I work with businesses offering various kinds of organizational development support beginning with basics, including - workflow analysis, skills and gap analysis, training and implementation support, as well as industry research. From documenting and creating protocols for operations and processes, to writing educational and marketing materials that describe a business to newcomers and strategic partners, I serve clients on many levels. The newest tools in my bag are Cultural Transformation Tools. With my certification from the Barrett Values Center I've been designing and delivering values exercises, as well as executing the entire Barrett Values assessment process doing what I love best - helping clients utilize all the resources they already have by actively managing and perfecting their culture.

“Culture eats strategy for breakfast” - attributed to Peter Drucker…As a Cultural Transformation Tools (CTT) Certified Consultant, I employ tools and resources from Barrett Values Center that enable my clients to achieve transformation in their leadership roles and corporate cultures. The CTT assessment tools provide a road map for a leader's personal development or a business’s cultural transformation.Values determine beliefs and behaviors, and beliefs and behaviors shape culture. Identifying the values operating in your organization gives you the keys to culture. With these keys I can assist you with identifying what behaviors to support and encourage, and which to challenge and change. Bringing behaviors and beliefs into alignment with values transforms your culture, and enables the business to reach its highest potential performance. How does this work? Identifying the deepest values in your business gives you mile-markers for making strategic decisions that keep you on course, in alignment with those values. When moving in line with your deepest values your business can reach high performance by discovering innovations and unexpected opportunities and by avoiding costly course-corrections and delays. Furthermore, tapping into the values of your existing culture and the values of your employees and inviting those values into the business arena, you unleash creativity and breakout innovation. The more engaged your employees, the more productive your workplace.The Barrett values assessment tools have been used to measure the values of over 6,000 organizations and 3,000 leaders in 90 countries across the globe.The good news is that when you measure your culture, you can manage it; which means not only addressing problem areas, but most importantly, harnessing the power of the potential you already have in house!

At Franchise Innovation Group I'm a part of a team that helps businesses determine whether their concept is viable for franchising by contributing to the initial feasibility study generated for prospects. For clients whose concepts move into the franchising stage, I'm a contract provided to the creative team. I work to create high quality training materials, as well as collateral that tells the story of the business so potential franchisers will be ready to join to team.

During this contract opportunity at eTHIN I jumpstarted awareness-raising and sales efforts via cold-calling and partnering with existing contacts. I also analysed critical metrics to enable the organization to determine go-forward strategies.

With O'Donnell and Associates I contracted to use my knowledge gained in the publishing industry to provide market research, competitive analysis for related businesses.

During my time at Elsevier I redeveloped the overall sales and product positioning strategy for the Learning Management platform that delivered the first-generation e-Learning product. Before long I was recruited to manage Client Services as well.I secured a promotion to Product Development and had the opportunity to bring new product to a new market from concept to launch. As part of the process, I gathered an Advisory Panel from the marketplace to garner input for crucial features and to ensure uptake of the product following launch. During this time I also successfully coordinated cross-functional teams pulling together to get product to market. My next adventure was securing an opportunity to manage an existing product line in a difficult and mission critical field. Here I developed a timeline and road-map for product improvement and delivery which was accepted by C-level.After that approval I initiated implementation for content development and sales training and education that included stakeholders from C-level to first level employees facilitating crucial alignment among internal team members.

2005 (six-months)Consultant to Learning and Organization Development (LOD)Consulted with Covenant Health System on a contract assignment with the Learning and Organizational Development Department to improve the health system's utilization of their E-Learning System.Initiated extensive interviews with all learning leadership in each facility.Facilitated meetings of these leaders and all stakeholders within LOD staff and leadership. Formulated and delivered a go-forward plan to the Covenant system Human Resources Director and CEO which was accepted.Independent Corporate Training 2002 to 2005 Provided a diverse range of specialized corporate training on an independent and contract basis for several different corporations including Eastman Chemical Company, and Milliken & Company.Sales trainingOrganizational change trainingPresentation skills training

Won numerous district/regional sales awards for market share growth and goal attainment with SmithKline Beecham; selling antibiotics, diabetes, and anti-inflammatory medications to the orthopedic, internal medicine, and pediatric markets.(1997 - 1999)

- Increased growth of the congregation through extensive relationship building, partnerships and outreach efforts within the downtown business community and other local charitable and social service organizations.- Implemented the annual fund-raising and capital campaigns by contacting church members, participating in public speaking engagements, and serving as the media relations representative with local newspapers.