THE EXECUTIVE EDGE® - Key Persons
Ashley and her husband, artist Bradley Wegner, live and work in Winter Park, Florida. Avocations include extensive domestic and world travel, photography, reading, and strategies for abundant health, wellness and energy. She has aspirations one day to become a Master Gardener. Until then, her focus is tending a backyard filled with dozens of plants indigenous to Africa that flourish in Florida. The idea of helping both people and plants thrive in adverse conditions - and in healthy climes - is a common theme in Ashley's professional and personal life.
With over 20 years of experience in leading change management, strategic planning, organizational design, 360 feedback, mentoring, employee engagement, team development, process re-engineering, succession planning and executive coaching initiatives, Colette routinely works with Fortune 500 clients and their executive teams to design and implement organizational and leadership development initiatives with the sole purpose of producing tangible, measurable business results.
Experience and Expertise
Prior to joining The Executive Edge®, Colette held executive, leadership, and organizational development positions within the Fortune 500 arena on a national and global platform. Colette was responsible for coaching and developing middle-to executive level leaders, organizational transformation initiatives, the creation of end-to-end diversity education and branding strategies, as well as the design of several corporate university programs and their supporting systems including customized assessments, individualized and team competency inventories, instructional design and delivery, and partnering with senior leaders to integrate and develop core competencies in tandem with the company vision. Colette's key areas of expertise include:
Design and implementation of strategic HR services
Design and implementation of culture change solutions
Design and implementation of succession management systems
Design and implementation of leadership and organizational development processes
Utilizing her academic training and practical experience, Colette has a keen talent for designing end-to-end OD strategies that align with the company's overall business strategy, succession planning, and leadership development initiatives. Her consultative approach includes partnering with leaders at all levels of the organization to identify and address talent management opportunities and developing action plans to close identified gaps.
A proponent of the whole systems methodology, each project she manages includes organizing key job performance indicators, creating reliable measurement systems to assist management in identifying superior performance, designing and managing organization needs assessments to determine the skill and competencies needed to drive the business strategy, serving as an assessor of management performance capabilities to identify fit for current and future roles, assisting the organization in managing the structural and cultural changes manifested by expansion and pressures on earnings, consulting with various business units (ie., finance, marketing, operations, IT, etc.) to determine "best-fit" learning and execution strategies.
She has worked with numerous clients including WR Grace, United Airlines, Ameritech , KPMG, SecurityLink, Comcast Cable, Walt Disney World, Ernst & Young, Productivity Point International, Firemen's Fund, Allianz, DJ Ortho, Thoratec, DeVry University, Wycliffe USA, Monterey Peninsula Hospitals, Jamba Juice, FASS Credit, Alain Pinel Realtors, The Kaleidoscope Group, US Forest Service, Macy's East, and Ross Stores.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Executive
- Capital Consultant
Role
David is an accomplished human capital consultant combining talent management, compensation, labor relations, technology, organizational design and implementation expertise. David has over 25 years' experience working in both internal and external roles in mid-markets, global Fortune 500 organizations as well as Board experience. David works with individuals and teams to deliver large, complex projects that help organizations realize the full value of their human capital as well as with individuals as an executive coach and consultant to help them progress in achieving their career and business goals. David effectively partners with all levels of clients, from managers to executives, to develop solutions that address their business needs.
Experience and Expertise
Prior to his affiliation with The Executive Edge®, David was the Head of Human Resources and a Corporate Officer for Gentherm, 2012-2014 listed in Fortune Magazine as one of the fastest growing publically traded companies. Before that he was employed by CertainTeed Corporation, a subsidiary of Saint-Gobain, a leading Fortune 100 building materials company, as the Head of Human Resources and an Officer of the Corporation. David was responsible for Human Resources including the development of CertainTeed's nationally recognized integrated succession planning - leadership development framework, creating a sales coaching initiative to optimize sales representative time driving enhanced revenues and margins and helped to spearhead a $1.2B international merger integration and subsequent cultural transformation initiative. David's key areas of expertise include:
Identifying, creating and implementing human capital solutions that benefit the business
Integrating talent assessment, succession planning and leadership development
Creating results oriented compensation (merit, incentive, stock) programs
Driving successful strategic labor relations with multinational and domestic unions
Facilitating senior leadership, Board and management groups
Implementing quality and performance improvement programs
Interim Head of Human Resources for fast growing organizations
David has spent his career assisting organizations in transforming themselves by creating strategic focus and then aligning the design of their organizations and systems to carry out this focus. He has done extensive executive coaching and change work in start-ups, existing organizations, and mergers across numerous industries. David uses his strong business acumen as a way of building solutions that engage business leaders and help clients create and implement sustainable initiatives to overcome the issues that challenge them.
He has worked with numerous organizations and clients including EMC, Abbott Laboratories, Pfizer, Ingersoll Rand, CertainTeed Corporation, Saint Gobain, Gentherm and Truck Hero and DeVry Corporation.
David has authored chapters in three books, had a paid web column for AAAS and IEEE (largest scientific and engineering professionals' societies) since 2008 which has been translated into multiple languages, David has also presented extensively on the topics of leadership development, career management, and reward and incentive compensation.
David, his wife, and their two sons like to spend time attending concerts, watching sports and hiking near their home in Novi, MI; a suburb northwest of Detroit.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Executive
- Member of Forbes Coaches Council
- Strategic Talent Developer
Dr. Kimberly Jarvis is a strategic talent developer with over 20 years' experience in career and leadership development coaching with individuals and groups from diverse backgrounds and industries. Leveraging her leadership experience in several different industries, Kimberly creates and delivers customized organizational, leadership and talent development initiatives aimed at improving individual and team performance and engagement. Kimberly's mission is to support leaders and teams with exceptional productivity and performance through practical strategies to enhance leadership, emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills. She specializes in implementing large-scale programs and initiatives geared toward people development.
Experience and Expertise
Kimberly has extensive experience with executive and career coaching, leadership development, group facilitation, team building and conflict management. She is known for her ability to prototype, create and launch large-scale programs focused on career and leadership development that impact audiences in the thousands. Kimberly is an adjunct professor for the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Distance Education Program. Her additional areas of expertise include:
Executive coaching
Talent development
Accelerated leadership development
Culture shaping at the team and organizational level
Career transitions
Online learning and development
Kimberly has worked with a diverse group of clients including The American Management Association, Compass, Discover Financial Services, Edusystems, Geneva Lakes Family YMCA, Home Centered Care Institute (HCCI), and International Little Artists. Kimberly contributes to industry publications and is writing a chapter of the book accompanying a new leadership certificate program being launched by The American Management Association.
