Providing personal and professional development coaching and consultative support services.

Coaching / consulting business leaders, entrepreneurs, and college students;

Vision Consulting is a family owned firm in which I am contracted to provide consultative support in the areas of human resource leadership, business and non-profit development, training and facilitation services.

The Donor Relations Officer role is the intermediary between the public and MTM home office location. Responsibilities include:* managed 125 to 150 donor relationships, including corporate, community and ecumenical and individuals donors. * Cultivated relationships through personal liaison, providing written materials, * Conducted offsite informative MTM updates and Q&A sessions with various public and private organizations and individual donors * resulting in over 30% increase in major donor retention, reactivation, volunteer engagement, gift-in-kind receipts, and fulfillment. * Maintained donor relationship records in the "Raiser's Edge"​ records management system.* Created standard operating procedure for the Donor Relation Officer role* Achieved maximum capacity of invitees to attend MTM "President's Luncheon and Facility tours"​. * Facilitated Capital Campaign fund development for a new Women's Shelter, Library, Food Pantry, and Community Center.* Donor cultivation activities resulted in MTM receiving the first $1,000,000 bequest gift, <$175,000 in corporate gifts, and increased individual giving by 10%, resulting in a budget surplus as of 2014 year end.

This contract training facilitator position was part of the "Caring Communities" -- Active Parenting Now suite of family reunification classes offered to returning citizens to reduce recidivism. * Facilitated parenting classes onsite to inmates at the Ionia State prison * Managed progress reports to the institutional training director, warden, and Pine Rest program mgrs.* Provided process and system improvement recommendations

HR business unit consultant support for various divisions including: legal, finance, customer support and security. Assist executive leadership and managment in organizational strategic alignment and development.Partnered with leadership to oversee and coordinate talent management, training and development, performance management, succession planning, exit and promotional strategy.Lead generalist responsibilities in employee and labor relations, training and development, benefits and compensation, safety and security, organizational development and design consultation.

Provided human resource business partnership and support executive leadership within Amway / Alticor at the corporate headquarters. Business unit responsibilities included: Legal, Finance, Corporate Security, Distribution, and the Customer Service division. * Consulted leaders on all human resource related activities such as training and development, benefits and compensation, organizational design and development, safety and security.* Shared best in class - people practices and legal compliance * Lead employee advocacy issues where appropriate* Championed business unit investigations and conflict resolution* Facilitated planning and reporting meetings with each divisional team to address: staffing needs, onboarding, training, performance management, succession planning, organizational restructure, reduction in force, and workforce planning issues.

The Delta Strategy Community Facilitator partners with community leaders in analyzing problematic needs and issues, then designing actionable plans to address the issues, then developing those plans and assigning roles and responsibilities, implementing and executing the plans, then following up with an evaluation of outcomes. My roles and project development responsibilities focused in three areas: 1) The West Michigan Health Field Collaborative 2) The (MPRI) Michigan Prisoner Re-entry Initiative 3) Work Keys implementation initiative. Activities include:* Researching and developing collaborative support * Facilitating community planning and action meetings* Providing information and consultation for community leaders* Facilitate and monitor progress toward goals

In this role as a contract facilitator responsibilities included supporting the team by:* facilitating research and development activities in: The Health Field Collaborative, The Michigan Prisoner Re-Entry Roundtable, and the regional Work-Keys implementation initiatives. * Drive strategic plans for community collaboration, engagement and workforce development in targeted sectors. * Researched, analyzed, consulted and communicated on issues and solutions to expand training and opportunities in nursing, returning citizens, and skill competency assessment.

This contract position role includes workforce development activities aligning businesses, non-profit organizations, community organizations, and Michigan Works services to form strategic collaborations that facilitate work and life skills training, and employment readiness. * Co-designed and developed model based upon proven best practices* Managed $500,000 Workforce Investment Board grant funding * Promoted, oversaw, facilitated, measured and evaluated program impact within the communities* Designed and facilitated leadership training for business, community, ecumenical leaders. * The federal workforce development board identified the "Employment Alliance program" as exemplary among several similar programs in the U.S.

This HRM role and responsibility * Initiated and implemented market-wide in store human resource management function* Oversee sourcing, recruiting, staffing, scheduling, training programs* Initiated computer based training and employee development systems * Performed comprehensive H.R. audits to bring compliance with the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs

In this role the regional HRD consultant provided support services to corporate owned and franchisee restaurant leaders and managers throughout Michigan. * District liaison between more than 2500 employees in the field * Introduced numerous corporate programs and projects to the west michigan regional group.* Lead employee investigations with consultation corporate legal team and regional management* Facilitated orientation training and benefits orientations throughout the region* Lead staffing and recruiting programs on numerous college campuses across west michigan * Coordinated regional W.O.T.C. tax credit program, which became a system wide best practice