• Executive Coach.  Progressive career path in counselling, mentoring, and educating diverse professionals.  Proven track record of implementing targeted action plans to maximize performance and profitability.
   
  
• Leadership Change Management Specialist.  Motivates and energizes diverse cross-functional teams as a key resource, critical thinker, and problem solver.  Consistently achieves results by increasing productivity and operational efficiency while reducing costs.
  
  
• Results-Focused Operations Manager.  Proactively builds top-performing teams and establishes key collaborative relationships with all levels of employees, from support staff to top-level executives.  Effective communicator and liaison, known for building strategic partnerships and alliances.

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Pelham Associates, Mount Vernon, NY 1996 - present
Leadership Development Instructor and Executive Coach
Maintain full accountability for providing executive level counseling and education on a diverse range of matters and industries, including, consumer products, and nonprofit organizations specializing in leadership training and development.  Demonstrate strong communication and leadership skills in effectively performing key leadership and empowerment workshops. Spearheaded a broad range of private workshops for individual and non-profit organizations, on Conflict Management, Leadership, Sponsorship Development, Change Readiness, Strategy Development, Spiritual Activism, and Effective Communication.

• Proficiently prepared and presented 25+ presentations on various research topics and areas of practice; counseled major organizations, including Wells Fargo Bank, Citibank, Gillette, Massachusetts General Hospital, NYC Department of Homeless Services, The Forest Industry, American Cancer Society, and Miriam’s Well.
• Led a broad range of successful Transitional Workshops at Theresa’s Haven Shelter (NYC Department of Homeless Services) Bronx, NY for residents leaving the facility and moving to independent living.  Topics include Activities of Daily Living, Core Concepts and Personal Power, Money, Emotions, Relationships, Sexuality, The Body, Work, and Spirituality.
• Consulted with Common Ground, a nonprofit organization assisting homeless population in New York City with navigating the Housing Placement Process and developing best practices and procedures; played a key role in placing 880 chronically homeless individuals in Brooklyn and Queens.  
• Key Representative Clients:  NYC Department of Homeless Services, Circle of Grace Community and Miriam’s Well

Pelham Associates, Mount Vernon, NY (1996-Present)
Co-Owner and Managing Director
Successfully built and steered multiple teams to maximize performance in consistently delivering projects on time and within budget in a fast-paced, time-sensitive environment requiring superior strategic planning, organization, and leadership skills.  Performed all facets of day-to-day business operations, including accounts payable, accounts receivable, payroll, and logistics.

• Authored and submitted educational materials and coordinate services for participants.
• Clients include:  Bear Stearns, J.P. Morgan Chase, Lazard Frères & Co., Aetna, Altria, Avon, Coca-Cola Company, Columbia University Executive Programs, Institute for Management Studies, Mass Mutual, Tuck School of Business, and Wyeth.

Additional Experience

Xaviar Restaurant Group, Garrison and Piermont, NY 
Co-Owner
Designed, developed, and launched three highly successful restaurants, with full accountability for directing all aspects of daily business operations, ranging from service and purchasing to personnel hiring.  Strategically planned and coordinated schedules to maximize use of human resources while controlling labor costs and meeting customer needs.

• Played a key role in the restaurants winning numerous awards and accolades, including the James Beard Award, the Wine Spectator’s Award, and received the highest rating of 29 in Zagat Guide, and an “Extraordinary” rating from The New York Times.
• Successfully built top-performing personnel vital to supporting enterprise-wide operations by strategically recruiting and effectively interviewing, screening, and testing candidates.
• Maximized human resource performance by conducting evaluations, clearly defining skill gaps, providing expert recommendations on strategic training/professional development solutions, and identifying and promoting talent.

EDUCATION

Master of Science, Organizational Change Management
Milano The New School for Management and Urban Studies, New York, NY

Bachelor of Arts in Liberal Arts
Marymount College, Tarrytown, NY

PROFESSIONAL TRAINING & DEVELOPMENT

The Leadership Circle 3600 Profile & Train the Trainer Certification,
The Leadership Circle, Slyvania, OH

Empowerment Workshop Trainer and Practitioner (Certification), Empowerment Institute, Rhinebeck, NY
Certified Counselor, 50/50 Pathwork, Woodstock, NY
Certification for Teaching Conscious Body Language
Certification for Teaching Conscious Languaging
Mastery Systems, Hendersonville, NC