Dr. Jarvis is an official member of Forbes Coaches Council, an invitation-only organization for successful business and career coaches. Kimberly's leadership and career advice has been featured in Forbes, Barron's, CNBC, Vogue and Moneyish.
Role
Dr. Ray is an accomplished executive who uses his broad experience in leadership and management to assist business leaders with issues and challenges related to leadership, structure, and execution at all organizational levels. Ray has over 35 years in both public and private sectors, large to small organizations, non-profit organizations, and municipal government. Dr. Ray has led teams that deliver large, complex projects to help organizations realize the full value of their financial, social, and community capital. Ray effectively partners with all levels of clients, from managers to executives, to develop solutions that address their specific business needs.
Experience and Expertise
Prior to joining The Executive Edge®, Ray has spent his career assisting organizations in transforming themselves by creating strategic focus and then aligning the organizational design and systems to execute on this focus. He has done change management work and coaching in start-ups, existing organizations, and mergers in several industries. Ray facilitates high involvement to build ownership and helps his clients think differently about the issues they face. Ray has presented extensively on the topics of leadership and management and is presently working on several publications.
Dr. Ray completed a distinguished military career, retiring in 1996 in the grade of Colonel. Dr. Ray served in numerous leadership and staff assignments within the US Air Force and the Department of Defense (DoD). Dr. Ray developed a diversity of talents as an educator, professional recruiter, logistician, HR director, chief financial officer, chief operating officer, senior strategic planner, and executive director of one of the first Department of Defense regional health systems and managed care plans. Dr. Ray's reputation as a change leader placed him in many challenging assignments, including the post-Cold War restructuring of the military services, the planning and execution of major infrastructure changes resulting from base realignments and closures, and the transformation of the Military Health Services System into an integrated military-civilian partnership.
Dr. Ray's return to civilian life placed him in corporate transformation efforts within four medium-to-large companies. Dr. Ray directed field operations in two states for a management services organization responsible for executing a multi-year, multi-billion dollar DoD managed care support contract. He subsequently led a total company transformation within the dental division of a major healthcare insurance company and a major internal departmental transformation in a large Chicago academic medical center. Dr. Ray has been consulting since 2005 serving the needs of leaders seeking to build high-performing, character-based organizations. Dr. Ray's key areas of expertise include:
Facilitating senior leadership and management groups, especially those focused on strategic development
Guiding change management initiatives with cross-functional teams
Guiding organizational transformations, including business models, leadership development, organizational culture, knowledge creation and management, and operational practices
Designing interactive workshops and experiential learning activities
Deploying large scale organizational learning and change initiatives
Facilitating senior leadership and management groups
Implementing quality and performance improvement programs
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Executive
- Member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority
Role
Regina provides executive coaching to help leaders effectively lead in the 21st century and beyond. Regina employs 360-degree feedback to customize strategy to develop and strengthen the leaders' effectiveness to lead. In addition, Regina provides tools and resources to assist leaders in navigating through the many challenges and changes leaders face in their daily operations of directing their teams, divisions, departments, and the organization. Regina, through her one-on-one Executive Coaching, has successfully expanded leaders' capacity while elevating the leaders' leadership effectiveness.
Regina is a highly sought out speaker and renowned throughout the country as a prolific and transformative lecturer, keynote and public speaker. She has shared the platform with former NFL Coach the late Tom Landry, and former Chicago Bears Coach Mike Ditka, to name a few. She has an impeccable ability to connect with her audience and leave them inspired and challenged. In addition, she has spoken at college commencement ceremonies-corporate and non-profit events.
Experience and Expertise
Regina has extensive experience as a higher education administrator. Regina's career in higher education includes leadership roles at the University of North Texas, Northern Illinois University, West Virginia University, and DeVry University. She has served in a plethora of leadership roles from Women's Basketball Recruiting Coordinator, Academic Dean, Campus Dean, and Regional Dean. She hired, developed, and managed leaders across campuses in California, Florida, North Carolina, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. As Dean of Business Administration, she led the School of Business Administration through extensive growth from 125 students to 800 students (540% increase). She worked with numerous accreditations- Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges and Higher Learning Commission accreditation.
Regina's Key areas of expertise include:
Leadership Development for executive and emerging leaders that lead departments or divisions
Facilitation of Leadership Development curriculum for executive and emerging leaders
One on one executive Coaching
Team Development
Organizational culture that will yield high levels of efficiency and success
Creating capability around organizational change management and organization design within her client organizations.
Creating Talent Management Strategies with a clear roadmap for successful implementation.
Designing and implementing HR programs.
Curriculum Design/facilitation of executive leadership development coursework
Areas of expertise include Emotional intelligence, managing across generations, leading through others, conflict management, change management, visionary leadership, agile leadership, leading with data, leading from the core, building high performing teams, decision making, crisis leadership, strategic thinking, and planning.
Regina is a highly sought out speaker and renowned throughout the country as a prolific and transformative lecturer, keynote, and public speaker. She has shared the platform with former NFL Coach the late Tom Landry, and former Chicago Bears Coach Mike Ditka, to name a few. She has an impeccable ability to connect with her audience and leave them inspired and challenged. She has spoken at college commencement ceremonies-corporate and non-profit events.
Regina earned her Bachelor's degree in Business Administration degree and Master of Education from the University of North Texas, and Doctor of Philosophy in Organizational Leadership from Regent University. She also earned the Wainwright Coaching Certification, the 360 Leadership Assessment Certification from the Center for Creative Leadership, and the Forte' Communication Certification from The Forte's Institute.
Regina is a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated where she has held numerous leadership positions at the local, regional, and international level. She is also a member of the Links, Incorporated and has held numerous leadership positions at the local level. She has served on numerous non-profit boards in leadership positions, such as board President and leading capital campaigns. She currently serves on the Nicholtown Child and Family Collaborative Board.
Role
A seasoned corporate leader and successful management consultant, Ashley Allen approaches coaching and facilitation with the mind of a strategist. She has more than 20 years' experience as an executive in strategic planning, corporate communications, project management and marketing. Add to that proven expertise and a true passion for developing strong, resilient leaders, and wide-ranging coaching and mentoring experience. Equally at ease with high-achieving entrepreneurs, corporate executives and high-potential managers, her energetic, engaging style makes goal clarification, development planning and meaningful personal enhancement both an enjoyable and successful process.
