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Phoenix, Az, Us

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Provide executive coaching and career guidance for professionals in career transition. Consult with candidates on professional options including career changes, business start-ups and retirement.· Develop career management strategies for executives and other professionals resulting in expedited placements and greater job satisfaction.· Coach and consult candidates to successfully navigate career transition through personal branding, market research and up-skilling around interviewing, presenting business cases, and negotiating.

Denver, Colorado, Us

Lead learning / development and people / culture functions to create inclusive, engaging and rewarding work environments. Developed self-aware leaders to create company culture focused on growth mindset, empathy and transparency.· Directed the Learning & Development (L&D) team in delivering people-focused programs that drive business performance and add value to the company and employee experience.· Designed and launched first high-potential leadership development program for The North Face retail focusing on strengths-based leadership and EQ development, resulting in 50% of the participant leveling-up in the first six months.· Built out success profiles for all retail positions (associate to District Manager), clearly defining roles and provided L&D to support individual career journeys.· Created retail customer engagement/selling strategy defining desired behaviors and their influence on key performance indicators.· Redesigned onboarding, focused on team assimilation and connection with history/heritage, to deliver consistent, inspiring brand experience for new associates.· Architect of L&D approach to include end user learnings (business impact), management training resources (train-the-trainer for scalability) and leadership measurement tools.· Led diversity and inclusion initiatives for retail ensuring corporate programs are customized for stores and effectively communicated, while developing listening channels for retail voices.

Huntington Beach, Ca, Us

Effectively led and managed a staffing agency within an advertising agency, focused on recapturing the culture that created the organization’s reputation as being the most desirable team on the auto show circuit. Additional focus was placed on understanding, improving and documenting the operations of the Product Specialist program. · Develop international Product Special (PS) program, deploying first group of US-based PS staff to Seoul, South Korea for launch event at world headquarters.· Rebuilt budgets (and budgeting process) for the entire program, identifying hundreds of thousands of dollars in savings; allocating funds to program priorities with better ROI.· Identified, hired, trained and deployed diverse staff of 75 Product Specialists to effectively communicate brand messages of established and new-to-market luxury automotive manufacturers in 63 US markets.· Created, implemented and automated show and team reports to effectively capture impact of programs and provide metrics for new business development.

Milwaukee, Wi, Us

Provided executive coaching and career guidance for professionals recently displaced from jobs. Consulted with candidates on professional options including career changes, business start-ups and retirement.· Developed career management strategies for executives and other professionals leading to expedited placements and greater job satisfaction.· Developed and facilitated candidate training programs, strengthening skills in interviewing, presenting business cases, personal branding and negotiating.

Huntington Beach, Ca, Us

Traveled the US with the Hyundai Product Specialist team representing the brand at auto shows and events from San Diego to Boston. There is a lot of information to keep on top of, but the job is really about understanding what motivates the customer in front of you, and then helping them understand how the brand meets and exceeds their needs. My job breaks down into 2 areas:TEAM LEAD - At many of the events, I manage the booth, ensuring the brand aesthetic is being met, all activations are running as they should and managing the staff of between 2 and 8 employees. My job is to make sure everything is clicking so consumers leave the Hyundai space thinking more of the brand then when they arrived. As Team Lead I am also part of the team that trains the product specialists each year. Recently I developed a mentor program for the product specialist team. We ended up with 100% retention of that group and 4 were moved to higher visibility projects.HOST AND PRESENTER - At the "major" auto shows, I fulfill one of my life-long dreams, to host a game show. Ultimately, this is just another training and development role. I facilitate communicating the brand message through a game show format, and I give presentations on new technologies and products. I educate.

Led HR function for start-up consumer electronics manufacturer as it grew to $850M per year multi-location, multi-national company with presence in Hong Kong, China and the US. · Hired, developed and managed five-member HR team to partner with leadership in defining and achieving individual, departmental and company goals.· Implemented an executive corporate communications strategy, ensuring timely and consistent information sharing, and improving collaboration between departments.

Orlando, Fl, Us

Managed internal communications and employee events to drive corporate culture, support company-branding message, and distribute information. Composed executive communication, newsletters, ad hoc announcements and town hall presentations.- Led communication strategy during transition from a Disney-run organization to being managed by The Children's Place.- Spearheaded culture-saving initiatives to preserve positive cultural aspects while business priority was refocusing on retail operations.- Communicated sensitive information on restructuring, lay-offs, physical moves and system migrations, empowering employees during ownership change.- Planned and executed company-wide events, executive retreats, team building excursions, and national sales conferences, consistently meeting business objectives, promoting teamwork, and having fun, while managing budgets.- Worked with Disney VoluntEARs to ensure continued involvement for Disney Store employees.

Jacksonville, Florida, Us

Provide classroom based and virtual career transition services to clients, one-on-one executive coaching and career counseling. Created and delivered individual and group-training programs, based on needs of clients and customers, managed the job transition process. Lead daily orientation sessions for new clients on outplacement services provided by their former company, introducing DBM and ensure client engagement.- Develop employee recognition program to reward employees for outstanding performance on peer-to-peer level, strengthening team engagement and promoting effective project collaboration.

Bachelor’S Degree, Business Administration

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