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As a Senior Partner in Korn Ferry's Advisory Services in the San Francisco Bay area, we work with world class organizations to design, build, attract and ignite talent. Since Korn Ferry's inception, clients have trusted us to recruit world class talent. Today, we have evolved into a single source for leadership and talent consulting services going far beyond executive recruitment and encompassing leadership development, enterprise learning, succession planning, recruitment process outsourcing and more. By igniting the human potential within our organizations, we serve as a catalyst for growth, transformation and high performance.The most pressing imperative for businesses today is the quest for growth with the biggest challenge being the talent and leadership needed to secure and sustain it. With a combination of individual and organizational components, we will help you transform your organization by enabling you to engage people, ignite potential, overcome inertia, generate motion, enhance teamwork, coordinate action, and actually activate your organization’s strategy.

Arlington, Va, Us

Oakland, California, Us

Davis, California, Us

UC Davis Graduate School of Management was named as the fastest rising business school in the 2013 Forbes ranking. The full time MBA program has been ranked nationally in the top 10% for 16 consecutive years.Implemented strategic plan for this newly created business unit inside the school to create high‐quality executive education programs designed to bring customer‐centric educational experiences to participants and their organizations resulting in measurable transformation.Major accomplishments included the development and delivery of a program on growing and scaling your business for a group of agribusiness CEO's in China and leading the development and delivery of a series of programs for the investment office staff of CalPERS, the largest pension fund in the world. Also updated the marketing and operations for the widely renowned UC Davis Wine Executive Program now entering its 15th successful year and was part of a team who introduced the first line extension for this program in the Wine Packaging space.

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Watermark is a community of exceptional women leaders in the San Francisco Bay area seeking to grow their personal impact in their professions and in society. Transformed Watermark by developing new mission/vision and new services more relevant to the members and sponsors. Goals were to create a financially sustainable organization, grow membership and increase engagement of existing members. As a former for-profit executive and a peer of the members, was able to create change and add value that resonated with the unique challenges and opportunities faced by these exceptional women leaders. ; Illuminate Ventures - Venture Fund; Former Board member of ION - non-profit focused on advocacy to support more women on Boards; Watermark - Emeritus non-profit Board member.

Created boutique consulting firm specializing in executive performance and leadership coaching targeted to C-level business leaders in retail, insurance, manufacturing, energy, education, pharmaceutical, banking, technology and entertainment industries. Provided executive leadership and coaching services as an independent contractor to Vistage International, Mariposa Leadership and Marshall Goldsmith, LLC.

Promoted to Thomson division - London, England based two hundred year old legal and regulatory publisher. Full P&L responsibility for 4 locations throughout England, Ireland and Scotland. Transformed organization from traditional print publisher to online environment and facilitated launch of Westlaw UK, first non US version of Westlaw legal online service. Lead successful acquisition and integration of Lawtel online service. Initiated change management initiative.

New York City, Ny, Us

Lead academic and corporate business units. Had full P&L responsibility and lead strategic planning, human resources, finance, product development, sales, marketing and content licensing areas. Developed and implemented detailed business plans for each unit, lead creation of new business information online product for corporate market, participated in growth strategy initiative with Strategos consultants.

Responsible for licensing and development all non West published content for Westlaw legal online service. Lead publisher identification, content acquisition strategy, negotiated licensing agreements, and product development/commercialization on the online platform.

Member of executive leadership of Thomson Division - Gale Research, a library reference publisher. Led strategic planning, product development, commercialization, new business developmen and tactical marketing efforts.

Joined this start-up division of the Thomson Corporation created to support cross-company and cross-industry commercialization of electronic content. Developed strategic alliances with senior executives across all Thomson business units to analyze and develop client specific opportunities.

Mls, Information Science

Bsc, Government And Library Science