Experience and Expertise
Prior to joining The Executive Edge®, Inc., Ashley held business-unit executive positions within Tribune Company focusing on such diverse functions as new business development, corporate communications, and strategic and scenario planning. She served as a spokesperson for several years, honing her skills in communication, issues management, media relations and messaging. She has a rich background in complex, results-focused project management and product development. A proponent of community building as a leadership-development tool, she has helped numerous executives advance their leadership presence - and build important networks - through strategic community involvement and nonprofit-board participation. Her passion for creating high-performing teams and helping people discover, develop and leverage their core strengths led her to pursue leadership and executive coaching, consulting, training and facilitation. She inspires both clarity and confidence in her clients, helping them achieve at their very highest levels.
Ashley's key areas of expertise include:
Executive leadership coaching (typically C-Suite, Executive/Group Vice Presidents, Vice Presidents, Directors)
Personal and team transformation
Strategic thinking, goal clarification, planning and project management
Executive presence, personal branding and effective communication
Workshop development and facilitation designed to build resilient, high-performing teams
Facilitation of strategic and operational planning processes
Ashley helps her clients focus clearly on issues and opportunities - and act on them effectively. Whether coaching, consulting or facilitating, Ashley asks the right questions, and engages her clients in far-ranging conversations that lead to creative, actionable, on-target solutions.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Executive
- Leader in the Field of Training
Role
Gail is an innovative leader in the field of Training and Organizational Development. She has over 20 years of experience combining both e-learning with leadership development to create high performing work teams. Using blended learning techniques, she is able to integrate all forms of training to develop knowledge and understanding inside individuals of what they are expected to do. Then by consulting with leadership she ensures the processes and systems are in place to increase efficiency and productivity and ensure that employees can easily apply this knowledge to their work on the job. Her passion is to develop managers into leaders and then into their employees' coach, by focusing attention on how to best use an employee's area of strengths. She has experience in the creation of performance management tools, high value employee identification, succession planning and extensive instructional design expertise.
Experience and Expertise
Gail has extensive leadership development experience working at United Airlines for over 25 years. The variety of her roles included direct interface with all of the front-line employee leaders, specifically emphasizing her experience with change management. She used her analytical skills to conduct needs assessments and then applied instructional design skills to develop the necessary programs that took the company through several major transitions such as becoming a global carrier and managing with fewer resources after a major reduction in flying as a direct result of 9/11. She consistently used project management techniques to lead several key initiatives including facilitating a strategic focus on the most cost effective ways to outsource and transition responsibilities between employee work groups as they exited from bankruptcy in 2004.
Gail continued expanding her executive coaching technique at the Alliant Credit Union by becoming certified by Gallup as a Strengths Coach. She helps others identify their innate talents and strengths and explores the following questions:
What do you do best?
How can you take your life and enhance it?
How could you have made that task easier?
The strength-based philosophy that she brings works best with those who are willing to risk betting their life on their strengths, because they also realize the risks of not doing so are far greater. She believes that using your strengths is the key to your personal engagement and success.
Gail also possesses extensive instructional design and facilitation experience. There is always a focus on relating any training experience to a company's bottom line. She is able to further coordinate and leverage team transformation and help companies achieve breakthrough success. With a special emphasis on executive coaching engagements, Gail helps a leader reach the next level in their career. She has worked with numerous clients including DeVry University, Bel Brands, Publicis Groupe: Resources, United Airlines, Alliant Credit Union, Sara Lee, PromoWorks, St. Luke's Medical Center, BP, Navistar and many entrepreneurs as they built their independent businesses.
Gail lives in the western suburbs of Chicago and likes tennis and skiing. She, her husband and two adult children enjoy water sports and are all certified scuba divers.
Job Titles:
- Senior Consultant
- Executive Coach and Organizational Consultant
Role
Janet Blum is a highly experienced executive coach and organizational consultant specializing in individual coaching, change management and team development. She is recognized for her expertise in creating partnerships with her clients based on trust, openness, honest feedback and integrity. Janet emphasizes helping individuals and teams reach their business objectives by assisting them in identifying goals, recognizing and addressing strengths and weaknesses, and developing strong relationships and clear processes.
Experience and Expertise
Janet's experience is broad-based and she has successfully served clients at all levels of organizations. Her client list, which reflects her extensive multi-industry knowledge, includes: DeVry; Allstate Insurance; Federal Home Loan Bank (Seattle and Indianapolis); Discover Card Services; Kemper Corporation; Tribune Company; Kraft Foods. Additionally, Janet has worked with non-profit organizations such as: The Museum of Science and Industry, The Night Ministry, and the Gateway Foundation. Her particular skills and expertise include:
Executive Coaching
360 Degree Feedback
Team Coaching and Development
Conflict Resolution and Team Intervention
Leadership Development
Meeting / Program Facilitation
Change Management
Mentoring
Diversity and Inclusion Coaching and Consulting
Janet lives in Chicago's northern suburbs with her husband and children. In her free time Janet enjoys running, yoga, and spending time with her family. She has been involved in her local school system by serving as a member of the local school board caucus, which interviewed prospective school board candidates and selected a slate of those most qualified to serve on the school board.
Role
Jeffrey's dynamic approach to personal development and change is demonstrated in his 20+ years as a global facilitator, coach and consultant. As an experienced leader, he applies his personal experiences in working with both Corporate America and non-profit organizations. He works with leaders to affect personal and professional change within themselves, their leadership and their organizations. Jeffrey has worked with all levels of leadership ranging from senior level executives to front-line supervisors. One of his unique attributes is his recognized knowledge and understanding of generational differences within today's workplace and leadership styles.
Experience and Expertise
In addition to his 17 years with United Airlines, Jeffrey has supported a range of industries including the automotive, banking, customer service, health care, government, hospitality, pharmaceutical, education-college/university, hospitality, pharmaceutical, and technology sectors. His international experience spans the globe and includes team training, leadership coaching, and customer service training in Canada, Europe, Asia, India, Mexico, South America, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE--Abu Dhabi). He has managed large-scale leadership, change and customer service initiatives. Jeffrey's key areas of expertise include:
Executive coaching and facilitating leadership skills training for all levels of leadership
Team building to improve individual and team performance, processes, and results
Aligning generational differences to improve teamwork and communication
Designing interactive seminars and learning activities to improve performance and accountability
Dynamic and interactive presentation and facilitation skills
Jeffrey's has additional experience in corporate culture change, start-up and launch of global products and initiatives, as well as continuous improvement processes. He has provided formal and informal executive coaching and change management work with Fortune 500, mid-size, and small businesses including union and non-union workforces.
