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Flower Mound, Tx, Us

Us

— Providing expertise to acquire or partner with new companies in the training/education, organizational development, coaching, consulting, and change management sectors.— Providing strategic leadership and expertise in all operations and support functions; resulting in enhanced employee and customer experiences; growing the company, its revenue, and net profit.— Results such as, within the first six months, a company doubled in size; Services, revenues, and profits for Y1 Q4 increased 66% over Y1 Q1; Y2 Q1 revenues increased 60% YOY; Y2 Q2 revenues increased 100% YOY.— Substantial increase in diversity, equity, inclusion within company.— Substantial improvement in company culture.— Best practices implemented including high performing team processes, development plans and training, regular performance feedback, etc.— Major marketing and sales enhancements.

Troy, Michigan, Us

— Providing expertise in training, organizational development, coaching, consulting, and change management.— Providing strategic leadership and expertise in all operations and support functions; resulting in enhanced employee and customer experiences; growing the company, its revenue, and net profit.— Major marketing and sales enhancements.

— Providing expertise to acquire new companies in the training/education, organizational development, coaching, consulting, and change management sectors.— Providing strategic leadership and expertise in all operations and support functions; resulting in enhanced employee and customer experiences; growing the company, its revenue, and net profit.— Results such as, within the first six months, a company doubled in size; Services, revenues, and profits for Y1 Q4 increased 66% over Y1 Q1; Y2 Q1 revenues increased 60% YOY; Y2 Q2 revenues increased 100% YOY.— Substantial increase in diversity, equity, inclusion within company.— Substantial improvement in company culture.— Best practices implemented including high performing team processes, development plans and training, regular performance feedback, etc.— Major marketing and sales enhancements.

Chantilly, Virginia, Us

— Provided training, organizational development, and change management expertise to the senior leadership and customers of Aptara—ranked in the top 20 training companies in the world— Provided marketing, recruiting, and sales expertise to Aptara senior leadership— Helped form, led, and developed high performing Instructional Design team— Led and co-led improved Aptara analyses, instructional design processes, articles, sales meeting support, and public webinars (Employee Engagement, Micro-Learning, Organizational Transformation, Virtual Learning, Systems Training, Workforce of Tomorrow, Virtualization, etc.)— Created learning solutions in all four training types: instructor-led (virtual and classroom), self-study (eLearning, quick reference guides, etc.), collaborative/social, and on-the-job activities— Created learning solutions in all major modalities: mobile, virtual, gamification, micro-learning, eLearning, virtual reality, rapid development, video, webinar, animation, quick reference guide, info map, interactive PDF, etc.— Gathered best practice content, completed analyses, developed plans, created design docs and storyboards, and developed and delivered final learning solutions— E&Y—Problem Solving, Tax Compliance, Cost Segregation, GLICI, Grantor Trusts, Intelligent Automation, Private Equity and Hedge Funds, Creating Client Connections, Year One Training Redesign; TE Connectivity—Global Talent Acquisition New Hire Training; BNY Mellon—Risk/Fraud, Proprietary Customer Products; iRhythm—EKG; CPA.com—CAS; BCBST—Remote Work Best Practices; AT&T—Proprietary Software, Sales Excellence; BCBSF—Proprietary Software; Booz Allen Hamilton—Virtual Learning; PWC—Proprietary Customer Products; OneCall—New Hire Training; Intuit—Payroll Software; Goodwill—Global Performance Best Practices— Contributed to Aptara winning multiple awards from Training Industry and Brandon Hall in 2019 and 2021

Bethesda, Md, Us

Helped lead the global Talent & Organizational Capability team for this 29,000 Aeronautics division through various projects.

Irving, Texas, Us

Led the national Learning & Development team for this 4000-employee independent oil and gas exploration and production company through this contract project. Led project management tool creation, approval, and pilot implementation; co-led creation/approval/implementation for new and existing procedures and guides.

Westlake, Texas, Us

— Responsible for training and organizational development of the global workforce—for this subsidiary of the world's fourth largest software development company.— Led development/implementation of training and organizational development strategy—in alignment with HR, Omnitracs, and Vista Equity Partners business strategies, leaders/boards, and departments.— Improved 30+ interdepartmental processes enabling Sales via organizational development best practices.— Improved 17 metrics in Sales training in 2016 vs. 2015.— Due to leader development initiatives, employee engagement improved 20%; 100% of leaders now coach and 93% now develop their direct reports; and the % of leaders who improved in each of the following performance management areas are: hiring 32%, onboarding 28%, setting goals 58%, delegating 33%, motivating 47%, coaching 63%, correcting 42%, developing 47%, teaming 45%, etc.— Earned multiple Vista Equity training and organizational development award nominations, finalists, and wins.— Attracted top talent, formed and leading team of internal direct reports and managing multiple vendor leaders/employees. Project leading internal leaders/employees and external vendor leaders/employees. — Positively changed departmental culture increasing engagement and reducing turnover.— Drove multiple enterprise-wide training and organizational development solutions (from analysis and design through to development, implementation, and evaluation) including engineering, sales, customer support—all comprised of classroom, live webinar, elearning, and on-the-job learning; new hire orientation and onboarding, compliance trainings, performance management, employee engagement, DISC, 360s, mentoring, 9 box, succession planning, competency modeling, leadership development portal, etc.— Advanced numerous departmental enhancements including measuring effectiveness, branding/communication, enhanced processes, high performing teams, global development council, etc.

Fremont, California, Us

— Developed and delivered DISC personality type interactive live webinar.

London, Gb

— Edited three college textbooks for diversity and inclusion issues including Rathus Human Sexuality, Donatelle Health the Basics, and Blit Trigonometry.

