Waykeeper Farm & Nerdery

Neither my husband nor myself have a farming background, we didn’t grow up around livestock and we both had very small vegetable gardens as kids.

We wanted to get involved in small-scale farming because we believe that big agriculture is not sustainable.

I first learned about permaculture design when I started planting trees in my suburban backyard outside Dallas, Texas and they kept dying.

I learned more about the interconnected world of soil life. I got to appreciate how important water flow is, and how planting more than one thing together can help the whole do better.

After successfully planting some fruit trees, I wanted to bring animals into the picture to help increase our fertility and add diversity. 

So we made the plunge and bought a 17-acre farm. We kept a few of the original horses as boarders, and we’re grateful because we learned so much about farm life from these longtime horse owners who have seen it all.

After moving we jumped in with both feet and welcomed chickens, geese, ducks, and dairy sheep to our farm. Not to mention a few barn cats, and all of the amazing birds, butterflies, and bees.

We’ve been called “software nerds who pick up sheep turds” and that feels like a great way to put it.

The farm is an ever-evolving project, where we continue to plant more trees, and practice rotational grazing in an effort to regenerate the land and sequester carbon.

Permaculture Farmer

AccessAlly

AccessAlly is the #1 WordPress Course and Membership Solution for Industry Leaders.

We understand what it’s like to outgrow your systems.

We’ve helped 100,000+ business owners scale on their terms. In fact, AccessAlly provides training to over 2,578,387 end users.

AccessAlly is a powerful, flexible customer-getting and retaining system that grows with your business, and that pays for itself.

It integrates deeply with automation marketing platforms like Infusionsoft, Ontraport, Drip, Keap, ActiveCampaign, and ConvertKit. 

You shouldn’t have to deal with software that hinders business growth.

Find out more at: https://AccessAlly.com

We believe that access to education can help defy stereotypes and make the world a better place, while providing a sustainable livelihood for enterprising teachers.

Founder

Nathalie Lussier Media Inc.

I’m a digital strategist, and I believe that unique businesses deserve unique strategies to succeed online… and I love coming up with ideas to match your ambition.

I'm award-winning entrepreneur who has been making web sites since she I 12 years old, and graduated with a degree in Software Engineering and a job offer from Wall Street. In a gutsy move, I turned down this job to start my own business right out of college. 

Now running a six figure consulting company, I help thousands of people all over the world get techy with it, and I've been featured in Forbes, Inc., FastCompany, Venture Beat, Mashable, and Under 30 CEO.

I've been blogging for over 10 years, and really “get” the online marketing landscape, focusing heavily on improving key business metrics like traffic, subscribers, and sales. 

I've helped clients launch online campaigns that generated over $139,000 in sales in under a month, and kickstarted entire new businesses using these strategies. 

Clients and customers rave about my ability to simplify the complex, and make technology and digital strategy easy to understand and implement.

Founder / CEO

Wise Women's Council

Lead the Wise Women's Council members in a workshop around Scaling on Your Terms, and what's needed for today's leaders to grow a business sustainably.

Workshop Facilitation

CoachingOurselves International Inc.

Part of the Coaching Ourselves team, learning how to manage better through experience as a manager. Providing web strategy consulting, software wrangling, and social media mojo.

Web Strategy Consulting

Morgan Stanley

*  Worked closely with clients to design and develop an Adobe Flex interface to display key business data in a refreshing format.
    * Implemented dynamic charts and graphs from XML SOAP responses to give users a visual understanding of the data in Flex and Action Script.
    * Developed an Export to Excel function to retrieve data from Flex into a spreadsheet format that can be saved by users.
    * Wrote end-to-end functionality starting from Flex, through ASP.NET to pass SOAP messages, to coding Java server side database queries and data aggregation.

Application Software Developer

Platform Solutions Inc.

-Lead the daily bug status meetings, developed a PHP tool to display transient bug counts, managed the assignment of bugs to developers and tracked their progress.

-Learned the IBM z/Architecture assembly language by writing, testing and debugging new z/Architecture instructions using Intel's Itanium Assembly language.

-Leveraged self-modifying code to develop a dynamic debugging tool, written in Intel Itanium Architecture Assembly.

CPU Firmware Developer

-Designed and developed two new client-side C# view modules while adjusting to changing specifications and time constraints.

-Leveraged C# serialization and SOAP request/response messages to communicate with the Linux-run server side code while tracing the messages through from C# to Java in Eclipse.