Jeffrey is a Midwesterner at heart having been raised in Iowa. He has been in Chicago for 19 years and loves to spend his free time with his dog, boating on Lake Michigan, and attending Iowa football games.
Job Titles:
- Coach
- Consultant
- Executive
- Senior Human Resources Executive and Officer of Several Fortune 500
Role
Josette is an accomplished executive coach and organization effectiveness consultant, specializing in taking already successful business leaders and their teams to the next level of performance. Josette has over 25 years experience working in both internal and external roles within global Fortune 500 organizations. Her highly successful career as a corporate executive and business owner includes experience in the wholesale, retail, financial services, professional services, healthcare, manufacturing, communications, technology, telecommunications, advertising, media, and marketing industries, as well as academia. Josette's diverse experience equips her to ask the questions that business leaders need to answer to reach the next level of performance. Josette effectively partners with all levels of clients, from managers to executives, to develop solutions that address their specific business needs.
Experience and Expertise
Josette has served as a senior human resources executive and officer of several Fortune 500 global companies, including American Express, Household International, Enesco Group Inc. and Trizec Properties. Josette challenges leaders to understand every aspect of their company, evaluate what makes them and their organization unique, and leverage the talents of each individual team member. Her top-down approach to coaching has a cascading affect on the entire organization. When employees see their leaders re-energized and armed with the fundamentals of leadership, teamwork and personal effectiveness, the whole company and its bottom line grows. Josette's key areas of expertise include:
Developmental Coaching - Coaching leaders who want to reach the next level in their career
Leadership/High Potential Coaching - Working with corporations to develop a succession plan
Team Transformation - Assessing strengths and weaknesses within a company's team and strategizing on how to capitalize on the strengths, to limit the weaknesses, and to build a company's bottom line
Facilitating senior leadership and management groups - including strategic planning meetings
Facilitating communication and presentation skills training for leadership
Assessments and analysis - Helping the client work on development and talent retention
Josette has spent her career focusing organizations on aligning priorities, systematically developing goals and action plans, and inspiring leaders' passion for excellence. Josette's persuasive and collaborative style supports rapid resolution of business issues and productive relationships. She has demonstrated success in assisting her clients meet their financial and operational goals by focusing on analysis, planning, and execution.
She has worked with numerous clients including Whirlpool, Disney/ABC, CF Industries, Adventist Midwest Hospital, CDW, Edward Jones, GCG Financial, Kohls Retail Stores, Lake Forest Academy, The Marketing Store, US Cellular, RLL Associates, Multiform Fitness, Bridges Court Reporting, DeVry University, University of Chicago, Red Box, and CF Industries.
Josette has spoken extensively on the topics of leadership and management, including multi-generational differences in the workplace, managerial courage, executive presence and impactful communication.
Josette is a graduate of DePaul University. She is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), Human Resources Management Association of Chicago (HRMAC), and the Society of Human Resources Management (SHRM). She is an active mentor to executives nationally that are affiliated with Healthcare Businesswomen's Association (HBA), Professional Women's Club of Chicago (PWCC), and Menttium. She holds both a Senior Professional Human Resources (SPHR) and SHRM - Senior Certified Professional (SHRM - SCP) designation. She also holds a certification from the International Business Coaching Institute (IBCI). She has served as a mentor for the DePaul School of New Learning. She has cofounded, and led several business networking groups. She is on the President's Council of Almost Home Kids.
Josette, her husband, and their three children like to spend time skiing, scuba diving, and playing music in the northwest suburbs of Chicago. Josette also enjoys hiking, dancing and golfing.
Role
Experience and Expertise
Prior to joining The Executive Edge®, Kay acquired a broad base of experience working with all levels within an organization, executive to front-line leaders, in telecommunications, technology, business support services, education, healthcare and non-profit organizations. Additionally, she has over 10 years experience in key line and staff positions within the AT&T/SBC/Ameritech Corporation. Key positions have included roles as Director of Organizational Learning and Director Executive Leadership and Development. Kay's areas of expertise include:
Organization Effectiveness Consulting
Executive Coaching
Leadership Development and Training
Change Management
Line Operations Management
Kay holds a B.A. from National Louis University. She has completed the Coaches Training Institute Co-Active Coaching program and Newfield's Coaching Excellence in Organizations program. She is a member of the International Coaching Federation (ICF), Human Resources Management Association Chicago (HRMAC), International Leadership Association (ILA), and the Organization Development Network (ODN).
Kay and her fiancee reside in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. Kay enjoys spending time with family and pursues her interests in walking, dancing, boating and fishing.
Kim Ramsey - Founder, President
Role
Kim Ramsey is the President and Founder of The Executive Edge®, Inc., a niche national consulting firm that specializes in accelerating the growth of organizations, teams and their leaders. She has over 25 years of experience in strategic planning, executive coaching, executive team development, accelerated leadership development strategy, change management, organizational design, 360 feedback, mentoring, design of performance management systems and more. She routinely works with Fortune 500 clients and their executive teams to design and implement organizational and leadership development initiatives resulting in tangible business improvements.
Prior to founding The Executive Edge®, Inc., Kim led Executive and Leadership Development at the AT&T/Ameritech Institute where she was responsible for coaching and developing the corporation's most senior executives across North America. She received national recognition by the Corporate Leadership Council, Linkage Inc., ASTD and the International Productivity and Quality Council (IPQC) for her "best practices in developing & retaining high potential talent." She also led Organizational Development and Leadership Development for ACNielsen's North American business. In addition, her experience included leading the Human Resources organization for SONY's Consumer Electronics Group for the Midwest Region and a start-up operation in Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. She has held additional leadership positions at Harris Corporation and the Tribune Company overseeing the executive leadership and organizational development efforts for 26 business units across the country.
Experience and Expertise
Kim's key areas of expertise include:
Facilitation of Board and senior leadership team alignment sessions to determine the desired strategic direction, corporate culture and/or leadership behaviors required to execute the business strategies. Keynote speaking - Aligning Generational Differences, Strategy in Action, What Does it Take to be "High Potential? Executive Presence
Designing and facilitating large-scale organizational/culture transformation initiatives
Executive and high-potential coaching (Typically CEO's, Executive/Group Vice-Presidents and Vice-Presidents)
Design and facilitation of strategic planning processes which result in a long-range vision and breakthrough strategies which can propel business growth through laser-beam focus.
