The New Bohemian Innovation Collaborative (NewBoCo)Director, Innovation Services
Sep. 2019 - May. 2022Cedar Rapids, Iowa AreaServe as a corporate consultant to drive strategic development, innovative methodologies, agile practices, and leadership development in organizations seeking to build an innovative and entrepreneurial mindset in employees. • Conducted needs assessment followed by initiation and leadership of the Diversity Strategy for a 22-person organization to include recruiting, retention, ongoing training, studies, and development of quantifiable measurements of progress. • Modified the 12-month Intrapreneur Academy, an experiential and innovative leader development program, assessed existing curriculum to revise objectives to meet needs-based criteria. Intrapreneur has developed more than 60 leaders across four cohorts. • Led the study to select a learning management system to modify existing curriculum to an asynchronous environment to leverage vertical development for entrepreneurial, innovation and tech education leaders. • Planned and executive a new strategic planning process across the organization resulting in increased focus on collaboration, refocus on meetings intent, and ability to measure progress. • Identified need for and developed role as career and professional development coach in DeltaV which is Iowa’s only source for Full Stack Software Development, Network Operations, Digital Marketing and CyberSecurity (Fall 2021) Bootcamps. Focus on fundamentals of professionalism in the workplace, building resumes, interviewing, diversity and inclusion, psychological safety and as needed one on one coaching for students.