by building strong brands steeped in values will continue. Please stay in touch. I look forward to exploring potential intersections of my work with your priorities.

We are a workplace hospitality company committed to our values-based culture that recruits, trains, and develops (professionally and personally) the best talent in the industry. In a digital world, Convene provides the space, hospitality, and technology that brings people together. We are a catalyst to culture, connections, and collaboration We believe our future meeting spaces and workspaces won't just be seats that we go to, but places we are inspired to be in.

Convene affords me the opportunity to utilize over 25 years of international executive human resource experience and coaching to strategically develop the a human capital platform honoring the interests of all stakeholders. We generate excitement for a vision of excellence every day. Through our culture of teaching to learn, leading to follow and innovation, we are building a sustainable growth strategy steeped in empowerment and achieving results.