Development of high potential leadership development and talent management strategies at the corporation- level designed to aggressively develop talent to be ready for mission critical positions
Leadership development strategy and total curriculum design
Kim has spent her career partnering with organizations in transforming themselves by creating strategic focus and then aligning the design of their strategy, organizational structures and talent necessary to succeed. She has done executive coaching and change work in start-ups, fix-its and mergers across numerous industries. Kim uses her strong business acumen as a way of building solutions that engage business leaders and help clients create and implement sustainable culture initiatives to overcome the issues that challenge them. Kim has presented at numerous conferences including the International Quality and Productivity Center, Leadership Development Congress, Society of Human Resources Management, Linkage, American Press Institute, Women in Communication, Women in Wireless, Best Practices HRD Conference, American Society for Training and Development and the Midwest Training Conference.
Role
Kimberly is a consummate executive coach with over 20 years of experience in Organizational Development, Leadership & Employee Training, Instructional Design, and Project Management. Throughout her career she has demonstrated the ability to design and drive strategies and culture change required to achieve business objectives. Kimberly facilitates business growth by leveraging her diverse business experiences which includes business analysis, strategic planning and executive coaching. Combining these talents has helped organizations realize their investment in three areas: people, processes and systems. Her learning approach encompasses a total integration of all three and as a result brings about effective organizational change.
Experience and Expertise
Kimberly has served as senior learning executive and consultant for several fortune 500 companies including Heath Care Services Corporation, Information Architects and AT&T. Prior to joining The Executive Edge®, Kimberly credits her success to her leadership and learning philosophies. She believes that every person is a 360 degree leader capable of developing their influence from anywhere in the organization. She believes lifelong learning is a fundamental and necessary responsibility of every employee. Kimberly believes this will foster long-term change and establish a learning culture. Kimberly embraces education, training, and coaching at all levels. She encourages all employees to be responsible to for their own development and to take advantage of formal company sponsored training, college courses, e-learning opportunities, seminars, conferences and informal learning events to broaden their perspective, skills, knowledge, and abilities. Kimberly's key areas of expertise include:
Facilitating senior leadership & management coaching programs
Deploying large scale curriculum development programs
Designing interactive, integrated and experiential learning programs
Implementing quality control and return on investment through project management
Fostering organizational growth through succession planning
JKimberly has spent her career challenging leaders to move beyond their limits and envision limitless possibilities. She has provided executive coaching and organizational development in business start-ups, and existing organizations in numerous industries such as Education, Government (state/ local), Human Resources, Insurance, Medical, Publishing, Retail, Telecommunication, and Transportation.
She has worked with numerous clients including Allstate, Ameritech, Apostolic Church of God, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Chicago Building Department, Chicago Transit Authority, City of Chicago, Citywide Colleges of Chicago, Covad, DeVry University, Grainger, Hewitt, Kaplan University, Roosevelt University, Ross Stores, Ross University, State of Illinois, TriServ Inc, University of Illinois Hospital, Unext, United Airlines, University of Illinois, and Urban Ministries Inc.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Executive
- Expert
Role
Mark Harris is an expert at helping companies create and maintain a high-performing workforce. He brings a strategist's sensibility and coach's enthusiasm to his work. Most importantly, Mark engages employees in the process of becoming better communicators, team contributors and leaders. He is a versatile consultant who brings passion and wisdom to his clients. Mark interacts with all levels of an organization from line staff to corporate executives. He possess the experience and personality to gain the trust of all those around him and is adept at maneuvering thru various political cultures.
Experience and Expertise
Mark has over 20 years of experience contributing to the success of organizations such as Allstate, CVS/Caremark, Leo Burnett, Forsythe Technologies, Sears, Draft/FCB, True Value and a variety of universities and nonprofits. He partners with clients to improve the effectiveness of employees at all levels of the company through customized human resource consulting, executive coaching and organizational development programs.
Companies request Mark time and time again, citing his innovative, practical solutions and creative approaches. His expertise includes:
Communication Skills
Customer Satisfaction
Diversity and Inclusion
Emotional Intelligence
Executive Coaching
Executive Retreats
Leadership Development
Presentation Skills
Relationship Building
Team Building
Mark is a graduate of Indiana University. He holds an MBA in Human Resource Management from Temple University and a Master's Degree in Clinical Social Work from the University of Wisconsin. All degrees were with Honors. He prides himself in developing talent through long-standing relationships with his clients.
Mark is a frequent guest lecturer at colleges and industry events across the U.S. and abroad. He is a past president of the Chicagoland Chapter of the American Society for Training & Development (CCASTD) and is a member and former board member of the Human Resource Management Association of Chicago (HRMAC). He is frequently involved in networking and relationship building associations.
Job Titles:
- Coach
- Executive
- Senior Consultant
We partner with some of the best managed companies in the world to make them even better, and we'd welcome the opportunity to work with you to do the same.
Role
Mary is a seasoned executive coach based in Orlando, Florida. She works successfully with experienced and high potential leaders who want to stretch beyond their comfort zone and positively impact their future.
With years of experience as a coach, mentor, facilitator, leader and trainer, Mary sees clients in ways they do not see themselves. She is adept at unlocking individual excellence. Mary listens intently, dips below the surface, and helps clients realize their full potential. Clients appreciate her calm, candid approach, probing questions and unique insights that lift their thinking and expand their perspectives
Experience and Expertise
Prior to joining The Executive Edge®, Mary has spent 13 years coaching executives and business owners to strengthen their influence within their organizations. She is passionate about working with leaders who view themselves as more introverted than extroverted. For years she has helped executives realize what they carry within them is even more powerful than they thought. They communicate more effectively, fine turn their interpersonal skills and further develop their leadership behaviors, capitalizing on their reflective insight as a real power source. Her motto is "Elevate the leader in you."
Mary has worked with leaders in a variety of industries to improve their executive presence, minimize their negative assumptions about themselves and others, and develop better relationships with their leaders, peers, direct reports and customers. Her clients have built stronger teams, improved employee engagement, and communicated and acted on their vision for success with greater ease. She enjoys working with those who want to build their competencies and create a more productive culture.
