VisualCV

Offering River Dreams clients a powerful combination of personal and professional coaching and guidance.

In career development coaching sessions, clients are:
• More confident about exploring new territories
• Better able to shift viewpoint and patterns that create obstacles
• More able to make decisions that line up with intentions
• Guided toward career opportunities that match their future objectives.

In sales organizations, sales leaders develop the skills to:
• Successfully execute business critical projects
• Gain momentum and improve sales performance
• Facilitate tough decisions to accelerate momentum
• Enhance creativity and achieve goals
• Leverage strengths and see more opportunities.

Responsible for developing an implementation plan for a program with multiple projects in an IT department within the Integrated Portfolio Management group. Tasks include monitoring the status of the iteration, creating project communications plans, templates, documentation, email communications and training collateral. Also included co-managing the Professional Development Day for the Wells Fargo Home Mortgage project community including about 300 attendees and presenters.

Responsible for managing, designing, developing, producing, and updating Learning Strategies products. Collaborated with authors such as Jack Canfield, Lisa Nichols, Marci Shimoff, Bob Proctor, Bill Harris, Janet Luhrs, Stewart Emery and with Paul Scheele and Pete Bisonnette. Directed a small internal development staff and managed from 5-25 external development contractors.

Within 18-months, we developed 13 products:  47 seventy-minute audio recordings, 8 twenty-five-minute Paraliminal audio recordings, 14 one-hour Teleseminar sessions, 117 PowerPoint slides, 40 Affirmation Cards, 75 pages of articles and newsletter copy, 120 page Process Guidelines for Paraliminal development, and 1,170 pages of manuals and booklets.

Consulted with corporations to manage complex projects, facilitate strategic meetings, coach executives and  facilitate training on leadership, communication, conflict resolution and team building. One of my clients increased team productivity by 40% and reduced consulting fees by 65% over an 18-month project.

Responsible for managing the profitability of the division by leading the project and operational aspects of an interactive custom software design and development division. Managed a team of project managers, producers, assistants and operational staff. Member of the leadership team responsible for strategic direction and operational execution. In charge of developing the division's staff on communication and workflow capabilities.

Our group managed from 30-60 custom projects at a time. We worked collaboratively with other divisions in the delivery of our products, primarily online training and website development. Results included in increase from 0% to 20% in profitability within one year. Was employed by Juntunen Media Group in in October of 1999 within the Interactive Solutions group. Subsequently, the division was sold to Interpublic Group and became known as Sixty Foot Spider.

Responsible for the profitability of Jeane Thorne branch locations. Three branch managers reported to me. Directed Temporary Employee events and issues, internal training initiatives and strategic duties as a member of the leadership team.

Accomplishments included increasing gross profit from 33-35% and staff retention by 185% in 2 years. Received the designation of Certified Staffing Professional (CSP) in 1999.

Responsible for creating and growing a line of Telecommunications technical training products. A development team of project managers, instructional designers, editors, quality assurance experts, interactive developers and software programmers reported to me. Was an active member of the leadership team as we created a new strategic direction for the company.

Designed and developed proposals for custom training projects with large corporations and in overseeing successful outcomes for Applied Learning Systems and their clients.

Responsible for researching, designing, developing, implementing, evaluating and managing quality corporate training programs. Managed and collaborated with client liaisons, account managers, instructional designers, web designers, software developers, editors, interactive developers, quality assurance personnel, graphic designers and artists, audio and video producers and technicians, actors, project coordinators and a variety of production personnel.

Almost all clients were Fortune 100 and 500 corporations in financial services and dealer/distributor industries. Assigned project that focused on custom training in the areas of sales, service, communication, leadership and team building. Projects ranged from $100,000 - $3 million projects and included teams of up to 25 members. Well known for my ability to consistently produce high-quality programs within budget and on time.

Created a portfolio of over 200 financial planning clients. Assessed their current financial position, identified financial actions and sold products that helped them achieve their financial goals.

Won an award for sales production at the beginning of my career and maintained a 90% client retention rate. Received my Certified Financial Planner (CFP) designation in 1984. At the time of my employment, there were only three women in the region of 45 sales people.

Responsible for teaching band and general music to children from fifth grade through high school. Directed concerts, marching band, pep band, and regional individual and group competitions.  Developed the summer band program and taught individual and group lessons throughout the year.

The size of the bands and their abilities grew significantly during my tenure as director.