Sonya Kaleel, M.S. Email & Phone Number

Austin, TX, US

The Inclusion Practice is a woman-owned consulting firm focused on solutions that create and sustain inclusive organizations. We offer tailored coaching, advisory, and learning services that give senior leaders and changemakers the confidence and tools to face complex challenges with compassion and courage. Our proven track record demonstrates our.

Evanston, IL, US

Serve as industry mentor and coach for graduate students in the Leading Equity & Inclusion in Organizations certificate (LEIOC) masters program. LEIOC is designed to build a community of professionals committed to fostering consciousness around culture, race, ethnicity, biological sex, gender identity/expression, sexual identity, social class, ability.

Austin, Texas, US

The Holdsworth Center is an education leadership development center focused on improving the quality of public schools for Texas students. As a part-time leadership coach / facilitator, I support campus leadership teams in an immersive action learning program designed to transform Texas public schools. * Facilitate learning programs that cultivate a.

• Facilitate engaging and thought-provoking hands on engagements as a seasoned Coach, Facilitator and Inclusion Practitioner. Focus on leadership development, diversity and inclusion, cultural humility, effective.
• Design learning engagements that incorporate blended models such as: guided learning experiences, micro-courses, learning labs, self-directed models, and instructor-led workshops for face-to-face or virtual delivery.

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

• Led a cross-functional learning design and delivery team that improved resource capacity of 25 learning solutions by streamlining design workflow, content chunking and strengthening sales resources.
• Scaled a suite of cultural literacy programs delivered in over 50 countries that assist individuals, teams and organizations achieve effective communications and sustainable relationships when working in multicultural.
• Authored and produced a series of facilitator guides to support 100+ senior consultants deliver global learning programs appropriate for any cultural framework and flexible to meet various learning styles.
• Designed strategic learning solutions to meet organizations' needs for global consistency, local customization and high quality delivery across geographies.
• Co-authored and co-presented with Rosetta Stone on the topic of “Global Mobility Trends and Strategies for Success” at the People in Energy Conference in November 2014

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

• Managed a practice group that provides global mobility and HR managers with thought leadership, learning solutions and on-demand tools to support the international expatriate assignment lifecycle.
• Redesigned and launched a benchmark training workshop that provided personalized coaching to 15,000 international assignees and their families to effectively work and live in new culture.
• Led a senior consultant team in Saudi Arabia to conduct in-depth candidate assessments of 300 Saudi Aramco employees to identify high potentials for international assignments and global leadership roles.
• Designed a learning and development resource to provide receiving managers of expatriates and repatriates with knowledge and strategies to leverage their new team members.
• Led the certification training for Employee Relocation Council’s (ERC) Global Mobility Specialist (GMS) and Strategic Talent Mobility (GMS-T) in 2013 and 2014.
• Introduced a quality assessment process to re-certify senior consultants to ensure ongoing high quality delivery across geographies for Fortune 500 companies.

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

• Streamlined program content and standardized delivery for workshops that provide business professionals with critical foundations for global mindset and cross-cultural intelligence.
• Facilitated the People Manager Workshop series for 200 mid-level and senior managers at eBay, Inc. throughout China, Germany and USA.
• Designed train-the-trainer initiatives that reached 100 senior facilitators and a network of 4,000 country specialists located worldwide.
• Facilitated strategic intercultural programs across the USA, Europe, Asia and Middle East.

Raleigh, North Carolina, US

• Represented Aperian Global in the Middle East and North Africa facilitating intercultural programs while based in Cairo, Egypt.
• Conducted an extensive research effort including interviews with over 100 business professionals to write a “doing business in” report for Egypt, Morocco, Iraq, Romania, Qatar and UAE that is published in a web-based.

• Managed the hiring and team development for this start up business.
• Designed, developed and delivered technical and soft skills content and managed a training staff to ensure effective delivery.
• Directed the training deployment for new franchise owners and technical services staff.

• Designed and delivered customized end-user training and adoption programs for the Wrigley Company reaching 3,000 employees worldwide through live, interactive eLearning courses on how to use web-based collaboration.
• Coached experienced training instructors on how to effectively deliver learning programs in a synchronous online environment.
• Authored and packaged a comprehensive overview of a Global Conferencing Service education package that reached an audience of 500 sales representatives and thousands of customers worldwide.

Basking Ridge, NJ, US

• Sept 1998 - June 2000: Manager, Program Marketing
• Spearheaded efforts to develop the first standardized service across four MCI call centers; managed a cross-functional team to implement a strategic offering that matches customers with a consultant.
• Conceived and orchestrated the Starbucks and MCI "Virtual Coffee Break," a nationwide B2B event reaching 1,300 people in one day through an interactive webinar. Sep 1992 - Jan 1995: Field Marketing
• Developed and conducted training programs to effectively position and sell technology applications that contributed to a 100-person sales office reach over 100% quota for two consecutive years.
• Set up a knowledge resource library to streamline the flow of information and improve access for sales teams.
• Received awards for outstanding contributions for developing marketing and sales education programsSept 1990 - Aug 1992: Product Marketing

Master Of Science - Ms, Learning And Organizational Change

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Communications