Mary is a distinguished mentor for WOMEN Unlimited, Inc., helping high-potential women in business achieve their goals. She facilitates the Network of the Top 50 Companies for Working Families in Central Florida, which she founded in 1997. For years, she was a feedback coach for Embracing Leadership Excellence at the Crummer Graduate School of Business, Rollins College in Winter Park, Florida.
Mary spent 15 years in Human Resources management at the Orlando Sentinel newspaper where she improved company-wide communication, introduced culture-changing programs, enhanced employee development practices, and successfully managed many company-wide projects and teams. Her strong listening and coaching skills enabled leaders to overcome multiple challenges.
Mary lives her passion and purpose - helping people visualize their possibilities, realize their potential, and take action to achieve their professional and personal life goals.
Mary enjoys traveling with her husband, Jack, an architect. She relaxes by reading, walking and yoga. She is an Advisory Council member for Neighbors Network, a non-profit that helps adults remain living independently in their own homes. Having cared for her mother with Alzheimer's disease for 10 years she learned what it takes to be a successful caregiver. She shared that knowledge and expertise by speaking to caregiver groups and co-chairing the local leadership council of the Central & North Florida chapter of the Alzheimer's Association. She is a Team Leader for the Family, Friends & Chicken Soup ministry at St. Margaret Mary Catholic Church in Winter Park, Florida.
Job Titles:
- Consultant
- Executive
- Management Consultant
- Executive Leadership Coach
We partner with some of the best managed companies in the world to make them even better, and we'd welcome the opportunity to work with you to do the same.
Maryanne Colter is an executive leadership coach, senior change management consultant, and workplace strategist whose core areas of expertise encompass program management, process improvement, sustainability, and client/stakeholder relations. Having spent most of her career in multi-cultural, cross-functional, hybrid working environments, she brings proven success in helping organizations navigate complex scenarios, keeping all stakeholders engaged and aligned while transitioning to become more efficient, agile, and adaptive.
In 2021, Maryanne returned to professional coaching after a decade of corporate and consulting work, including internal roles, most recently at Morton Salt and previously at Deloitte and Accenture. During this period, she provided leadership development, project management, oversaw process improvement initiatives, and designed and implemented organizational transformation strategies. Before her positions at major consulting firms, she spent nine years as an independent consultant and coach, serving a diversified clientele across a broad spectrum of industries and market.
Experience and Expertise
Maryanne's key areas of expertise include:
Designing and implementing change management strategies for culture changes, organizational restructuring, or major technology changes
Designing learning and development programs, including curriculum and training material for personal growth or for enabling new skills
Designing and facilitating team effectiveness workshops, including coaching teams and team leaders to be effective in managing matrixed, multi-cultural, and hybrid/remote environments
Facilitation of Executive Steering Committee or Project Portfolio Committee alignment sessions
Facilitation of Executive or Project Team blending workshops, leveraging personality assessments to increase team effectiveness
Coaching new managers transitioning from individual contributor to team leader
Maryanne has spent her career bringing leading edge technologies and methods into organizations to manifest positive change. She has been a sought-after mentor to the next generation of leaders. In addition to mentoring and teaching in a corporate environment, she has also been a panelist on leadership topics and a frequent guest lecturer at Loyola University Chicago, led Project Management and Leadership sessions for Public Allies, and coached new managers for Cara Chicago.
Role
Michaleen "Micki" K. Lewis has partnered with hundreds of leaders in diverse work environments across North America for over 15 years. Lewis builds long-standing ties with leaders by co-creating customized frameworks and initiatives ensuring positive leader and organizational results.
Experience and Expertise
Prior to her affiliation with The Executive Edge®, Micki gained valuable experience while working for LINKAGE, Inc. a Global Leadership Development Organization based out of Boston. Micki was able to work alongside global leadership OD thought leaders like Warren Bennis (Leader Development), Marshall Goldsmith (Coaching) and William Bridges (Change).
During that time Ms. Lewis also was President of ATD - Chicago, one of the largest Talent Development Association Chapters in the world. Besides recruiting her Board Team of 22, together, the team reignited the organization, reviving the membership by >30%, turning it around to be financially secure for the first time in six years
Working both internally and externally as a Managing Director, Sr. Organizational Effectiveness and OD Consultant, Project Leader and Business Developer, Lewis began her career in the lab, managed departments then moved into sales and marketing for a global healthcare medical device organization. Lewis then transitioned into numerous diverse industries for her work completing Strategic Organizational Development | Effectiveness | Coaching initiatives - always building people and organizations along the way.
Ms. Lewis has partnered with clients across Technical, Healthcare, Academic and Government entities (see below for more detail). Micki's expertise range in these areas:
Executive Coaching / Leader and Team Coaching
Leadership and Team Development
Strategic Talent Development
Change / Transition/ Career Mobility
New Leader / New Team Assimilation
Honors and Awards
Lewis was selected as a national speaker & given awards (11x) for outstanding business development, sales, team and people development accomplishments. One global organization, Transitions, invited Micki to be a member of their Influential Leader Professional Forum.
Job Titles:
- Indicator® ( MBTI ) Qualified Administrator
Role
Paul brings considerable HR related depth and breadth given his extensive leadership experience within multiple fortune 500 companies. He possesses a unique and demonstrated blend of both strategy design and execution excellence. His most significant areas of interest relate to organizational challenges- including organizational transformations, cultural integrations following acquisitions, leadership and associate retention strategies, succession planning, restructurings and more. He has worked extensively with senior line clients to drive successful organizational change resulting in positive business impact.
Experience and Expertise
Prior to consulting, he was the Vice President of Human Resources for CDK Global, a newly spun off $2 billion business unit of ADP, where he was accountable for building out a full, free standing HR organization in support of the new enterprise. Paul spent 19 years with ADP, the last 7 of which he served as the global Vice President of Human Resources for the Dealer Services Division. Prior to ADP Paul held a number of HR roles of increasing accountability with PepsiCo/Taco Bell, Kraft Foods, Union Carbide/Viskase and Harris Corporation.
Paul develops collaborative and influential relationships at the C-Suite level, ensuring human capital practices, policies, programs and organizational behavior support identified business objectives. He develops and implements multi-faceted, accelerated leadership development programs- ensuring adequate bench-strength is available to fill key openings. Paul possesses deep domain expertise in the area of M&A, having led or supported all HR related facets of 30+ acquisitions including due diligence, executive alignment, cultural assessment & integration, payroll/benefits/policy conversion, etc. Through his contributions his organization's have delivered 90%+ key leader/employee retention rates, enabling transactions to consistently meet or exceed established business case. Paul tirelessly drives organizational prioritization on improving associate engagement to top 25 th % while addressing barriers and focusing on levers identified as most closely aligned with key business fundamentals. In addition he commands strong business acumen, fosters deep trust and organizational credibility thereby enabling executive adoption of identified Human Capital strategies.
