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A global Six Sigma/Change Management leader of diverse bridge-building cross-cultural, cross-organizational and cross-functional collaborative teams achieving holistic boundary-crossing diverse business operations sustained improvements while mentoring worldwide individuals in personal career planning endeavors. Motivated by a career path initially developed in high school years, retired early from Rochester NY-based Eastman Kodak to focus on service-in-support-of-others volunteer leadership in Oregon. Subsequently served in both SCORE small business counseling and a church ministry with a foundational mission to ‘help you help yourself’, collaborating on the design, implementation and ongoing leadership of a diversely-open program focused on career planning and job search. Over 17 years with the church ministry and privately since individually mentored with gratitude one-on-one over 350 seekers to achieve career success.Core Competencies:• Global Change Management Leader • Educator and Mentor• Collaborative Bridge Builder across diverse constituents • Strategic and Tactical Planning • Operations Management • Research• Design• Implementing Pragmatically • Continuous Improvement • Explaining the complex simply without being simplistic • Worldwide Project Leadership• Adept with Forests and TreesGallup CliftonStrengths Profile:1. Connectedness: Open to seeking to see with new eyes, Tim finds links between seemingly unrelated situations, leading to creative problem solutions and effective sustainable change.2. Strategic: Easily focused on both forests and trees, from both high level and detail level perspectives, Tim can quickly spot relevant patterns and issues, creating innovative alternative ways to proceed.3. Learner: With unbounded curiosity and energetic DNA to personally learn and grow as well as help others learn and grow, Tim’s abilities are continually expanding, both in learning and in pragmatically applying.4. Relator: Tim builds bridges globally, between diverse cultures, between organizations and between individuals from locations on varying distant continents to shared local locations to the same organization at the same location.5. Individualization: Tim seeks to empathetically see others as individuals with unique backgrounds, unique abilities, unique experiences and unique personal goals, not as collective commonalities of large synonymous groupings. “The real voyage of discovery is not in seeking new lands but in seeing with new eyes.”

Listed skills include Leadership, Cross Functional Team Leadership, Program Management, Management, and 46 others.