Jesse Kook acfyok@r.postjobfree.com 612-***-****

JESSE KOOK

Strategic Organizational Development and Talent Management Professional, MBA, SPHR

acfyok@r.postjobfree.com C: 612-***-**** T: 651-***-**** Website

AREAS OF EXPERTISE AND KEY SKILLS

Strategic Business Partner Talent Management Leadership Development Talent Acquisition

Change Management Organizational Development Performance Management Employee Relations

Communication Relationship Building Project Management Planning and Execution

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

Extremely motivated and accomplished senior organizational development leader with over 13 years experience leading and developing talent in constantly changing and dynamic environments. Robust experience leading evidence based organizational development interventions to identify highly effective organizational effectiveness solutions. Possess a talent and passion for leading change management initiatives that drive achievement of strategic business objectives. Innate ability to identify areas of opportunity for development of high potential employees and succession planning programs. Ability to quickly build relationships, partner with and provide organizational effectiveness consulting to senior business leaders.

KEY ACHIEVEMENTS AND ABILITIES

* Culture Development: Persuaded senior leaders to adopt a set of organizational values and desired behaviors that defined and established a culture and served as a basis for the entire talent management cycle.

* Performance Improvement: Led significant change management initiatives to transform the organization to focus on key performance indicators and metrics leading to identification and resolution of potential operational issues before they became problems.

* Succession Planning: Incorporated a complete talent management process used to identify high potential employees and development opportunities to gain a clear understanding of leadership ability and enable successful succession planning.

* Leadership and Executive Development: Instituted a highly effective leadership development program targeting improved employee engagement that resulted in the CEO making participation a performance measurement component for leaders. Program was recognized by a board member as, “one of the best [he’s] seen.”

* Performance Management: Overhauled a non-effective performance management process creating a new process that tied together performance reviews, employee development and the strategic goals and objectives of the organization.

* Talent Management and Talent Acquisition: Partnered with senior leaders to establish a talent management process emphasizing placement, development, rewards and recognition and succession planning ensuring the right talent in the right place at the right time.

* Organizational Design: Introduced a revised organizational design more clearly defining leadership roles at various levels to enable the organization to maintain focus on key performance indicators and drive for continuous improvement.

* Employee Engagement: Designed a complete employee engagement assessment process through the use of strategic surveys resulting in the identification of leadership development needs and root cause of issues related to employee engagement.

* Continuous Improvement: Established a scorecard allowing senior leaders to maintain visibility of key metrics that were critical in ensuring progress towards organizational goals and objectives continued.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

8/2007 – Present: Dedicated Logistics, Inc.

Director of Human Resources 10/2008 – present, Recruiting and HR Manager 8/2007 – 10/2008

* Top HR leader for a multi-state, multi-site organization, responsible for leading the entire HR cyclical process including organizational development, leadership development and change management initiatives.

* Led all organizational development interventions with a continuous drive towards organizational improvement.

* Provide leadership and development to a multi-state team of HR professionals.

* Responsible for implementing and leading change management initiatives targeted at supporting the organization’s strategic objectives. Partner with divisional senior leaders on the integration of HR strategy and business objectives.

10/2005 – 06/2007: Harold Zeigler Auto Group, General Manager

* Led day-to-day activities to ensure objectives and goals were being met, operation policies were being followed and all applicable laws and regulations were adhered to.

* Established and implemented daily operating procedures and talent management and development programs.

* Reviewed financial statements and developed a quarterly plan to maintain profitability and ensure operations were in the parameters of the budget.

* Aligned business needs with talent to facilitate long-term strategic objectives.

10/2000 – 10/2005: United States Army, Captain (commissioned officer)

* Partnered with team leadership and led the development of a completely new training plan for a team integrated into a new organizational structure within the Army. Training led to achieving the best training score of three platoons.

* Identified talent gaps and led the design of a training and development program to retrain a platoon of Armor soldiers to integrate with Infantry soldiers ending in a first place finish in a battalion platoon skills competition.

* Created threat updates and assessments providing the information needed to execute complex strategic operations.

* Turned around a non-functioning intelligence team by focusing on team member development and was personally distinguished by the commander as being the “best intelligence officer he’s worked with”.

EDUCATION

* MBA, Human Resources Management, Hamline University

* (SPHR) Senior Professional in Human Resources Certification

* BA Degree, Political Science, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse

* Disney’s® Selection, Training and Engagement Course, Disney University

* Workforce Staffing and Planning, Certificate, UMN

* Qualified Neutral, Hamline University

Military Training and Awards: ROTC Distinguished Military Graduate, US Army Officer Training (commandant’s list and top leader award), US Army Ranger School and Airborne School

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