-Wrote unmarshalling code to take XML and dynamically create columns and rows in a grid and display SOAP response data to traders.

-Incoporated my modules into the existing pricing form to recalculate prices based on the changing data retrieved from the feeds.

Trading Application Developer

ALT Software

-Became the sole developer for the C#-based test automation project (both build and test managers), implementing over 30 new features while increasing the level of stability and performance of the program.

-Leveraged C/C++ and OpenGL to create visual test cases to verify a safety critical Aerospace graphics driver.

-Traced through the graphics driver code and helped driver developers to pinpoint bugs, while acquiring a deeper understanding of graphics and low level programming.

-Developed keen interpersonal skills by working with QA for the automation program, while catering to the needs of users and keeping the MySQL back-end and the GUI front-end well organized.

Software Developer

Nuance

-Researched and proposed a new database system and implemented the database layer changes with a co-worker.

-Reimplemented two modules of the Voice Recognition program, performed developer tests, created a personal schedule for time management while meeting release deadlines.

-Worked with a team of testers and developers to debug and maintain existing code base and also worked remotely with a team from an offsite office.

-As a Quality Assurance Engineer in 2004 I wrote and debugged Perl scripts, to set up new testing environments for different aspects of the software product.

Speech Application Developer

I'm the founder of AccessAlly, the most flexible WordPress plugin designed to elegantly deliver your digital offerings as your business grows.

I'm a also permaculture farmer and raise dairy sheep, ducks, chickens, and geese.

I lead a team of incredible humans alongside my husband Robin because we believe that education can help defy stereotypes.

We're on a personal mission to help regenerate the soil and grow food in sustainable ways.

On LinkedIn, you'll find me posting about everything from online course creation, promoting membership sites, and raising dairy sheep.

Plus all of the ups and downs that come up for us as startup founders, what it's like being a woman in tech, and why I'm so passionate about regenerative agriculture.

Nathalie Lussier

bettHR

bettHR: Solving your HR problems through connection and engagement.

Data-Driven HR
Data and metrics drive every business, including a high-functioning HR department. Knowing the data-story behind your HR activities is not only critical to earn your seat at the table, but also allows HR to be a part of the overall strategy. Tracking the right metrics and being able to tell the story behind the data and how the data is tied to the overall mission, makes HR indispensable.
HR metrics evaluation that take what you’re already tracking, to the next level
• Data strategy to maximize HR activities and solutions
• Datafication of HR – determining the best metrics for your HR team to track and how to implement and incorporate those metrics into your daily HR activities
• Storytelling for HR – taking your data from numbers to actual results

Impactful Employee Experiences
Your employees receive so many communications on a daily basis – are the important messages getting through? Having an employee communication strategy that focuses on reaching your entire employee population – multi-generations, various channels, personalized messages, will ensure your HR change management activities are successful.
• Customized employee communications campaign strategy
• Change management strategy and tactical implementation 
• SharePoint and web service solutions that maximize your budget, reach and value

Communicate Your Total Rewards
Being able to share your unique culture, rewards, benefits, and opportunities to external candidates and internal employees, will continue to provide you with a strategic advantage in retaining and engaging your top talent.

• Open Enrollment strategy and tactical implementation – customized strategy to reach your entire employee population
• Total Rewards strategy evaluation and creation ensuring the goals of your program are being met 
• Web solutions to communicate your total rewards to internal and external audiences

Managing Director, Lead Consultant - Human Resources Solutions

Forbes Human Resources Council

Member of the Forbes HR Council: 2019, 2020, 2022, 2023

Member

Conduent HR Services

• Led benefits communications strategy and associated deliverables for over 45 clients in various industries including Aerospace, Automotive, Business Processing, Luxury Home, Telecommunications, Publishing, and more. 
• Created communication strategies and tactical materials that supported each client’s unique culture, company brand and internal communications voice, to influence their overall benefits and wellness strategy, showing an ROI for their benefits administration spend. 
• Participated in the sales and RFP/RFI processes, representing benefit communication capabilities (administrative and strategic) – created enhanced sales materials, attended sales meetings for new and existing clients. 
• Developed standardized templates and off-the-shelf communications for large-scale projects to be used enterprise-wide. 
• Directly managed the Open Enrollment and wellness communication strategy and tactical deliverables for large-scale clients. Tactical delivery included project management, vendor coordination, writing, editing and designing materials, and client engagement. 
• Brought technology capabilities and skillset, to create new sales and upsell opportunities for solutions including microsites/eguides, videos, audiocasts, and more, ensuring more channel availability, deliverability and usage for client-focused solutions. Designed, coded and managed all microsites across the benefits administration business. 
• Designed and managed the migration on the employee intranet portal for the Xerox to Conduent split, impacting 90,000 employees and created Recruiting EVP for Xerox to Conduent split – including strategy, blueprint, talk tracks, social media strategy and assets.