Toronto, On, Ca

— Responsible for leading the multi-national Client Engagement team during this contract project.— Co-led enhancement of existing polices/procedures, development of new best-practice policies/procedures, and policy/procedure documentation.— Co-led (from analysis and design through to development, implementation, and evaluation) Specialist onboarding and ongoing training.

Kista, Stockholm, Se

— Responsible for assisting the Learning and Development team for the North American Region during this contract project.— Co-led the 2015 strategic learning plan process including working with Workforce Planning and progressing the final deliverables for the annual Regional Heads of Learning meeting. — Co-led learning fair planning and execution at four locations to showcase Learning and Development, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Benefits and Conference Board solutions.— Led Marketing Communications sub-team strategy development.— Analyzed and reported out on team dynamics and development; initiated high performance team process.

Irving, Texas, Us

— Responsible for enterprise-wide leadership and employee training, learning, and organization development for a 19,000+ global workforce.— Co-led development/implementation of training/learning/organization development strategies—in alignment with Talent Management, HR, and Flowserve business strategies, leaders/boards, and departments.— Collaborated in a successful major organizational restructure, driving effectiveness/efficiencies. — Positively changed departmental culture increasing engagement and reducing turnover.— Led all leadership/employee training/learning/development, LMS system (including strategy development and implementation), elearning, (i.e, Rosetta Stone, Harvard, and Skillsoft). 360, HiPo, Mentoring, etc.— Led (from analysis and design through to development, implementation, and evaluation) numerous enterprise-wide training, learning, and organization development solutions including: ‘Diversity & Inclusion’ elearning, ‘Coaching for Performance,’ ‘Management Essentials,' 'Communicating with Impact,' 'Project Management,' 'Problem Solving,' 'Customer Focus,' etc.— Collaborated in competency development for leadership and employee competency models.— Led numerous departmental enhancements including: next generation of leadership development, overall LMS strategy, departmental branding, overall elearning strategy, measuring course effectiveness, branding/communication, enhanced project processes, strategic business partnering, business and financial acumen, high performing teams, annual needs assessment, global council, etc.— Managed over 35 vendor leaders/employees (including ten instructional designers; also sales, legal, coordinators, translators, printers, facilitators, etc.); Project led hundreds of internal leaders/employees and external vendor leaders/employees. — Vendor managed Achieve Global, PDI, Ken Blanchard, Rosetta Stone, Harvard Business, Skillsoft, etc.— Forecast/managed $200K development budget and $1.7M delivery budget.

Basking Ridge, Nj, Us

— One of three peers responsible for enterprise-wide leadership and employee training, learning, and organization development for a 190,000+ national workforce.— Led development/implementation of organization development strategy and co-led development/implementation of training, learning, and development strategy—in alignment with HR and Verizon business strategies, leaders/boards, and departments.— Contributed to Verizon being ranked first in learning and development globally; in the top 125 globally for over a decade. — Led (from analysis and design through to development, implementation, and evaluation) numerous enterprise-wide training, learning, and organization development solutions including: 100+ projects encompassing 20+ hrs. of high impact elearning, 300+ hrs. of effective instructor-led and leader-led training, and 2000+ pgs. of other extensive documents. — Increased enterprise-wide learning and application by raising course participation 201% across two years. Achieved through the development and implementation of a enterprise-wide communication plan for 27 courses.— Led competency development for leadership and employee competency models.— Enhanced 41 in-house and vendor-led programs including: vendor selection, contract negotiation and management, facilitator selection, master and train-the-trainer certification, budgeting, quality control, etc.— Led or co-led 19 team enhancing initiatives including: communications, templates, developer training, high performance team building, LCMS, performance consulting, Lean Six Sigma, strategic business partnering, etc.— Collaborated in a successful major organization restructure, driving effectiveness/efficiencies. — Managed over 40 vendor leaders/employees (including fifteen instructional designers; also sales, legal, coordinators, printers, facilitators, etc.); Project led hundreds of internal leaders/employees and external vendor leaders/employees.— Co-forecasted/managed 1.2M development budget.

New York, Ny, Us

— Responsible for enterprise-wide elearning and organization development for a 2000+ national workforce. — Led development/implementation of elearning strategy and co-led development/implementation of training/learning/organization development strategies—in alignment with HR and Chase/EMC Mortgage business strategies, leaders/boards, and departments.— Saved $249,000 in training delivery costs the first year and over $486,000 the second year.— Doubled elearning output by decreasing course development time from 3 – 6 months to just 1 – 1 1/2 months.— Increased enterprise-wide learning/application by raising online course usage from 70 to over 2850 annually (totaling 44% of all training deliverables) and online course completions from an industry average range of 10 – 60% to consistently over 90% of courses completed.— Improved enterprise-wide performance by consulting with leaders on 80+ organization development issues through assessment, performance gap analysis, cause analysis, solution selection/development/delivery, and re-assessment; Multiplied impact through developing leaders to apply organization development themselves.— Raised leadership/employee performance through leading and/or participating in 22 high impact initiatives: annual needs assessment, change management, cross training, guiding principles, ideal states, KPIs, knowledge management, LMS, lessons learned, meeting methods, process improvement, reward/recognition, team building, vendor management, vision/mission statements, etc.— Collaborated in a successful major organizational restructure, driving effectiveness/efficiencies. — Raised leadership/employee performance by leading design/development/delivery of 20 high impact elearning courses (16 hours total), eight enhancing online helps (180+ pages total), one extensive user’s guide (50+ pages) in the Information Mapping, Inc. (IMI) format.— Project led over 150 internal leaders/employees (including five instructional designers).

Master Of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Business Administration

Doctor Of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Education

Master'S Degree, Educational Leadership And Administration, General

Bachelor'S Degree, Education And Music

European Humanities