Greater Chicago Area
Project Manager with global expertise who builds practical, integrated program strategies. Collaborative leader with a history of achievable, measurable results using strategic team leadership and creative problem solving. Manage complex change using metrics, development solutions, and effective communication to gain alignment and support. Achievements: Optimized post-pandemic real estate footprint and reduced cost by 6M. Partnered with leadership team to transform business through centralization, automation using ServiceNow with dashboards and workflows reducing time taken for employee requests. Facilitated consistent business continuity plan tests and implemented emergency message system. Implemented office access process for Crowe employees, visitors and vendors across 35 locations. • Reduced cost of business $9M for Hewitt Associates Europe during organizational restructure. • Developed Aon Performance Model gaining leadership agreement to implement globally. • Rolled out performance model and learning & development solutions as part of Aon Talent Strategy. • Launched career paths and development guides in Aon University. • Led team that developed eight-week onboarding program for BoA client service employees. • Led team of 12 to prioritize, develop and deliver talent development programs globally with a $12M budget. • Delivered project charter for online training modules about Aon global broking strategies for 12K employees. • Implemented performance management system globally in six months for Aon Hewitt Consulting. • Led team of 15 HR professionals supporting 1500 employees based in UK, Netherlands, Switzerland and Poland. • Originated emergency plan after largest peace-time explosion in UK structurally damaged building for Hewitt. • Devised people strategy at State Street to integrate two organizations after M&A transaction. • Integrated leadership teams of Deutsche GSS and State Street, a $1.2B acquisition. Specialties: Project Management, Strategic Vision & Leadership, Performance Management, Organizational Development, Talent Strategies & Development, Change Management, Strategies for M&A, Budget Development & Management, Leadership Development, Engagement, Program Management, Succession, Planning, Process Improvement, Agile, Program Management, Data Analytics, Scheduling, Scope management, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project, Communication, Process improvement and Automation, Real Estate, Safety,
Project Manager for True Solutions business unit. Manage client on-boarding and process improvement projects. Project managed office move from Lisle to Naperville.
Project Manager for Global Services. Part of leadership team using automation, centralization and process improvement to transform central services support. Optimized real estate footprint reducing cost by 6M. Led safety and security program, facilitated business continuity tests and implemented global emergency message system. Established consistent access process for employees, visitors and vendors. Services included Office Management, Office Services, Safety & Business Continuity, Real Estate Management, Business Support, Project Services, Tax Services, Travel, Event Management, Technology, Production, Business Sales support.
Human Resources leader with global experience of organizations going through change due to M&A integration, rapid growth or business turnaround. With a generalist background my recent focus has been in the areas of talent management, leadership development and succession. Expertise and strengths in project management, team leadership, business acumen, building relationships across all levels, talent acquisition, compensation & benefits, human capital management, succession, organizational design, talent development, project management, M&A integration, employee relations and engagement. Specialties: Global Talent Management, Strategic Vision & Leadership, Global Performance Management, Organizational Development, HR Business Partner. Talent Strategies & Development, Change Management, People Strategies for M&A, Budget Development & Management, Leadership Development, Engagement, Program Management, Project Management, Succession, Planning, Employee Relations
Human Resources Director - Talent Chosen to take on global assignment based in Illinois. Led leadership, professional and domain development activities for 15,000 with 12 reports and a team of 60 based in US, Europe and India. Responsible for a budget of $12M. A major project was implementing the global on-boarding strategy for Bank of America client integration. Also led the build out of the online corporate university for the outsourcing business. Following the acquisition of Hewitt by Aon, I took on a US based role to support the integration. Project managed the integration of Consulting into the Success Factors performance system, partnered with McKinsey to develop the Aon performance model and established a 360 feedback process for executives. Partnered with business leaders to build out career paths and development guides on the online corporate university. Asked to develop, communicate and implement the talent strategy for 10,000 insurance professionals in North America. This included human capital management, performance, succession, leadership coaching and professional development. I facilitated manager and employee training and the selection of high potentials for leadership development programs. I also used experience to develop online training for 12,000 globally in 9 languages. Coordinated the roll-out of an "Engaging Leaders" program for the risk solutions business in North America, led the executive succession review for risk solutions globally and was responsible for the communication and training strategy for successfully implementing Workday. Specialties: Global Talent Management, Strategic Vision & Leadership, Global Performance Management, Organizational Development, HR Business Partners. Talent Strategies & Development, Change Management, People Strategies for M&A, Budget Development & Management, Leadership Development, Engagement, Program Management, Learning Management System, Succession, Planning, Employee Relations
HR Lead for 1500 based in UK, Netherlands, Switzerland and Poland. Led people strategy for organisational restructure reducing cost by $9m and moving business to profit. Led team of 20 across talent acquisition, HR business partners, development and HR systems. Trusted partner with executive leadership team on all talent issues including talent acquisition, assessment, reward, succession and development. European project lead for payroll divestiture.
Led HR function during growth from 300 to over 2500 UK employees. International HR project leader on $12 M due diligence and acquisition. Led training and implementation of global recruitment system in Europe. Project manager on various reward and benefit implementations. Provided HR leadership to 20 recruiting, generalist, training and payroll professionals with budget of $5m. Drove people strategy including human capital management, talent acquisition, succession, moving one business from $36m loss to profit in 4 years. Specialties: Global Talent Management, Strategic Vision & Leadership, Global Performance Management, Organizational Development, HR Business Partners. Talent Strategies & Development, Change Management, People Strategies for M&A, Budget Development & Management, Leadership Development, Engagement, Program Management, Learning Management System, Succession, Planning, Employee Relations