Susan Simpson Email & Phone Number

Denver, Co, Us

Denver, Colorado, United States

Founder of MIRЯIM, LLC Coaching.

Greater Denver Area

PAIRIN, Inc. - is a Software as a Service (SaaS) provider that automates the process of measuring, mapping and developing the behaviors and skills that lead to success in work and life. • Establishing the first validated measurement system for life and work readiness.• Contracted for team development, vocational transitions, business and educational coaching. • Conduct in-depth coach training and debriefs for major account clients (workforce development, education, hiring and leadership).• Assist in product development, report design, content writing and editing.

Fairplay, Co

Bringing truffles to life from the troubles of life, The Chocolate Bordello, is the home of artisan chocolates with a past! Our voluptuous truffles embody bygone ladies of ill-repute. They lay bare our view that bitter lives & troubles can grow sweet--like truffles--when taken in with all-embracing love. We're desperate (all of us) for love!

Greater Denver Area

Our personal & interpersonal skills development makes TROVE unique in the industry. We focus on talent and leadership development in corporate, non-profit and global contexts. Here are some of our specialties:• Personal and Professional Development• Human Aspects of Mergers and Acquisitions• Organizational Design • Team/Leadership development. Susan's coaching specialties: Professional/personal effectiveness, internationals, cross-cultural communication, passion/vision casting, language/phrasing, entrepreneurs, leadership, idea/creativity, transition/reorientation, problem solving/solutions, culture/paradigm shift and assimilation, relationship bridging.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

• Leveraging years in business and international relations, mentored and coached university students, teachers and professionals throughout Russia. Examples of her clients include: HR staff for "Mars" and "Nissan Motors" Russia — a consultant in organizational development & training (who became the Russian country director for international aid and development agency "Tearfund") — a person with a disability who envisioned, launched and established a faith based non-profit organization that supports and develops youth with disabilities and their families — an artist who sought and discovered her perfect career as a professional recruiter — the director of a start-up language school, family center and associated summer camp program in St. Petersburg, Russia — a psychologist, through transitions from Russia to Israel.• Collaborated with a St. Petersburg State University professor of psychology in teaching Communication & Social-Emotional Skills.• Facilitated relational bridge-building in personal, business, educational and marital contexts. • Successfully assimilated and led cross-cultural teams. • Held various roles that included public speaking, national conference planning, group workshops and studies, but the bulk of time was spent in individual and small group coaching sessions.• Fluent in the Russian language.

Kiev, Ukraine

This was a one-year role in response to an invitation by officials from the Russian Ministry of Education as they attempted to find noncommunist foundations for education, made efforts to embrace religious liberty, and sought acceptance of ideological pluralism in education.• Consultant in cross-cultural communication - Kiev Palace of Culture• Taught Business Morals and Ethics course at Kiev Academy of Business• Team Teaching, Training, and Educational Seminars• Active in the creation, organization and leadership of educational conferences both in Kiev and in the Carpathian Mountain region

Greater Atlanta Area

The nation's largest pallet pool rental system which evolved out of the grocery industry's desire to improve on the existing pallet exchange system's inefficiencies, shoddy pallet quality, and environmental negligence.Head of Deep South Area Service (Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Puerto Rico), responsible for 151 distributor's and a staff of four territory managers. • Increased area account base by 20%, and volume by 100% versus previous year. Area leads in 5 out of the 6 regional performance measures.• Attained highest distributor pallet pull-through on Chep's national Pillsbury roll-out.• Point person for the geographical re-engineering of the Service organization to achieve an estimated annual savings of $240M.Manager of Information Systems in the 11-state South Region, which were fundamental to service, efficiency and zero pallet loss in over 250 distribution and 150 manufacturing facilities. Required extensive customer interface in evaluating current receiving/shipping systems to determine the optimal integration of pallet tracking and data transfer to Chep.• Designed systems strategy for Chep USA South using Pareto and ABC analyses to prioritize the demand for technology. Chep South became the company leader in account automation.• Managed successful Electronic Data Interchange start-ups at 5 manufacturer's using industry standard formats and links between customer's, Value Added Networks, and Chep USA.• Instrumental in the design of Chep's core PC software package "ChepInfo", and it's subsequent implementation in over 58 distributor and 11 manufacturer sites. • Responsible for the internal systems of Chep's South Region office including Voice Processing, a 30-PC Local Area Network, and a server which supported connectivity to 4 other Chep offices and field devices.

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Plano, TX: Business Proposal Manager - Marketing (5/91 - 9/91)Responsible for structuring business proposals to ensure West Area market actions aligned with corporate business strategy.• Developed and prime moved 31 business proposals requiring significant brand interface and cross functional communication to sell area initiatives to Headquarters business teams.• Achieved 100% success ratio in the implementation phase which involved detailed planning and communications throughout the organization.Plano, TX: Industrial Engineer - Operations Planning (11/89 to 5/91)Business Decision Management• Performed processing and packaging capacity analysis on all business initiatives involving Doritos, Ruffles, and Lay's Brands.• Identified optimum product supply scenarios for 112 business proposals.• Analyzed operational feasibility prior to committing functional resources against proposals. Network Planning Engineer• Conducted a comprehensive review of 6 year capital spending vs productivity gains in the distribution channel. This study was instrumental in the recent expansion of Frito-Lay's distribution channel management to include manufacturing warehouses and sales operations.• Successfully managed the start-up of the order processing department for the Modesto, CA plant.

Topeka, Kansas Area

Operations/Projects Supervisor - Responsible for the line management of the 98 OTR drivers in Frito-Lay's largest logistics center (11 managers/25 non-exempt employees), and the planning, implementation and management of the various projects.• Performed a statistical analysis and worked with the shipping department to increase cube targets on trailers by 3.5% resulting in an annual savings of $287M.• Designed and implemented a PC based DC ordering performance feedback system.• Responsible for Topeka's roll-out of the Private Carrier CADEC package.• Petitioned by Denver Logistics management to review their existing operating systems and identify opportunities. Identified annual savings of $115M in the areas of network, communication and organizational structure.Order Entry/Network Supervisor - Managed and trained a network technician and four customer service representatives. Responsible for the network and all phases of order processing, promotional volume plan execution and customer service.• Responsible for the orders of 446 route salesmen (2/week delivery), 23 major DCs and over 250 vend customers.• Identified problems with the hand-held computer system which resulted in several enhancements and reduced clerical overtime.Network Engineer - Responsible for the routing of a network involving 1,100 deliveries/week, 6.3 million miles/year, $861M backhaul revenue/year, and all raw materials for three plants.• Achieved a 9% increase in network productivity worth $450M annually.• Led the roll-out and development of ROVER, Frito-Lay's state-of-the-art logistics scheduling system.• Facilitated Topeka's position as Frito-Lay's #1 producer of backhaul revenue in 1988.Traffic Supervisor - Responsible for the second shift dispatch. Managed one dispatch specialist and three hostlers. Also developed a DBase computer program to assist the inbound department in managing freight charges.

Topeka, Kansas Area

• Restructured the mainframe Vehicle Scheduling Program to increase routing efficiency and improve mileage accuracy while reducing processing time.