Bio

Contact Info: melissa@leadwithdei.com Summary Background: Results-driven leadership development expert with extensive experience in fast-paced, high-growth organizations, managing teams, spearheading leadership and diversity projects, creating efficient and effective work environments, and improving collaboration. Highlights: Designed and delivered company-wide new manager to executive leadership programs for IKEA, SAP, Linkedin, SeatGeek, WalkMe and Unity Point Health. Highly skilled in overseeing teams through all facets of complex projects, ensuring adherence to overarching strategies, policies, procedures, and objectives. Proven ability in evaluating existing operations to identify inefficiencies, redundancies, and risks, innovating process improvements to optimize workflow, maintain internal controls, and drive profitability. Forge partnerships with key stakeholders, industry leaders, and community members, to identify and cultivate key business opportunities, resulting in effective business expansion, brand awareness, client retention, talent engagement, and higher productivity levels. Develop top-performing teams, administer training, coaching and professional development through adult learning principles, curating programs and initiatives to enhance performance and KPI achievement. Expertise: -Anchoring learning strategy in company culture and values -Leadership and stakeholder buy-in, tying learning objectives to growth goals -Developing growth mindset in individuals and teams -Diversity, Equity & Inclusion and Global Mindset