Northdawn Coaching & Consulting

I help career clients conquer uncertainty and self-doubt, enabling them to regain control of their professional harmony, build unwavering confidence, and pursue a more empowered, successful, and fulfilling career.

Career Development Coach

Stanford University

•Focused on redesign and program management of leader and manager development, learning and development and career services with an emphasis on diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging, and organization development initiatives in support of staff facing pandemic period challenges
•Developed, managed and facilitated Manager Forums, a monthly manager development webinar with an average attendance of 300+ staff managers per month
•Over the course of three years, redesigned the flagship nomination-based leadership development programs resulting in flexible virtual, hybrid and in-person designs
•Created and facilitated the Leading Through Uncertainty and Leading Teams in a New and Distributed Era series reaching 500+ managers and individual contributors in small groups of 50 or less during the early and mid pandemic
•Served on the design team to create and launch the IDEAL Learning Journey, a comprehensive approach to build DEIB awareness and strengthen skills through self-paced learning, virtual workshops and discussion groups targeting 15K staff members with 7K having started the journey by early 2023

Director, Talent Management & Organization Development

•Transitioned to Learning & Organizational Effectiveness, part of Talent Management & Workforce Strategy, enabling deeper focus on career services, leader and manager programs, and leading organization development initiatives
•Led the four-year change management initiative and managed the change team in developing the overarching change strategy, processes, rollout of 20+ customized change workshops for managers and individual contributors, and pre and post move engagement surveys supporting the shift of 2500 staff members to the new Redwood City Campus; provided organization development consulting to Stanford leaders and teams from across the University
•Developed and managed a comprehensive set of career resources timed to support the rollout of the new Stanford job description library including an online self-service resource with Lee Hecht Harrison, career pathing with PageUp People and the redesign of the Career Counseling Network (CCN)
•Directed the year-long nomination based cohorts of Stanford Leadership Academy and Leadership@Stanford; conducted executive coaching within the programs as well as managerial coaching within Stanford Manager Academy

Talent Development Manager, Talent Management & Workforce Strategy, University Human Resources

•Grew both Owning Your Career@Stanford and StanfordTemps to be thriving lines of business while also expanding into manager development and organization development programs and projects
•Oversaw and delivered all aspects of the career services and resources provided University-wide including the facilitation of over 50 core half and full-day workshops, the design and delivery of 100+ unique lunch-time seminars, 350+ 1:1 coaching meetings; all in service to approximately 1000 staff members
•Expanded and enhanced the original design and delivery of Owning Your Career@Stanford to include monthly career workshop networking and accountability groups, increased coaching opportunities, and targeted departmental presentations; project manager of a multi-year/multi-unit student services project to pilot education, experience, and exposure (3E) career opportunities for student focused staff across four schools and units
•Coached 6+ managers per quarter as part of the Stanford Manager Academy coaching team, interpreted 360 results
•Directed the StanfordTemps contingent staffing service; overseeing two StanfordTemps recruiters in sourcing, screening, interviewing, and placing temporary employees on assignment

Career Education Programs Manager, Staff Employment, University Human Resources

•After a successful pilot of the Owning Your Career@Stanford program, selected as the only team member to remain after layoffs to continue the StanfordTemps services as well as manage the Owning Your Career@Stanford program
•Delivered all aspects of the Owning Your Career@Stanford program, including monthly facilitation of the core half-day workshop, design and delivery of bi-weekly lunch-time seminars, and 1:1 career coaching sessions
•	Partnered with client hiring managers to source qualified candidates for their open requisitions and conducted reference and pre-employment background checks; administered the hiring, onboarding, and termination processes
•Provided employee relations guidance to managers and took appropriate disciplinary action with employees, interpreting and applying administrative guide policies

Staffing and Career Education Consultant, Staff Employment, University Human Resources

•Hired into a one-year fixed term role to join a team of recruiters for StanfordTemps, an internal facing temporary agency built on a cost recovery framework
•During a period of significant economic downturn and amongst layoffs across the organization that significantly reduced StanfordTemps revenue generation, proposed, designed and piloted Owning Your Career@Stanford, a comprehensive career management program for Stanford staff, an effort that functioned as a needed service for staff employees and an alternative internal revenue stream

Staffing Consultant

Zenger Miller (became AchieveGlobal and now AchieveForum is a part of Korn Ferry)

•	Managed the HR function including training and development, recruiting, benefits administration, performance management, compensation, and employee relations for this premier developer of management training and consulting to Fortune 500 and other organizations
•	Started as the Executive Assistant to the President, promoted within the first year to HR Representative and ultimately to HR Manager overseeing HR operations

Human Resources Manager

Organization Development and Talent Management professional with 25+ years of experience in higher education and learning & development/management consulting industries. Strong focus on utilizing entrepreneurial thinking, innovation, problem-solving, and collaboration to achieve organizational and individual goals and objectives. Deep experience in program design and management, facilitation, and coaching. 

•15 years of experience with the design and management of leadership development, professional development and career services programming addressing an audience of 15K staff members across 20+ schools and units in higher ed
•Insightful coaching of leaders, managers, and individual contributors positively impacting engagement, retention and skill development through 350+ career 1:1s as well as 100+ manager and leader developmental coaching sessions
•Adept design and facilitation of 250+ in-person and virtual developmental workshops, discussion groups, networking events, focus groups, and team buildings

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