Karen Newkirk - Essay & Scholarship Consultant, Change Management &
Resume:
KAREN NEWKIRK ESSAY AND SCHOLARSHIP CONSULTANT ENGLISH TUTOR
CHANGE MANAGEMENT LEAD COMMUNICATIONS GURU HR
EMPLOYEE ENGAGEMENT EXECUTIVE COACHING STRATEGIC PLANNER MEASUREMENT ANALYST TRIVIA NERD
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PROFESSIONAL HIGHLIGHTS
ESSAY and SCHOLARSHIP CONSULTANT/TUTOR Varsity Tutors 2021-present
• Provide comprehensive college admissions consulting, specializing in the Common Application, personal statements, and supplemental essays
• Advise students and families on strategic college selection aligned with academic goals, career pathways, and long-term educational planning
• Collaborate with families beginning as early as middle school to ensure readiness for each phase of the admissions process.
• Lead scholarship consulting efforts, helping students secure awards ranging from $1000 packages to tens of thousands of dollars including full rides. CHANGE MNGMNT & COMMUNICATIONS LEAD (Consultant) Apex Systems, Inc 2022 – 2023
• Manage change and communication, establish communication between and develop project strategy for stakeholders
• Establish change network to manage change effectively, collaborate with internal/external project team on communications
• Lead meetings with created PowerPoint presentations, participate in team leadership meetings
United Parcel Service Atlanta, GA
EMPLOYEE COMMUNICATIONS/CHANGE MANAGEMENT LEAD 2019 - 2022
• Received award for Leadership and award for Change Management Leader
• Change Management (CM) team, identification of areas of improvement across the Human Resources Transformation (HRT) project, manage CM network, facilitate global meetings leading change agents through the HRT, make presentations and recruit guest speakers, collaborate on presentation strategies and deliverables, organize, and upload digital content
• Establish change management process and strategy to navigate effective change
• Prepare organization for change through change management assessments
• Effective communications, support executive and stakeholder strategies, crisis communications
• Analyze data measurements and metrics of change process
• Strategic planning and project management of change process including implementation
• Encourage employee engagement in change processes, maintain positive relationships throughout change
• Manage change process and various impacts and mitigate risks
• Conduct surveys, focus groups to establish organizational readiness
• Coordinate with stakeholders and consultants, vendors, HRBPs, COEs, and PMO on change and HR transformation
• Facilitate meetings (virtual/in-person), webinars, town halls, and coach executive speakers, create communications to and from executive stakeholders
• Special project: Investigate and process employee concerns for HR EMPLOYEE COMMUNICATIONS CLIENT SUPERVISOR/MEASUREMENT ANALYTICS 2017 - 2019
• Support and manage clients: Human Resources, The UPS Foundation, and special projects
• Write and approve digital content via the CMS, speechwriter, article writer, proofreader, manage clients on various levels including upper management
• Create communication strategies for projects, project management.
• Communications Lead for IT Special Projects and Fundraisers, internal communications, business resource groups, communications for high-impact employee events
(management conference)
• SharePoint site manager, communicating across multiple channels
• Monthly measurement statistics and analytics dashboard of department sites, pages, and social media accounts including tracking sentiment
BUSINESS SYSTEMS ANALYST 2011 - 2017
• Serve as liaison between the business community and IT to create business documents by eliciting functional and business requirements.
• Coordinate global work sessions and meetings with programmers, developers, and project managers
• Conduct analysis and communicate with stakeholders regarding business needs
• Analyze processes for solutions and project milestones
• Create custom design documents for customers along with specifications requirements document
website
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Arts
Political Science/English
Spelman College Atlanta, GA
VOLUNTEERISM
WomanUp BOD
1yr
Volleyball Coach
2yrs
PTSA President
2yrs
PTSA Secretary
1yr
Girl Scout Cookie Manager
7yrs
United Way, Atlanta
11yrs
Project GROWTH
1yr
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
Change Management
Presentation Skills
Internal Communications
Training Development
HR Strategic Planning
Measurements & Statistics
Teaching (Adults/Children)
CORE PROFICIENCIES
C-Suite Townhalls
CMS/LMS
Internal and Corporate
Communications
Speech Writing
BA Analyst
QA Analyst
Technical Writing
Technical Training
Employee Concerns
Special Projects
AWARDS
Leadership Excellence Award
Distribution (LEAD)
Change Management Leader Award
Company-wide marketing slogan contest,
Top 10 winner
Building-wide marketing slogan contest,
Winner
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