Experience

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  SOAR

  • United States

  • Coach / Mentor

    • Oct 2022 - Present
    • United States

    I am a coach/mentor for participants in SOAR Leadership Development programs. From gender-specific programming to customized internal inclusion leadership programming, SOAR prepares and advances women and minorities to senior leadership roles and is a catalyst for changing the face of corporate leadership.

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  REALM Leadership

  • Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

  • Executive Coach

    • Mar 2019 - Present
    • Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

    REALM Leadership is fully customized coaching to define and execute your unique strengths to achieve excellence as a leader. My ideal client is a professional who demonstrates excellence in their job and wants to achieve those same standards as a leader. Together we identify strategies and tactics to overcome situational roadblocks. I’d love to talk with you about your challenges in leading yourself, your team, or change in your organization.

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  Institute for the Study of Business Markets

  • Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

  • Director

    • Mar 2018 - Dec 2021
    • Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area

    ISBM is a global network of researchers and practitioners whose mission is solely to advance B2B sales and marketing efforts through research, education, and networking across a unique blend of academics and B2B CMOs and Marketers. ISBM offers member firms an intimate, commercial-free environment to information share, benchmark, network and learn new ways to drive real, sustainable growth.I lead Voice of the Customer and strategic projects to strengthen ISBM’s value proposition, restructured the training curriculum to reflect current member needs, and initiated thought leadership in a social media program.

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  LORD Corporation

  • United States
  • Industrial Machinery Manufacturing
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • President, Aerospace and Defense Global Industry Group

    • May 2017 - Feb 2018

  • President, Asia Pacfic Region

    • Jun 2012 - May 2017

    APAC region includes LORD manufacturing, technology, and sales/marketing facilities in Japan, South Korea, China, Taiwan, India, Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia and Australia. Regional HQ is in Hong Kong.

  • VP, Global Marketing and Business Development

    • Jul 2010 - Jun 2012

  • Various Positions in Technology, Manufacturing, Marketing and Business Management

    • Jul 1979 - Jul 2010

    Began career at LORD Corporation in 1979 as a Material and Process Engineer in Erie, Pa.1984 - joined the Aerospace Product Design group and subsequently held engineering and management positions in design, manufacturing, global sales and marketing in the LORD's aerospace business.2005- Director of Marketing Communications and Customer Service; led the introduction of corporate-wide customer engagement and account management processes.2007 - Director of Marketing and Sales for Electronics and Automotive Markets in NA, with a focus on adhesives and coatings. 2009 I was named Director of Elastomer Process Materials Value Stream, with responsibility for global P&L of this business segment.