Work Experience

Sophia Genetics

Summary: 1,000 employees spread over 6 functional areas and 4 global locations. 

General Responsibilities: Drive, align, and elevate recruiting/Talent Attraction, end-to-end talent programs, performance, goal setting, learning and development, organizational culture and change, coaching and mentoring, DEI, employee engagement, and HCM/LMS/ECMS platform implementation/ administration.

Achievements:

• TBD (just started)

ZoomInfo

Summary: 3,500+ employees spread over 7 functional areas and 6 global locations. 

General Responsibilities: Drive, align, and elevate end-to-end talent programs, performance, goal setting, learning and development, organizational culture and change, coaching and mentoring, DEI, employee engagement, and HCM/LMS/ECMS platform implementation/ administration.

Achievements:

• Established a clearer and exciting program vision and mission
• Re-organized once disparate and even competing TM and L+D teams into a single, high-functioning, global T+L team (8 professionals spread over 4 global locations).
• Activated employee/leader support and rebuilt our program brand, making T+L a flagship of the ZoomInfo employer value proposition (EVP).
• Built 3 new, highly successful global leadership development programs (from IC to executive), each boasting exceptional enrollment and ratings.
• Elevated overall program enrollment by 5x across all programs and 10x across leadership programs. 
• Spearheaded several technical and product-focused boot camps and trainings for Engineering and Product teams.
• Catalyzed and supported numerous DEIB, allyship, ERG, and community building events across the global org.
• Reimagined the entire performance and goal setting philosophy/strategy and elevated overall participation in programs by over 40%.
• Built an entire onboarding program and platform including global orientation sessions, monthly new hire roundtables, manager and new hire onboarding playbooks, onboarding champion program, intranet hubs, seamless LMS enrollments, and feedback conduits.
• Led a successful Workday HCM (Workday) implementation, including the design, configuration, and implementation of the entire Talent tenet – performance, goals, succession, talent reviews/9-Box, and calibrations

SharkNinja

Summary: 3,000+ employees spread over 6 functional areas and 9 global locations. 

General Responsibilities: Drive, align, and elevate talent programs, performance, goal setting, learning and development, organizational culture and change, coaching and mentoring, DEI, employee engagement, and HCM/LMS/ECMS platform implementation/ administration.

Achievements: 

• Re-established the program vision and developed a roadmap for the entire talent and learning lifecycle (onboarding to leadership development to engagement)
• Built a new, stepwise leadership development program spanning IC to executive level. Pulled over 400 employees through the program in the first year.
• Built 7 new communication, project management, and product trainings.
• Built an org-wide mentorship program which enrolled over 25 mentors and almost 100 mentees. 
• Upraised total program enrollment from 80 enrollments in 2019 to over 1,400 enrollments in 2021.
• Led a team of 4 global talent and learning professionals

SGH

Summary: 1,000 employees spread over 5 functional areas and 9 US locations. 

General Responsibilities: Drive, align, and elevate talent programs, performance, goal setting, learning and development, organizational culture and change, coaching and mentoring, DEI, employee engagement, and HCM/LMS/ECMS platform implementation/ administration.

Achievements: 

• Catalyzed a deeper commitment for developing/engaging employees and cultivating culture. 
• Built seamless people processes, dozens of high-impact L&D programs/events, hundreds of digital learning resources, and an almost flawless learning tech platform/infrastructure. 
• Established yearly retreats and Boot Camps as the flagship of our talent attraction and retention strategy. 
• Created one of the most widely regarded talent ecosystems in the AEC industry (so successful in our philosophy, design, and implementation that the organization tripled its investment over 7 years).
• Created a replicable success model and set the standard for building learning programs in the AEC industry that even now, despite no longer working in the AEC industry, I continue to be called upon to write articles and serve as a presenter/panelist at AEC HR conferences.

GP Strategies

General Responsibilities: Lead ISD consultant with responsibility to build learning solutions for a broad portfolio of diverse clients. I led a team of talented instructional designers, e-Learning developers, trainers, and project managers. 

Achievements: Delivered hundreds of best-in-class OD, learning, and talent solutions.

· Sample Clients: Comcast, Campbell’s Soup, NBC, Bristol Myer Squibb, and Shire Pharmaceuticals

· Sample Solutions: Change management, new hire orientation, soft skills, presentation skills, business writing, executive coaching, mentoring, leader development, org. impact, train-the-trainer, LMS/HRM/HRIS implementations, and e-Learning