Ownership
Clear expectations paired with the trust and latitude to make good decisions.
People strategy · Practice growth · Executive partnership
I help leaders translate workforce complexity into clear strategy, scalable solutions, stronger teams, and measurable business outcomes.
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My point of view
The strongest growth strategies begin with a precise understanding of people, capability, and the work that needs to get done.
Leadership mindset
Influenced by Daniel Pink’s thinking on motivation, I build environments where people can exercise sound judgment, deepen their capabilities, and connect daily work to a meaningful outcome.
Clear expectations paired with the trust and latitude to make good decisions.
Coaching, feedback, and increasingly challenging work that builds real capability.
A visible connection between individual contribution, team commitments, and organizational purpose.
Digital transformation
I believe technology should make work clearer—not simply more automated. I combine workforce data, digital tools, and leader judgment to identify patterns, focus action, and measure whether change is working.
Attendance analysis revealed recurring patterns. Clear communication and consistent manager accountability turned that insight into measurable improvement.
The DSEL approach
A disciplined way to move from complexity to action—combining human-centered leadership with innovation, data, and measurable progress.
Listen deeply, examine the workforce data, and understand the business context before defining the problem. The right solution begins with the right question.
Translate insight into a focused, practical plan—aligning people, priorities, partners, and organizational capacity around the outcomes that matter.
Move strategy into disciplined action, using innovation, digital tools, and measurable indicators to learn quickly and strengthen results.
Create the conditions for autonomy, mastery, and purpose: clear expectations, trusted ownership, meaningful development, and connection to a shared goal.
Selected impact
Experience across high-growth, multistate, regulated, and unionized environments.
Leadership in action
Selected examples of how I connect people strategy to the priorities of the organization.
Scale & infrastructure
At Builders Capital, workforce growth from approximately 25 to roughly 300 employees required HR infrastructure that could keep pace across a complex multistate footprint.
Mapped varied employee populations, compensation arrangements, payroll requirements, benefits eligibility, and state obligations; partnered with vendors and executives to build scalable payroll, benefits, and retirement practices.
Created a stronger operating foundation for continued expansion, reduced fragile workarounds, and balanced employee experience with compliance and financial sustainability.
Team leadership
Boeing needed to hire rapidly across Washington to support defense, commercial-airplane production, and aircraft delivery commitments.
Directed and trained an approximately 20-person recruiting team across multiple hiring stations, coordinated vendors, and aligned execution with operational workforce priorities.
The broader initiative supported more than 4,000 hires in one quarter and strengthened staffing across multiple Boeing businesses.
Analytics & accountability
The 787 program was experiencing labor loss that affected reliable staffing and manufacturing operations.
Worked with a focused team to analyze attendance patterns, identify recurring drivers, clarify workforce expectations, and equip leaders to apply policy consistently.
Labor loss decreased by approximately 30% in the following quarter—demonstrating the power of clear data, communication, and manager accountability.
Organization design
A rapidly growing organization needed a more sustainable engineering and IT model, with clearer decisions about internal capability and strategic outsourcing.
Analyzed roles, costs, capabilities, and business requirements; helped restructure the function, recruited the Head of Technology, and aligned the new model to future needs.
Reduced costs, strengthened internal capability, and established the foundation for a technology organization that grew to approximately 30 people.
Workforce transformation
As Boeing prepared to close production of the iconic 747, employees across the program faced changes to their work, shifts, locations, and continued employment.
Partnered area by area with managers and the skills team to map affected employees, transferable capabilities, closeout timing, and available work; coordinated job, shift, and location transitions while keeping final production appropriately staffed.
Completed the workforce transition without layoffs among the employees in the population I supported, preserving critical talent and helping management close the program responsibly.
Total rewards & change
During growth from roughly 25 to approximately 300 employees, the existing heavily company-paid benefits model was no longer financially sustainable.
Worked with leadership and benefits partners to evaluate plan design, coverage, contributions, deductibles, and total cost; then met individually with employees to explain the changes and help them understand their options.
Implemented a more scalable benefits structure while giving employees transparent, individualized support through a difficult change—balancing financial discipline with trust and employee care.
Connected capability
Deep HR domain expertise, connected across the moments that matter most to employers.
Digital leadership
I use OpenAI, ChatGPT, Claude, Manus AI, people analytics, and workflow automation to expand capacity and strengthen decision-making. I also develop practical, responsible applications—including RESET, an AI-assisted workplace conflict-resolution and manager-development platform.
Foundation
Senior Professional in Human Resources
Management, Human Resources focus
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