Paul, his wife Kim, and their four children reside in the western suburbs of Chicago. He enjoys spending his free time with family and friends, traveling and participating in athletic endeavors whenever possible- most specifically snow skiing and golf.
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Ray is an accomplished human capital consultant and leader combining human resources, learning and organizational development and talent management, organization effectiveness and implementation expertise. Ray has over 22 years experience working in Fortune 200 organizations. As Senior Consultant for The Executive Edge®, Ray helps organizations realize the full value of their human capital. Ray effectively partners with all levels of clients, from managers to executives, to develop solutions that address their specific business needs.
Experience and Expertise
Ray Turek has over 22 years senior leadership experience in Human Resources, Learning and Organizational Development, Talent Management and Risk Management at Waste Management, a multi-site, multi-state organization. Ray has experience working in environmental and industrial services, logistics and transportation, manufacturing, retail and healthcare. He has successfully led organizations to higher performance by creating alignment with the business strategy, increasing employee engagement and driving results through metrics. He has been the architect of business change initiatives that have transformed organizations and functional departments resulting in increased operating margins, employee engagement and team performance.
Ray led the transformation of the Learning and Organizational Development function at Waste Management, a Fortune 200 company with 47,000 employees and $13.2 billion in revenue. He established and managed the first Learning & Development Governance Council comprised of the President/COO, Senior Vice Presidents of Sales & Marketing, Human Resources, Customer Service, Information Technology and the Corporate Secretary, resulting in $8 million in savings.
He spearheaded a major change initiative from its grass roots beginnings to national implementation resulting in $4.3 million in savings. The initiative shifted leadership from command and control to engagement and empowerment resulting in improved employee engagement, operating profits, customer service, turnover, retention and safety.
Before his role in Learning & Organizational Development, Ray was the Vice President of Human Resources for the Midwest Group of Waste Management. There he created and executed the human resources strategy for a 10,000 employee, $2.3 billion revenue business unit. In both roles, Ray has coached, mentored and facilitated senior and mid-level executives across multiple functions including operations, sales, finance, legal, customer service, environmental health and safety. He was also responsible for talent acquisition and management, succession planning and development of high potentials. The coaching occurred during business climates of significant growth, in contractions and with mergers, acquisitions and divestitures. Ray is experienced in the areas of:
Strategy Design & Execution
Human Capital Strategy Design and Execution
Talent Acquisition and Management, Learning and Organizational Development
Change Management/Organizational Transformation
Employee & Labor Relations
Restructuring
Mergers, Divestitures and Acquisitions
Branding & Communication
Customer & Employee Engagement
Coaching and Mentoring
Lean Six Sigma and Total Quality Management
Role
Dr. Young has over twenty years of progressive experience in delivering leadership assessment and coaching services designed to help his clients identify, evaluate and develop candidates for mission critical positions. He also facilitates team effectiveness assessment and training, organizational effectiveness assessment and development, and succession planning initiatives. He also offers action-oriented, practically focused executive coaching services. He assists private equity firms and client organizations with M&A due diligence and integration. He helps his clients plan and execute their vision, mission, and strategic goals using a proprietary cloud-based software and disciplined execution process that has been shown to raise collaboration and accountability across the organization.
Experience and Expertise
Bob began his consulting career by going from graduate school in psychology to being commissioned as an Active-Duty Captain in the United States Air Force. He played an active role in consulting with command staff at three different Air Force bases during his military career on a wide range of issues, including fitness for duty evaluations, leadership development, anti-terrorism joint forces command team effectiveness training, and Aircraft Mishap Investigation and Prevention. Since 1999, he has been serving the Wisconsin business community by delivering individual, team, and organizational assessments and developmental services. He consults across many different industry sectors such as financial services, healthcare, insurance, legal, manufacturing, food and beverage, government, and private equity.
Bob is married to his wife Shannon, has one daughter Allie and his two dogs Zoe & Hunter who are also considered members of his family. Bob's hobbies include hunting, motorcycling, gardening, nutritional science, and youth ministries at his church. He resides in Wisconsin with his family.
Role
Dr. Barcelona is a licensed business psychologist with over twenty-five years of experience providing insightful and evidenced-based approaches in executive coaching, leadership assessment, succession planning, organization and cultural transformation. He blends a highly quantitative/scientific industrial psychology background with his robust intuition (of people) and an in-depth understanding of a client's business.
Experience and Expertise
Role
Sandy is an experienced business consultant and certified executive coach. She has over 25 years of global experience aligning people, plans and processes to meet business objectives, particularly in the areas of organization development, change management, culture change and leadership development. She is exceptional at framing business needs, identifying improvement opportunities, and delivering tangible solutions that align to business goals. She is committed to providing value-added coaching and consulting services, while building relationships and delivering superior client service. Sandy is passionate about helping leaders grow, develop and succeed.
Experience and Expertise
Prior to joining The Executive Edge®, Sandy led her own consulting company for more than 15 years, creating improvements for several Fortune 100 corporations. She also worked close to 10 years at Accenture in a variety of change management roles, including being responsible for large-scale culture initiatives across 23,000 employees spanning the US, Latin America and Canada. She has experience across various industries including professional services, finance, telecommunications, healthcare, technology, utilities, and non-for profit organizations. She has worked with leaders of all levels across a variety of functional areas including: Finance, Accounting, Legal, Engineering, Operations, IT, Customer Service, Marketing, and Human Resources. She also has experience in union environments.
She has had recent, hands-on experience with the following key areas of expertise:
Culture Change (focused on a new business entity in growth mode)
Talent Management (defining new leadership competencies required to meet a changing business strategy)
Change Management (supporting technology change within a union environment)
Human Resource Strategy (aligning to support desired culture and business strategy)
Organization Design (design of new department, key outcomes, roles, measures)
Leadership Development & Executive Coaching (facilitating national conferences for a Big 4, and 1-1 coaching)
Sandy has spent her career helping organizations and leaders transform by helping them understand where they want to go, what is getting in the way and key decision points needed to execute. She has coached all levels of leaders ranging from CEO to emerging leaders. She has done business consulting, change work and executive coaching in start-ups, existing organizations, mergers/joint ventures and in numerous industries. Her ability to build relationships and work collaboratively across all organization levels has contributed to her success in delivering results.
