Susan Gleissner, Acc Email & Phone Number

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Saint Paul, Mn, Us

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Using a strengths-based approach, I provide a range of organization development consultation in areas including employee engagement, organizational culture, leadership development, talent management and team development with leaders at all levels. In addition, I coach leaders one-on-one and in a peer coaching format.- Design and facilitation of small and large group leadership development programs focused on building trust, managing performance, authentically connecting with staff, and more.- Apply human centered design principles to Human Resources processes such as employee onboarding- Design qualitative data collection methods to identify contributing factors to organizational challenges. From this data, I design customized team interventions to address the contributing factors. - Design and facilitation of small and large scale staff engagement sessions aimed to advance the organization's culture.- And much more!

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

This Big Wild World (www.thisbigwildworld.com) is a travel website featuring outdoor adventures and off-the-beaten path experiences. My mission is to help readers see themselves as adventurers, whatever that means to them because life is better with adventure.Responsibilities: Founder, creating content, social media marketing, email marketing and designing webpage.Skills: Social media marketing, web design, Google Analytics, email marketing, strategic planning, virtual collaboration.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Primal Kitchen Foods provides delicious and nutrient-dense condiments, salad dressings, avocado oils, collagen protein bars and protein shakes that are primal diet inspired. Responsibilities: Building brand awareness in the Twin Cities market.Projects: Foster relationships with buyers at grocers and co-ops. Schedule and host product demos, engaging directly with consumers. Develop marketing strategy to build brand awareness in Twin Cities, including affiliate marketing. Skills: Market research, understanding consumer needs, implementing sales strategies, virtual collaboration.

Minneapolis, Mn

Contracted by a leadership team at the largest university system in the United States to assess leadership behaviors and team effectiveness. This assessment was then used to design and facilitate a 1-1/2 day interactive workshop focusing on communication style, conflict resolution modes, building personal connections, giving and receiving feedback, coaching, and accountability. Providing ongoing virtual coaching to individuals and the team through January 2018.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

DRI Consulting is an organization and leadership development consulting organization that leverages positive psychology in its partnership with clients in the areas of selection, recruitment, leadership coaching, and organization development. We emphasize transparency in assessment results and interpretation in our selection and development approach.December 2017 Update: As I graduate, I am shifting to leading the facilitation of a group mentoring program for DRI Consulting and continuing to manage social media for the organization. Responsibilities: Career and development coaching, selection and development report writing, preparation of client proposals, recruiting, strategic business planning and sales.Projects: Coached General Manager of manufacturing organization on how to incorporate insights from assessments into their personal development plan; Served as career coach for client undergoing career change, resulting in successful job placement; Designed and facilitated internal strategic business planning and team development programs; Led developmental report writing for manufacturing manager, leveraging psychometry insights; Recommended recruiting strategy to identify diversity candidates for a CEO position in manufacturing; Building social media strategy to support growth objectives and engage with potential clients.Skills: Consulting, client needs assessment, psychometry interpretation, proposal writing, sales, virtual collaboration, presentation skills, team development, coaching.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Responsibilities: Deliver breakthrough business results by leading organizational change management initiatives focused on building coaching, servant leadership, and data-driven decision making capabilities of site leaders and implementing a new organizational structure at locations across North America. 50-75% travel.Projects: Led organizational change management initiative at two sites and supported initiatives at five sites; Planned and facilitated more than ten quarterly leadership development plant visits, prioritizing removing barriers to enable site success; Integrated strategic planning and goal setting with change management initiative; Led content development and delivery for four day immersive leadership development course held quarterly, emphasizing team development, team building, leadership development and coaching capability for global Supply Chain leaders; Developed framework for and coached supply chain leaders on how to enable the new organizational structure; Development of company-wide job analysis to support new organizational structure selection process, which included defining scope of roles, career path, progression and compensation; Served as interim manager of virtual team for six months during leadership transitions.Skills: Coaching, servant leadership, organizational change management, leadership development, training content development, training facilitation, strategic planning, project management, influence (up/ down/ across), job analysis, talent management. Also, served as member of the annual Campus Recruiting Team at Purdue University from 2003-2015. More details on my role under Accomplishment --​> Projects Section of my profile.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsibilities: Managed two departments, including responsibility for selection, on-boarding, performance management, conflict resolution, team effectiveness and leadership development. Member of Leadership Team responsible for site-wide staffing, risk management, policy development, communication, employee relations and strategic planning (300+ employees, 150+ temporary employees). Delivered a $5MM capital plan annually. Overall direct budget responsibility for over $15MM. Projects: Promoted more than 5 employees across both departments; Fostered development of shared vision to enable department integration; Designed and led site-wide event to ignite culture change; Led the establishment and implementation of a training and development strategy for the department, which included the creation of Job Task Analysis, a revised selection process, and clear performance expectations to better align with the performance management process; Reduced maintenance material cost by 9%, professional services spending by 30%, and working capital by $1.5MM with no impact to customer service.Skills: Performance management, selection, organizational change management, talent management, active listening, giving/receiving feedback, demonstrating vulnerability, public speaking, team effectiveness, team building, budget management.

