Professional Summary
- More than 25 years of experience providing intercultural management training programs for organizations including Ford, GM, Hewlett-Packard, UPS, Johnson and Johnson, Procter and Gamble, Pricewaterhouse Coopers, Johnson Controls, Coca Cola, Diageo, Intel, Motorola, Merck, GE Healthcare, Dow Corning, Avon, 3M, and Honeywell. Managed the assessment, design, development and delivery of global talent development solutions for organizations based in China, Asia Pacific, the Americas and Europe.
- Conducted global leadership and management programs, designed and facilitated multicultural team building programs, and facilitated global business skill-building programs. Also designed and delivered train-the-trainer programs to certify internal trainers for the delivery of global diversity, intercultural awareness and skills, global mobility, and global leadership programs.
- Internal global learning management experience with a Fortune 200 company. As the Global Learning Manager, successfully created a worldwide comprehensive global talent development strategy and managed its implementation.
- International Development training experience – two years in refugee assistance education in the Philippines, four combined years in Nepal as Director of Training for the U.S. Peace Corps Program and Management Training Specialist for an Asian Development Bank education project in Nepal’s National Ministry of Education.
- Senior Trainer for Leadership Development for a national healthcare company in the U.S. with 40,000 employees.
- Director of Training in the Financial Services sector: transformed a traditional training department into a performance consulting unit utilizing Human Performance Improvement (HPI) methodology and Performance-Based Training.
- Earned a Doctor of Education degree from the Center for International Education at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst, a Master of International Administration degree in Intercultural Management from the School for International Training and a Bachelor of Art in Sociology from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Lived and worked in China, Japan, Nepal, and the Philippines for a combined 12 years. Currently living in Chicago and Madison, WI and available for engagements worldwide.