Hobbies / Passions
• Outdoor Activities - hiking, mountain biking,
camping, snowboarding
• Good Food – Avid cook (not a baker)
• Craft Beer – home brewer
• Fitness Enthusiast – ex-personal trainer
• Fantasy Football Champion – analytics
• Ping-Pong
• Personal Development
• PROSCI, FORT COLLINS, CO 8/15 – 2/17
Training Manager
Main Role Responsibility: To help coordinate, facilitate and deliver training programs to fortune 500 companies around the country pertaining to the art and skill of change management. Key Duties & Contributions
• Ensure a sufficient transfer of knowledge of the proper ways to assess, analyze, strategize, and develop successful change management plans via the Prosci Change Management Methodology and ADKAR.
• Assisted in over 50 Certification, Sponsor, Manager, and Employee Programs
• Served as the Change Manager on the Windows 10 Upgrade project with better than expected results. – fully adopted and utilized well before go-live date with cost mitigation over $20k.
• Served as the face of the organization at open enrollment and onsite programs.
• Responsible for lead identifying and cultivating. Lead my position in lead conversations, partially responsible for a quarter-million dollars of new business in 2016 and bringing on two new clients. Necessary Success Skill-Sets and Experience Gained
• Self-Motivator : knowledge of Salesforce and Microsoft Office : Facilitation skills : Public Speaking & Presentation Skills : Research Analytics : Work Alone & With Team : Learned from 11 Different Retired Executives : DISC Personality Types : Motivation & Leadership : Experience in HubSpot : Prosci Certified Change Practitioner
• BIG RED F RESTAURANT GROUP, BOULDER, CO 3/12 – 10/15 Front of House Floor Manager
Main Role Responsibility: To ensure company hospitality standards – teach and coach service and hospitality skills and techniques. Schedule. Payroll. Quick Problem Solving. Customer Satisfaction. Team Building. Leadership. Key Duties & Contributions
• Designed a work schedule that operated at a labor profit for the first time in over a year
• Maintained all managerial responsibilities during times of transition and operated at a profit
Denver, CO 630-***-**** ******.*.******@*****.*** linkedin.com/in/stevenkohnke STEVEN M. KOHNKE
Business-Savvy, change management professional with a business development and process-improvement mindset. Over three years of progressive entrepreneurial and professional work experience across a broad range of business capabilities, plus an additional four years of hospitality work. Proven quick learner with ability to analyze, adapt and thrive in any situation. Outcome-oriented with a well-developed sense of work ethic, leadership, change management and project management qualities to support any internal organizational change, go-to-market effort, or client relationship building effort. Areas of expertise include: BUSINESS STRATEGIST & CERTIFIED CHANGE MANAGEMENT PRACTITIONER o Change Management Strategy
o Productive Facilitation
o Leadership Training & Coaching
o Team Building
o Business Development
o DISC Profile Management
o Client & Customer Relations
o Communications Strategy
o Creative Project Design
o Business Plan Creating
o Public Speaking, Presentations
o Data Analysis (R)
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Other Experience
• Mobile Bartender (Garnish, LLC)
• Entrepreneur (College Works
Painting)
• Law Clerk (Segal McCambridge
Singer & Mahoney)
• Lead Generator (Cooper Heating &
Cooling)
Education
• University of Colorado at
Boulder
Degree: BA from Department
of Psychology and
Neuroscience
Graduation: May 2014