Chanhassen, Mn

See details in Plant Technical Manager role as this was a combined role.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Responsibilities: Provide business partnership for the Cereal Business Team and seven manufacturing sites with a total capital budget >$150MM, delivering $55MM in productivity. Most junior person ever to be offered this position.Projects: Led development and implementation of company-wide risk-based essential capital prioritization process to redistribute funding available for high-risk safety needs and to enable investments that would advance the plant’s organizational culture; Coached cross-functional project teams on application of vertical startup (VSU) concepts to ensure delivery of business objectives; Led development of long range strategic plan of innovation and productivity concepts. Skills: Consumer testing, understanding consumer needs, influence (up/ down/ across), presentation skills, project management, risk assessment, strategic planning, resource planning.

Responsibilities: Led system improvements in efficiency, capacity, safety, and sanitation for cereal packaging systems. First System Engineer in an expatriate role within joint venture with Nestle (Cereal Partners Worldwide), building cultural competence by translating technical experience into a global work environment. Projects: Facilitated development and implementation of a packaging technician training program, including assessments, courses and tracking tools. Negotiated vendor to provide innovative technology on a trial basis (free of charge) to be installed onsite. Led vendor evaluation and selection for significant site infrastructure investment.Skills: Cultural competence, influence (up/down/across), cross-cultural leadership, active listening, delegation, leading in a unionized organization, negotiation, flexibility, adaptability, repatriation.

Responsibilities: Integrate continuous improvement (TPM) concepts into overall site strategic plans. Influence and educate leaders on TPM concepts. Provide subject matter expertise on TPM tools and pillars. Projects: Established and led implementation of the Continuous Improvement (TPM) strategy for the site, including definition of the vision and facilitation of action planning; Implemented ‘Taste of CI’ course to build employee capability.Skills: Training content development, training facilitation, train-the-trainer, influence (up/ down/ across), strategic planning facilitation, delegation, client need identification.

Responsibilities: Led system improvements in efficiency, capacity, safety, and sanitation for yogurt packaging lines.Projects: Developed and delivered training content to improve employee capability related to root cause analysis tools; Led team responsible for implementation and validation of equipment stops tracking site-wide. Skills: Training content development, training facilitation, leadership, building relationships at all levels of an organization, problem solving, strategic planning.

Responsibilities: Completed four rotations in people and technical leadership roles in supply chain.Projects: Led Early Career Development Networking Group across North American locations.Skills: Managing people, giving and receiving feedback, building relationships at all levels of an organization, active listening, presentation skills, leadership, adaptability, project management, problem solving.

Responsibilities: Accepted into Co-Op Program through Purdue University’s School of Engineering. Led process improvement initiatives for all US facilities across all platforms. 75% travel.Projects: Designed vision system measuring quality of baked goods; Support startup of the largest soybean oil refinery in the world; Awarded patents 7,247,232 and 7,201,837 for using waste hydrogenated soybean oil as fuel in a boiler.Skills: Leadership, decision making, building relationships, design of experiments, project management, adaptability.

Master'S Degree, Applied Psychology, Focus On Organizational Psychology

This program focuses on leveraging psychology to understand employee and consumer motivations and behaviors. Relevant coursework.

Bs, Chemical Engineering

Activities and Societies: American Institute of Chemical Engineering (Treasurer) Co-Op Student AssociationExchange Student with University.