LEARNING AND DEVELOPMENT EXECUTIVE

Solution-oriented Learning and Development Executive with vast experience in Fortune 100 companies for various global industries including senior leadership positions. Solid expertise leading teams in the creation, implementation, and facilitation of high impact enterprise-wide learning & development initiatives. Sought after coach, mentor, and master facilitator that can drive a comprehensive L&D strategy by promoting a culture of continuous learning, improving the employee experience, and enhancing workforce skills and capabilities. Core competencies include:

Strategic Human Resource Planning ~ Bilingual Facilitator (En/Sp) ~ Executive Coaching ~ Talent Assessment - Instructional Design ~ Blended Learning ~ Leadership Development ~ High Potential Development ~ Performance Management ~ Succession Planning ~ Change Agent ~ Gamification ~ Career Pathing ~ Team Building ~ Project Management ~ MS Office ~ Adobe Suite ~ Learning Management Systems ~ Vendor Management ~ Goal Setting ~ Individual Development Plans

SELECTED ACHIEVEMENTS

Enterprise impact reaching 4,500+ global employees enhancing workforce career skills during the Disney/20th Century Fox acquisition.

Strategized with the C-suite on improving leadership pipeline for 4,000 enterprise-wide employees preparing them to lead global multi-disciplinary teams at NBCUniversal.

Redesigned Southern California Edison’s leadership development strategy to academy style learning programs built to promote a culture of continuous learning.

Reimagined enterprise learning and development processes for a large Canadian oil & gas company increasing safety KPI’s for all of Western Canada’s 12,000 employees.

Impacted over 20K US Navy service members annually by developing and implementing an improved Navy-wide training plan and policy requiring on-site delivery of leadership programs reducing T&E expenditures fleet-wide.

PROFFESIONAL EXPERIENCE

20th Century Fox & The Walt Disney Company 2018-2019

Director of Organization Development and Training

Internal consultant, problem solver, and thought leader. Implemented nimble learning strategies to bring the best out of client groups by creating a culture of high-performance, people development, innovation, and collaboration. Led 2 direct reports and mentored the growth of an additional 5 team members.

Scaled a four-pillar career development program to over 4500 global employees. Led a matrixed team of 5 in developing content to empower workers to take control of their future during Disney acquisition.

Developed executives by coaching and advising them through Korn Ferry 360’s. Gave tough but supportive feedback helping leader’s grow in self-awareness, changing behavior, and increasing team engagement.

Trusted by senior leaders to facilitate the creation of action plans to maintain performance levels during company transition. Intact team change management workshops delivered solutions to deal with imminent acquisition.

Led the organizational design strategy for Fox contingent and non-regular workforce. The project will impact Disney’s post-acquisition synergy savings and labor forecasting.

Decreased turnover drastically for gaming client by developing a competency-based hiring strategy. Upskilled all business unit hiring managers to interview for cultural competencies and hire for fit.

Implemented strategy and led vendor selection for open enrollment courses designed to impact the career growth of over 1500 employees annually. Survey results were used to create Fox’s employee value proposition.

Increased capacity for leaders to have career conversations with employees during performance review. Rolled out coaching model to process and deliver conversation best practices to help increase employee engagement.

Comcast/NBCUniversal 2015-2018 Manager of Talent Development

Led West Coast team in all aspects of designing, building and implementing talent development programs and facilitating Best in Class corporate learning, leadership, and D&I initiatives to managers through executives, using blended learning, new technologies, shared platforms, and peer-to-peer learning. Led 4 direct reports.

Garnered executive sponsorship for six leadership development initiatives by building relationships with C-suite stakeholders, leveraging their expertise on critical business needs, and facilitating their vision for employees.

Increased leader’s financial acumen and decision making tools by developing a premier financial literacy program. Partnered with 15 CFO’s to deliver P&L business strategy bi-annually to over 500 directors and VP’s.

Provided guidance, oversight, and delivery for employee onboarding. Ensured the effective orientation and integration of over 1500 newly hired or promoted team members across the organization.

Partnered with internal clients and HR to develop, implement and deliver training and tools necessary to improve operational efficiency. Measured workforce insights through survey results, 360 feedback and needs assessments. This strategy raised enterprise-wide employee engagement survey scores year-over-year.

High impact on diversity while serving as a mentor to eight employee resource groups (ERG’s). Partnered with Diversity & Inclusion Council to develop a four-part leadership series for ERG leaders resulting in strong collaboration between groups and increased engagement from senior members.

Southern California Edison 2013-2015

Senior Leadership Development Program Manager

Directed the strategy, design, development, and delivery of leadership, and organizational programs using a 70/20/10 approach so that SCE had the developmental capabilities to meet current and future business objectives.

Delivered “learning culture” strategy to the Executive Learning Council by leveraging workforce analytics to support programmatic approach focusing on new and emerging leaders.

Increased leadership capabilities year over year by facilitating leadership workshops to over 2500 supervisors, managers and executives by building on previous programs and using experiential simulations.

Skilled facilitator sought out consistently for team building events, interventions, and offsite strategy sessions.

Haploos LLC, 2011-2013

Learning and Development Consultant

Led, coached, and trained a team of seven consultants on organization-wide change initiatives designed to help company maintain compliance standards while undergoing cultural shifts. Managed the executive expectations, design, content, implementation, sustainment, and combined $7.1 million-dollar budget.

Reduced project costs by 15%. Working closely with ops and HR, stop scope creep and leveraged existing processes. This strategy successfully influenced client buy-in and raised ROI by 23%

Exceeded organizational training goals and HSE requirements by partnering with 11 business units and implementing standardized training processes.

Established post-project evaluation survey finding the experiential training was successful in the company-wide increase of hazard reporting and accident mitigation by 23%.

Center for Naval Leadership, US Navy 2005-2011

Training Manager/Facilitator

Led a seven member team delivering full scale training and leadership development programs to 1100-person unit while also serving as a member of the Leadership Center of Excellence (COE) for the US Navy.

Instrumental in the learning and development of future front-line leaders. Facilitated over 3000 contact hours and trained 1500 students in leadership and diversity courses maintaining an 80% promotion rate.

Coached the professional growth and development of 20 direct reports certifying them all as Master Trainers.

Increased operational readiness from 53% to 92% over one year with 15% budget savings executing a workforce strategy for short and long-term organizational objectives.

EDUCATION

AMERICAN MILITARY UNIVERSITY, MA in Management (2013)

EXCELSIOR COLLEGE, BA in Human Resource Management (2008)

CERTIFICATIONS

Master Trainer ~ Leadership Facilitator ~ PHR ~ Certified Executive Coach (ICF) ~ The Hogan ~ KF 360 Multi-rater Assessment ~ Linkage (Change Management) ~ Myers-Briggs (MBTI) ~ The Birkman ~ DiSC ~ EQ 2.0 ~ CPI 260

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