Experience

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  Reece USA

  • Addison, Texas, United States

  • Vice President People Growth

    • Jun 2021 - Present
    • Addison, Texas, United States

    Strategic innovator and architect of all things talent management, building a new team focused on making Reece USA a place where people want to grow their careers. People growth fuels business growth!

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  Southern Methodist University - Cox School of Business

  • Dallas, Texas, United States

  • Adjunct Professor

    • Jan 2021 - Present
    • Dallas, Texas, United States

    Designed a brand-new MBA level Management in Action Project course for the Master of Science in Management program. The course provides students real world consulting experience to prepare them for post-graduate roles.

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  We Ignite Potential

  • Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

  • Founder

    • Apr 2020 - Present
    • Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex

    Consult with leaders to ignite the potential of their people through individual, team, and organizational solutions.

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  Dallas

  • Dallas/Fort Worth Area

  • Sabbatical in between successes

    • Jan 2019 - Dec 2019
    • Dallas/Fort Worth Area

    Travelled the world to learn about other cultures to increase my diversity consciousness.

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  American Airlines

  • United States
  • Airlines and Aviation
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • Director, Talent Development | Head of Talent Management, Leadership/Organization Development

    • Mar 2014 - Dec 2018

    Built a new team post-merger that focused on tools and processes to enable leaders to make culture a competitive advantage at the world’s largest airline. Led talent management, leadership development, high potential programs, assessments, and organization development.• Designed leadership competencies and talent management strategy (including a no-ratings performance management approach) aligned to desired company culture. • Created and led process for companywide review (by top 65 officers) of executive talent (top 600 leaders), succession planning, and high potential identification and development, which drove increased diverse representation at the executive levels of the company and ensured a strong bench of talent for the future.• Implemented Emergenetics (personality assessment) with business units, post-merger, to accelerate team startup while establishing companywide language for understanding and managing individual style differences.• Rolled-out the first company-wide team member engagement survey, designed as an inclusion-focused and leader-led process to listen and act on feedback, that resulted in over 200 listening sessions held across the company and local action plans for all leaders to act on the feedback. • Centralized process for leveraging external consultants and aligned them to corporate strategy, which allowed for creating a larger extended team when scalability for large initiatives or specialized skillsets were needed.

  • Manager, Recruiting Strategy and Talent Development

    • Jul 2012 - Mar 2014

    Spearheaded all aspects of recruiting strategy, leadership development, and onboarding improvements.• Established industry-leading selection processes for flight attendants and pilots, designed to select successful candidates using the latest tools, resulting in hiring ~1500 flight attendants and ~300 pilots per year. • Created new hire orientation program designed to connect new hires to the company and leaders.

  • Manager, Joint Business Effectiveness

    • Sep 2010 - Jul 2012

    Supported the implementation of the $7 billion shared joint business between American Airlines, British Airways, and Iberia as part of the first trilateral management team.• Championed improvements to collaborative health between three former competitors, including designing and leading conferences for senior leaders, consulting to working groups managing each part of the business, coaching the trilateral management team as we developed business infrastructure and processes to run the joint business.• Developed processes to improve effectiveness of joint business governance, including surveys and feedback, and reporting on collaborative health metrics.• Engaged employees in the concepts of the joint business, including creating and editing a biweekly newsletter that was source material for internal communicators at all three airlines, and designing forums held at critical airports.

  • Manager, Organization Development

    • Jul 2007 - Sep 2010

    Led OD activities primarily in the airport services organization.• Designed a leadership development program for 1500 airport managers. Program was driven through engagement of leaders at all levels including an executive steering committee.• Provided strategic support for the global HR team and Joint Leadership Teams initiative.• Delivered talent management, team development, leadership coaching, collaborative workshop design and implementation, and change management support.

  • Senior Consultant, Organization Development

    • Jul 2006 - Jun 2007

    Supported OD activities primarily in the marketing organization.

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  Procorp Associates

  • Hamilton, Mississippi

  • Organization Development Consultant - Tronox / Kerr-McGee Chemical

    • Feb 2005 - Dec 2005
    • Hamilton, Mississippi

    Tronox / Kerr-McGee Chemical - Consultant to High Performance Organization Implementation Initiative• Worked with leaders to implement a plant-wide transition to a team based, high performance organization. • Guided the development of organizational systems to support the new structure.

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  University of North Texas

  • Denton, Texas

  • Consultant & Researcher - Center for the Study of Work Teams

    • Jul 1999 - Feb 2005
    • Denton, Texas

    Senior ConsultantConsulted to organizations changing to support effective collaboration, primarily through developing steering committee and design groups, educating on key concepts, and facilitating implementation plan development.• Developed a workshop (companion to Guiding the Journey to Collaborative Work Systems) to guide those leading collaborative change efforts through a holistic design process that creates the framework for successfully changing the organization to support collaboration and improve business results. • Client organizations included: Guardian Automotive Products, Millennium Chemicals, Wellmark International Operations, Excel Paralubes, Johnson-Diversey, Guardian Automotive Products, and National City Bank.Research Associate“Transformations to Quality Organizations” project funded by the National Science Foundation.

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  Center for Creative Leadership

  • Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

  • Research Intern

    • Oct 2000 - Dec 2001
    • Colorado Springs, Colorado Area

    Managed Team-Based Organizations research project.

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  Chromalloy Dallas

  • Dallas/Fort Worth Area

  • Assistant Manager Human Resources

    • Jun 1993 - Sep 1996
    • Dallas/Fort Worth Area

    Human Resources generalist for a company of 400. • Managed hourly hiring process, drug testing, and performance reviews. • Developed New Hire Orientation. Administered attitude surveys and led feedback sessions. Designed and implemented employee policies.• Recruited a new insurance company for health insurance and led enrollment.