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Tampa, Florida, United States

Tampa, Florida, United States

Founded a leadership development and organizational effectiveness consultancy that serves a diverse range of clients, including GE, The Coca-Cola Company, Unisys, Boeing, and Synchrony. Partner with organizations to help them maximize their goals through customized training and development resources (e.g. emerging leadership, HiPo, diversity & inclusion programming) and support clients in designing complete learning systems to address crucial needs and business pain points.

Greater Chicago Area

Recruited into a senior L&D leadership role to support a national portfolio of wineries, tasting rooms, and restaurants. Led a team in developing and delivering a corporate learning strategy and training programs to foster staff leadership and corporate growth.

Tampa, Florida, United States

Stepped into a newly created role and served as an internal organizational development (OD) consultant for Bloomin' Brands corporate and its core restaurant brands. Strategized, developed, and led rollout of specialized training initiatives, including those specific to performance management, D&I, compliance, and history & culture.While here, created and implemented the company's first D&I training, rolled out ethics and compliance training, and relaunched an enterprise-wide LMS that serves 100K users.

Roanoke, Virginia, United States

Planned and deployed enterprise-wide sales, operations, and training initiatives for 3,500 retail stores and commercial teams across the U.S. and Puerto Rico. Partnered with cross-functional stakeholders to ensure the success of each initiative and served as a trusted advisor and business partner to the company's regional VPs, district leaders, and support staff. Led a team of six.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Led strategic planning and provided subject matter expertise in the development and deployment of multi-year, global learning content strategies. Supervised a team of partners while setting vision for program management teams.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Provided training and development support to Starbucks' global operations, regional vice presidents, JV partners, and company-owned stores to address identified skill gaps.

Seattle, Washington, United States

Advised senior leaders on program delivery, training needs, and rollouts and led a team of training specialists in developing and rolling out strategic training programs for regional leaders (South Central U.S.)

Dallas, Texas, United States

Promoted to manage training and communication for Blockbuster's Central and West U.S. regions (1,800+ stores), with leadership over a team of 10 regional trainers. Ensured field training curriculum was consistently implemented across all regions and associates.

Dallas, Texas, United States

Educated district leaders on proper methods of evaluating stores based on KPIs and trained them on team engagement program development tools. Chosen as one of five people companywide to launch Project Store University, a major initiative that aimed to standardize store processes, provide customers a consistent experience, increase revenue, and reduce shrinkage.

Dallas, Texas, United States

Oversaw HR for two U.S. regions (220 stores, 2,000+ employees). Managed strategy and training as Starbucks opened 24 new Game Rush concept stores and led store opening activities for 15+ stores, including recruitment, hiring, and training.

Greater Orlando

After six years of progressive promotions in recruitment and training & development, I served as Team Leader for Disney University's Global Training & Development team.