Orchid Holistic Search

🌿 Founder of a boutique, high-impact executive search firm, personally billing $500K–$1M annually while leading a team dedicated to placing purpose-driven leaders in natural products, wellness, and sustainability. Partnering with conscious companies (🌱Startup - $500M) and Private Equity firms to build leadership teams that drive long-term success.

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President

Blanco y Negro Sostenible

Connecting our community to their food, and to one another. One bite at a time.  Leading growth strategy for a 2.5 acre regenerative woman-owned farm, packaged goods, retail food and experiences business in the Cartago province of Costa Rica.

Vice President of Growth & Culture 

Regenerative Magic Retreats

Taking busy executives out of their comfort zones and into the wild, lush beauty of Costa Rican nature.  Curated groups will explore farming, food as medicine, nature and authenticity as sources of connection and community.  Filling our cup regenerates our own personal magic. ✨

Founder

Venteon Finance

Managed a split-desk (business development & recruitment). Specialized in accounting, finance and HR professionals for direct-hire and contract placement in the Metro Detroit - Ann Arbor areas. Pioneered new market segments of not-for-profit, education and healthcare. Implemented strategic marketing initiatives to grow and retain client base.

Sales & Recruitment Executive

Let’s find YOUR people! 💎🌺🔎

For a decade and a half, I have had the honor of stewarding conscious hiring for Natural CPG brands and manufacturers, Private Equity firms and other adjacent orgs doing good in the world. We build leadership teams that align with mission and fuel growth. At Orchid Holistic Search, we take on just a few searches at a time to go deep and get it right for our Clients. No mass emails. No bots. Just precision matchmaking for purpose-driven brands with an average time to fill of 36 days. ⚡️

🌿 Regenerative Hiring: Living on a farm in Costa Rica has reinforced what I’ve always known: growth thrives with care, diversity, and the right conditions. So do leadership teams.

✨ Beyond hiring, leaders need S P A C E to thrive. I curate wellness & personal growth retreats in Costa Rica for women in industry, giving founders and executives time to pause, realign with purpose, and lead with clarity. In 2023, I was honored with the New Hope Joy Award, nominated by retreat guests who found deep transformation & joy in these experiences.

Angela Marturano

Morneau Shepell

Worked with Product Owner to help keep a healthy product backlog, prioritizing feature development and enhancements based on critical paths of the  end-user business and needs.
Lead two scrum teams of six ensuring effective collaboration and communication.
Mentored team members on best and most effective ways to use the scrum framework to improve efficiency and reduce production time.
Facilitated all scrum events including sprint planning, daily scrum stand-ups, product backlog refinement, sprint reviews and sprint retrospectives.
Encouraged transparency and openness in daily stand-up and other ceremonies.
Assist Product Owner to achieve and maintain a  healthy product backlog.
Coached teams to improve collaboration, self organizing, and cross-functional, by creating an environment in which the teams can increase productivity, quality, and predictability.
Successfully managed SDLC from ideation, Sprints to deployment.
Track team progress and convert related metrics as a tool for continuous improvement.
Worked effectively within scrum team to remove impediments and track them in JIRA
Help product owner, developing teams, and stakeholders understand empirical product development.

Scrum Master

Wipro

Facilitate scrum events and ceremonies (backlog refinement, sprint planning, daily stand-up, sprint review, and sprint retrospectives) in accordance with Agile values to ensure deliverable/sprint release are prompt and on schedule for product demos.
Convey program plans and metrics from burndown charts and timelines by translating requirements, outcomes, and key performance indicators (KPI’s) into consumable presentations.
Allow visibility of project artifacts (jira board) for inspection by team members to increase velocity, monitor deadlines, track sprint/release progress and ensure time-box compliance.
Work closely with Product owner to aid in the understanding of backlog management, acceptance criteria, continuous prioritization, and delivery of features.
Developed a good professional relationship with Product owner and other stakeholders.
Ensure development teams understand and maintain commitment to the Definition of Done (Dod), Definition of Ready (DOR) and the team’s working agreements.
Coached team members on how to effectively use the scrum values as a guide.
Effective communication with my team to make sure they always have what is needed to have a successful sprint.
Facilitate the removal of blockers, impediments, and distractions that interfere with the team’s ability to progressively deliver the agreed upon Sprint goals.

Donnelly Communications, Inc.

Set and adjusted to schedules to maintain optimal coverage and service levels. 

Managed overtime, shift swaps, breaks and PTO requests. 

Worked with management to develop strategic and tactical plans to meet different requirements. 

Produced and updated documents, reports and tracking spreadsheets using Microsoft Office, Excel, and PowerPoint. 

Responsible for meetings with users and stakeholders to identify problems, resolve issues and improve the process to ensure a stable and accurate solution. 

Participated in developing and identifying the key performance indicators to assist the Project manager to systematically track the progress made in achieving predetermined goals. 

Participated in user acceptance testing of new system functionalities.

Workforce Analyst

Murphy USA

Supervised, trained, and coached a successful team of 10 health benefit specialists.
Prepared weekly/monthly schedules.
Addressed employee and production issues to determine and implement optimal resolutions, preventing wasted resources and maintaining schedules.
Aided plan participants by explaining benefits information to ensure educated selections.
Reviewed the team's enrollments to verify accuracy inputting all information into the company's database.
Ensure data integrity and confidentiality by observing strict regulations and procedures.
Resolved customer’s complaints and reported issues to senior management.
Ensured data integrity and confidentiality by observing strict regulations and procedures.

Team Lead Manager

Certified (PSM) Professional Scrum Master with over three years proficiency in implementing and improving agile values and principles. Knack for effective communication and problem solving, helping individuals and teams tap into hidden talents and abilities. Coached others to increase efficiency, prioritizing tasks, remove impediments and until proactive thinking skills. Proven track record using strong communications, interpersonal and leadership skills. Friendly, outgoing, enthusiastic Scrum Master with experience of motivating developing teams towards product objectives. My focus is to support the product owner and coach teams  to foster the agile mindset; ensuring the highest quality software delivered with customer satisfaction as priority.

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Angela Marturano

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