VP, Strategic Communications, HR Services

American Red Cross

Launched HR Communications as a strategic function across the American Red Cross (approx. 25,000 employees).

Created HR Communications strategy and standards including sub-strategies for Annual Enrollment, Wellness Campaigns, HR projects. In addition to creating the strategy, also wrote, edited, designed, distributed, etc. all messaging for HR-related programs and projects. 

Key Accomplishments Include: 
• Increased engagement during Annual Enrollment, during a passive enrollment year, while saving the company a significant amount of money (upwards of $500k)
• Creating a standard process to message to various organizations
• Implemented new HR metrics - both in tracking and analyzing, showcasing value on various HR and Communication activities
• Created, designed and maintained an external website for Total Rewards

Director, HR Communications & Policy

Abbott Vascular

Responsible for the diagnosis, development and delivery of HR strategies, programs and services that influence and drive the needs of the respective business supported. Ensured strategies  were incorporated and are consistent with divisional/corporate values, sound and ethical business practices, and incorporated Abbott HR practices that support the long-range business plan for the client areas supported. 

Managed the delivery of HR services across a major segment of the business. Acted as the face of the business to HR and the face of HR to the business; act as a liaison between the business and corporate HR. Provided HR expertise to business strategy and consulting on a variety of HR functional issues.

Managed clients and programs of the HR Communications plan. Operated in a consulting role to HR and business unit personnel, delivering strategic communications counsel and project plans that support the HR long-range plan, core initiatives, overarching message platforms, and global HR Communications planning and implementation.

Senior Manager, Business HR & HR Communications

Niche Media

Responsible for recruiting, benefits administration, employee relations, compensation, new hire process, training, performance review process for 300 employees in various locations across the U.S.

Provided overall leadership and direction to all employees; implemented best practices for employee relations, recruiting, internship program, employee files, benefit administration, performance management, new hire process, and management training as identified.

Director, HR (generalist role)

American Express Publishing & American Express Business Travel

Spearheaded and launched a new employee communications department with the mission to create a centralized system of internal communications as well as other employee programs.

Designed and developed employee engagement programs including training, compensation, PMP, recognition, awards, career and succession planning programs.

Created HR Communications strategic plan, tools, processes, messaging.

Manager, Employee Communications

Time Inc.

Pitched national and regional electronic and print publications and media, to secure national placement of press releases, Money articles, and Money editors/writers.

Developed and facilitated employee events with themes based on information from the pages of the magazine.

Senior Publicist (contract)

HarperCollins Publishers

Publicity/Marketing

Employee Experience & Engagement Leader | HR Communications | Speaker | Author | Forbes HR Council

You’re an HR leader delivering exceptional HR, but your team is stuck doing tactical HR work or focused on employee engagement instead of the things that actually moves the needle. 

Let’s fix that. 
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Without being intentional in the employee experience you’re creating, you’ll never be able to focus on the right HR strategy to shift your company’s culture, retain key talent, and increase employee engagement. 

That’s the power of the employee experience. 

Creating continuous positive touchpoints for your employees, to build a stronger relationship with your company – while also loving the work you’re doing. 

There’s a time and place for tactical and compliance-driven HR activities, but that shouldn’t be all your team does. 

In fact, if that’s the case, each day you’re losing your HR credibility and the opportunity to showcase the ROI your team can have on the organization. 

That’s where I come in. 

The quickest way to increase employee engagement and have employees living your stated company culture is to create an intentional employee experience across all your HR activities, projects, programs, and tech. 

I’ll support you in uncovering the various gaps your employees are experiencing on a daily basis that has generated increased engagement by more than 35% consistently, created inclusive cultures focusing on retaining talent, and helped hundreds of HR leaders fall back in love with their career. 

If you’re an HR leader and you want to: 

▶️ Get off the tactical HR hamster wheel
▶️ Focus on strategic HR work that makes a significant impact to your employees
▶️ Create a work culture where people want to show up
▶️ Write employee communications that have your employees taking action

Email me at hello@bettHR.com to see how we can partner together to create impactful employee experiences that drive real engagement.

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