Experience

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  NuBrick Partners

  • Chicago, Illinois, United States

  • Senior Consultant | Healthcare

    • Apr 2019 - Present
    • Chicago, Illinois, United States

    Building high performance healthcare enterprise leaders and teams. From executive leadership and succession planning to board development, our integrated, systemic approach to executive talent focuses on leadership training and development and executive team performance at all levels of an organization.Delivering and managing engagement deliverables across within the health care industry.Select healthcare clients include: City of Hope Hospital for Special Surgery Mainline Health Northern Arizona Healthcare Medical Group Medica Wellmark BCBS ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education)

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  Downey Associates Consulting

  • Chicago, Illinois, United States

  • Principal

    • Jan 2005 - Present
    • Chicago, Illinois, United States

    * Coaching and consulting with senior leaders to develop their resilience and executive agency, and to align with critical stakeholders during executive team transitions, onboarding, merger and acquisition *Integrating self awareness practices and scripted messaging for leaders to adapt, persuade, and negotiate with their colleagues and work community* Developing industry specific workforce plans for privately held firms with global growth, and healthcare enterprises*Designing leadership and development programs across healthcare, manufacturing, finance and professional services including Fortune 100 companies, and family-run businesses. *Collaborating with internal client teams and designing stakeholder communications during planned change, such as ERP integration, merger and acquisition, and during unplanned change such as crisis

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  Monar Consulting, Inc.

  • Chicago, Illinois, United States

  • HR Business Partner

    • Dec 2013 - Feb 2023
    • Chicago, Illinois, United States

    *Aligning talent management initiatives with organizational strategies to elevate client's talent scorecard *Advising on succession planning for family run and closely held businesses and organizationsIndustries served: Healthcare, manufacturing, technology, legal, construction, and financial services industries, including non profit arts organizations and medical associations.

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  Porter Novelli

  • United States
  • Public Relations and Communications Services
  • 700 & Above Employee

  • PN Consulting | Senior Consultant, Executive Effectiveness

    • Jan 2004 - Dec 2005

    *Coached executives and teams to gain personal and professional awareness into their behaviors through insight-driven coaching methodologies*Prepped executives for media and other public speaking engagements*Integrated empathic listening and responding sessions with business performance feedback to elevate senior leadership and team performance Partial client list includes: Merck/Medco - Astra Zeneca - Cardinal Health - JP Morgan - Boys and Girls Club

  • PN Consulting | Senior Consultant Institutional Branding

    • Oct 2002 - Dec 2003

    * Developed crisis communication strategies and branding strategies to mitigate organizational risk for internal and external stakeholders during planned and unplanned change. *Defined client mission, vision, and purpose for international subsidiaries to critically align with corporate values and achieve growth targets in new markets * Select clients include JP Morgan - Merck Medco - Micron Technologies - Boys and Girls Club

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  Now Foods

  • Greater Chicago Area

  • Director of Marketing

    • Aug 2001 - Sep 2002
    • Greater Chicago Area

    Led marketing strategy and multimedia team for 55 year old family run, dietary supplement and cosmetic manufacturer*Developed B2B and B2C strategic initiatives during ERP implementation*Led 5 year institutional branding strategy to recover from corporate product crisis *Designed and managed concurrent engineering process for new product development team to source, manufacture and market to North and South American markets, and reduce time to market*Increased HABA brand category revenue by 20% within 12 months

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  Downey & Associates North American Distribution Advisors

  • Chicago, Illinois, United States

  • Principal

    • 1990 - 2001
    • Chicago, Illinois, United States

    * Managed supply chain for consumer packaged products divisions ofInternational pharmaceutical and cosmetic manufacturers*Advised principals on dietary supplement and cosmetic ingredient sourcing, labeling, and regulatory import requirements for N and S American mass market, and specialized health markets* Developed B2B strategies with program implementation for retail and wholesale mass markets. Asta Medica, Degussa health products division; Herb UK Ltd, Arkopharma/Health from the Sun; Pharmaton, a Boehringer Ingelheim health products division, Borlind of Germany

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  Goodwill Industries International

  • St Louis, Missouri, United States

  • Public Relations Manager

    • 1988 - 1990
    • St Louis, Missouri, United States