She has worked with numerous clients including Price Waterhouse Coopers, Deloitte, DeVry, AT&T, T-Mobile, Baxter Healthcare, Nicor Gas, Exelon Corp, Accenture, Charter Communications, Hewitt Associates, and Sears Roebuck.
Role
Stephen (Steve) Fallek is a seasoned leader, consultant, and coach who works with executives and their senior teams to improve leadership and management practices. He helps them build a character-based culture that provides an environment of trust and care to foster strong relationships among customers, suppliers, and employees for the collaboration that creates the innovative solutions to drive sustained profitability.
Steve has expertise in strategic performance management, including the disciplines of strategic planning, market analysis, and performance measurement. He has over 35 years experience guiding top executives to speed the execution of strategy through better communication and measurement.
Experience and Expertise
Prior to joining The Executive Edge®, Steve was in executive management with leading insurance industry companies headquartered in the Chicago area. He began this career with eight years in various market research and planning positions at CNA Insurance. He joined Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association in its planning department and rose to become director of planning. After twelve years with the Blue Cross and Blue Shield organization, he moved to Zurich Insurance to lead its planning department. During 17 years with Zurich, Steve was elected as a corporate vice-president and played leadership roles in two organizational transformations. Throughout his career, Steve has worked directly with top executives of major organizations. He guided enterprise and division level teams through group problem solving and consensus building to create breakthrough strategies and action plans that improved performance and profitability. Areas of particular expertise include:
Strategic Planning Design and Facilitation
Executive Team Building
Character Based Leadership
Change Management
Executive Coaching
Experience And Expertise
Steve has enjoyed a 40 year career in higher education, with a background that spans enrollment management, student affairs, finance and administration and institutional leadership. He has represented organizations in governmental relations, licensing affairs, community outreach and public relations -the latter involving multiple appearances on local TV news programs, along with being highlighted on TNT as a community ‘difference maker' for his work in STEM related education. Steve was also chosen by Mayor Rahm Emanuel's World Business Chicago team to participate in its first WBC Fellowship program, spending three months working with the higher ed, funding and workforce development communities in Cook County, IL. Since 2011, Steve has been responsible for coaching and developing middle-to-executive level leaders in the higher education setting. His focus is on executive coaching in a one-on-one environment, asking the right questions - rather than providing one-time advice - to ensure that each client develops their own unique solutions and strengths. He emphasizes candor and confidentiality, providing a safe environment for employee exploration, reflection and development. Steve's key areas of expertise include:
Steve's key areas of expertise include:
Executive coaching and leadership development
Effective communication and presentation
Effective team building
Strategic planning
Role
Understanding the need to be strategic in goals and actions, knowing how to lead change and navigate the company culture and maintain a healthy life/work balance are some of the critical areas in which Susan excels. Her depth of knowledge in helping leaders accelerate their contributions, while helping them to maintain a balanced approach to work and life, is what sets her apart.
As a certified coach and seasoned seminar leader, her work with high potentials in global organizations is both rewarding and enriching - for Susan and her clients.
Experience and Expertise
Susan's experience in the corporate world included field operations, organizational development and human resource management. Today, she works with leading global companies to strengthen their bench and help individuals find their best work while at work. Her ability to get a team or leader to think differently and strategize about ‘what could be' makes Susan a very valuable coach and team facilitator. Susan's areas of expertise in coaching, assessments and training include:
Assessing strengths and areas for development using 360's, leadership style assessments (Forte, Lifo) and conflict management tools
Coaching leaders to define their next steps of growth, focus on moving forward and maintaining a healthy work/life balance
Facilitating leadership/management communication style workshops
Speaking & facilitating on "Leading at the Speed of Life: A Balanced Approach to Work and Life & "The Power of Presence: Showing up Confident, Competent & Authentic."
Designing interactive workshops and experiential learning activities
Facilitating senior leadership strategy meetings and team sessions
Susan has spent much of her career focusing on strengthening the leadership capabilities of others. She is described as patient, but persuasive and her collaborative style has worked well in coaching for development, building more effective teams and strategic planning. She understands the nature of business and finds reward in helping others play the game of business. Some of her most recent work has been done at HP, Microsoft, Walt Disney World Co., Siemens, Prudential, Tribune, and American Express.
She has spoken extensively to leading organizations on the topics of leadership development, executive presence and increasing communication effectiveness and the balance of life & work.
Susan holds a B.A. in Management & Business and is an advanced student in coaching at Coach U. She is affiliated with WOMEN Unlimited, a leadership development organization, the Executive Edge and various other HR/OD associations. She is a member of several business networking groups across the U.S., sharing the practices of leadership assessment and development.
Job Titles:
- Talent Development Consultant
Role
Traci is a results-oriented Talent Development Consultant with over 15 years of expertise in Instructional Design, Leadership Development, and Project Management. She is adept at collaborating and gaining commitment from cross-functional C-Suite Leaders and employees at all levels. She assesses organizational needs, as well as, designs and executes global learning training universities and the blended curriculum required while aligning the client's corporate values and critical business objectives.
She partners with her clients to solve problems using a broad range of learning development tools and methods that propel repeatable and sustainable success. Traci has extensive experience managing large scale global projects in fast-paced, highly ambiguous, and matrixed business environments. She played a crucial role in the start-up of the Danaher Corporate University (DBSU) and managed its day-to-day global operations. Danaher is a Fortune 150 conglomerate with over 120 diverse operating companies in 135 countries. She led the instructional design, execution, and on-going sustainment of Danaher's Organic Growth, Leadership Development, and Lean Manufacturing/Operations learning initiatives. With Traci at the helm of day-to-day operations, DBSU proved to be the lifeblood for talent development and culture transformation; enabling business growth for Danaher year-over-year.
She has enabled breakthrough results by designing custom soft-skills and technical training around the most critical corporate priorities. She designed and deployed over 50 major technical and soft-skills trainings, tools, and processes for over 65,000 internal clients of diverse industries. Training solutions included Instructor-Led, Web-Based, On-Demand, Blended Instruction, and Train-the-Trainer.
Traci excels at coaching teams to be innovative while remaining focused on driving projects to completion and exceeding expectations. Her work approach leverages collaborative partnerships with her clients and a focus for helping them achieve extraordinary business results.
Areas of Expertise
Designing and deploying global curriculum development programs
Job Titles:
- Education and Professional Associations