Illumine Ventures, LLC

Founder

Whole Foods Market

- Defined the leadership development strategy and roadmap for the organization.
- Enabled Whole Foods Market leader’s growth, happiness and performance through the successful design, implementation, facilitation and sustainability of unified leadership development programs.
- Responsible for all facets of leadership development for Store, Regional, and Global Support leaders.

Global Director of Leadership Development

• Defined the regional learning & development strategy and led cross-functional efforts to build impactful leadership development programs to enable the growth of leaders of all levels.
• Collaborated with global leaders to champion the “Success Profile” tool that will be foundational to all aspects of talent management at Whole Foods Market. Outputs: EC & RVP Success Profiles.
• Led the Unified Leadership Development working group through multiple strategic iterations. Outputs: virtual TL development workshops and defined competencies for four levels of leaders.
• Partnered with senior regional leaders to define regional strategic priorities as they related to talent management. Outputs: high-potential development strategy & programs, “Leading through Change” strategy, “Speed-to-Floor” & “Always-On-Hiring” mechanisms.
• Led cross-regional effort to build the TL Cross-Training program that was adopted company-wide.

Regional Director of Learning & Development

•	Responsible for developing and implementing the vision and strategy for the following programs: Team Educator, In-Store Educator, NM Onboarding Path, Certified Purchaser.
•	Created a comprehensive training and communication strategy to support the transition of the Team Educator program from a role to an official position with its own wage guideline.
•	Led the region’s Envisioning initiative; developing and facilitating an Envisioning Day for each Regional Support team and overseeing the execution of the Metro Envisioning Days.

Regional Learning & Development Associate Director

•	Demonstrated ability to increase store support for training through effective communication of training benefits, relationship building, and proven leadership development results.
•	Developed Restaurant Venue Orientation in collaboration with store and regional leadership. 
•	Created Metro Educator Guidebook to support new Metro Educator onboarding.
•	Served as a mentor to fellow Metro Educators and ISEs to maximize their effectiveness.

Metro Educator

•	Contributed to a successful new store opening through effective training, leadership, and communication with department team members.  Our department nearly tripled our opening sales projections.
•	Improved team performance through strategic merchandising, diligent inventory management, and by motivating our team to stay focused under the rigorous demands of a new store opening.
•	Focused on training team members to deliver an excellent customer service experience through role playing, recognition, and leading by example.
•	Developed a firm understanding of department operations and financials.

Specialty Associate Team Leader

•	Successfully completed leadership development program designed to prepare Team Members for team leadership.
•	Challenged to execute new product strategies to support regional objectives and increase department sales.

Leadership Development Candidate

Compass, Inc.

•	Responsible for leading all field training efforts; including creating the learning roadmap, content, and systems to support the field in achieving sales objectives.   
•	Increased monthly recurring revenue by 126% in one year by revisiting and adjusting the business system training; then followed through by increasing field awareness of both online and weekly training courses.

Director of Field Development

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Human Design Solutions

Early on, I relied on my left brain way too much. I didn't know myself, and I let conditioning, fear, and over-sensitivity rule my life.

This led to choosing a wrong degree, starting in a wrong career, and being who I wasn't for many years.

I kept showing up in a certain way, and then blamed others for not really seeing me!
I kept feeling frustrated and angry, and didn't know why.

Gradually, I came to see that expression, creativity, empathy, inspiration, and intuition are all a big part of me, too.

I've embraced my left and right brain strengths, and worked through much of the pain, struggles, and resistance I had built up over the years.

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Working with me, you'll get:
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Originally from the UK, I worked in accounting before heading abroad at 26. I spent a year in Australia and then taught Business English in Japan, where I also wrote test items for their national English test company.

I moved to Canada in 2009 to live at a meditation center. Now I support the center virtually and run local classes here in Calgary. You're welcome to join the online meditation circle I co-founded in 2020 for people who want a regular meditation practice.

By living and working in mindful communities for 15 years, I've learned so much about myself and others, how teams interact, and how the shadow can wreak havoc. Human Design and BG5 came to me from a chance encounter when I challenged myself to meet a group of new people - the kind of thing I'm designed to do. It's given me a framework that brings all my skills together to help others.

Get in touch to see if we're a fit.

Chief Catalyst

Meditation Groundwork

Meditation Groundwork offers live guided meditations three nights a week. https://www.meditationgroundwork.org

Co-Founder

TCC Japan

Writing original English language test items for practice papers or private clients, to variety of English and vocabulary levels. Editing other writers' work

Writer and Editor

Clear Sky Retreat Center

Creating and editing content for website, blogs, mailings, programming, internal communications, advertising. Managing Google Ads Grant account.

Content Writer and Marketing Team Member

Attending board meetings, submitting monthly reports and annual report, heading pricing committee, producing budgets, presenting at AGM's, answering bookkeeper inquiries, providing management information and recommendations.

Treasurer

Phoenix Words

I help people build confidence in writing for their business. In particular, I encourage people to write in their authentic voice for their website and mailing list.
I am also available to write for your business including rewrites of current content, new websites, and regular blogs or bulk emails.

Blog Writing Coach, Content Writer

Society for Testing English Proficiency - Tokyo, Japan

Researching or creating appropriate topics/scenarios.
Writing to exact specifications of examiners, including articles, dialogues, 'gap' passages, questions and distracting/correct answers.
Writing articles from 70-700 words at different levels of English.
Editing other writers' work.
Extracting questions and answers from completed articles.
Proofreading completed test pamphlets.
Work involved national examinations, national radio program dialogues, and recently university entrance tests.

Content Writer

ALC Education, Inc. Global Leadership and Talent Development (GLTD)

Training adults in appropriate spoken and written English, both in groups and one-one.
Conducting intensive residential programs and weekly classes.
Training in technical writing.
Designing curriculums, choosing appropriate materials.
Detailed reporting per class, monthly, and per student at the end of each course.

Business English Instructor

Jenbro Limited, UK

Assisting Financial Director in creating annual budget.
Preparing monthly management accounts.
Reconcilations of bank accounts and cash book, supervising sales and purchase ledgers.
Transferred from paper accounts to computerised nominal ledger.
Managed, administered, and troubleshooted computer network.
Interviewing, hiring, dismissal of staff.
Created HR training induction manual.

Management Accountant

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