Cornell University

Marshall High School

Head of Human Resources, President at Ipsos North America

Providing strategic HR advise and insights to senior executive clients in need of advisory services
•	Serving on the HR Thought Leadership Counsel for a national non-profit with the CEO and CHRO to develop a people strategy that supports the three pillars of the ambitious 3 year long-term strategic plan. The vision is to innovate the service offerings of the organization and platform it into a new sector, making it a distinct hybrid provider of social and healthcare services.
•	Served as the Interim CHRO for a global tech company to help with rightsizing the organization and lead the team through the process and change management of a large scale action. 
•	Served as a coach and advisor to a newly promoted CHRO in a high-growth, international technology company with systematic challenges in culture, talent management, organizational design, and M&A.  Provided guidance on a People Strategy for the organization. 
•	Provided partnership, coaching, and advisory services to develop strategies and approaches for various HR challenges for senior executives on topics such as organizational structure, DEI, complex employee relations scenarios, personal promotion and compensation strategies, immigration advise, etc.

Freelance

Senior Executive HR Advisor and Consultant / Coach

Provided strategic human resources leadership at Ipsos, one of the largest global market research and insights organizations in the world with people and relationships serving as the critical backbone of successful business growth.  Worked with the CEO and the executive leadership team to define value-added and impactful HR initiatives that inspired employees and drove a high-performance, agile, and innovative culture in an ever-evolving competitive external landscape.

Ipsos in North America

Head of Human Resources, President 

Partnered with business executives to determine human resources strategy and key priorities driving organizational strategy.  Advising, challenging, consulting, coaching, and providing insights to leadership to make informed, well educated human capital decisions.

Senior Human Resources Strategic Business Partner 

MORTGAGE BANKING:  Global Head of Organizational Development and Strategic Projects
Lead large scale, Mortgage Banking wide strategic people initiative impacting a population of over 35,000 employees globally including cultural transformation, employee satisfaction/ employee experience, people metric scorecard, OCC Consent and Dodd-Frank related work, talent management strategy, and other key change management projects. 

TREASURY AND SECURITY SERVICES: Global Head of Training & Development Operations
Designed, developed and executed strategic Organizational Development/Effectiveness projects and provide operational support for Training & Development Programs for Treasury & Securities Services at JP Morgan. Provide strategic oversight to the global Training Operations function in support of over 100+ trainers. Develop HR metrics, analytics and reporting for HR function.

JPMorgan Chase

Global Head of Organizational Development and Strategic Initiatives

Identified, managed and executed strategic HR initiatives and people projects that drove long term vision of the organization.

Kaplan

Director of HR Strategic Initiatives

Provided insight and guidance for any National Board or National Executive Committee projects and intiatives for Minds Matter. Develops strategic direction, scopes project and provides flawless execution.

Minds Matter of NYC

Executive Director - National Strategy

Lead several OD projects as a consultant including:
•	External best practice research project to build innovative global diversity strategy for the organization. 
•	Created a Change Management framework and 14 piece toolkit to be utilized as the grounding framework to train and up skill 300+ HR staff globally.      
•	Project managed a global initiative that utilized Appreciative Inquiry 360 feedback to define core cultural values.  Brainstormed plan to integrate cultural values into HR enabling systems and processes.; - Created and delivered the Goal Development and Development Planning People Leader Information Sessions for over 100+ managers and senior executives to trigger leadership engagement for the annual PMP process.
•	Created a Diversity Snapshot analysis report for line of business to identify and spotlight potential areas of concern and develop stronger diversity goals.

HSBC

Organizational Development Consultant

GLOBAL DIVERSITY &  INCLUSION, DIRECTOR OF DIVERSITY ANALYTICS 	
Created and executed the Global Diversity Metrics Strategy which included:  defining 3 new global metrics, creating bi-annual diversity snapshots reports for lines, and Diversity Hot Spots analysis reports.  Worked with global team to streamline 6 MIS and over 20 supporting stakeholders to align and extract reliable, consistent, timely, and valid data to analyze trends and spotlight areas of concern to feed the diversity strategy. 

ORGANIZATIONAL CAPABILITIES AND PERFORMANCE GROUP, DIRECTOR OF ORGANIZATIONAL EFFECTIVENESS
Lead a large variety of Organizational Effectiveness project teams to consult on a spectrum of people strategy issues, developed new insights, and presented findings to senior executives.  Also responsible for managing the Global People Strategy and annual goal setting process for the SVP of Human Resources.

American Express

Director

EQUITIES:  Business Office
Served as the Human Resources Liaison for the CIO of Equities for his 2000 person global organization and spearheaded several strategic HR initiatives including the creation of the global rotational training program for 40 students, a 1 day global orientation program, and the communications strategy for the CIO.
	

INHOUSE CONSULTING:  Change Management & Project Management service line practice leader.   Elected to head a team of 10 members to formulate a business case for service line implementation in New York.  Coordinated with global leaders on training and knowledge management for team.

Deutsche Bank

Worked in the Human Resources division of the Management Consulting Group to create innovative solutions to transform and motivate workforces to achieve aggressive business and individual performance goals through projects such as the worldwide SAP implementation for Human Resources Process reengineering and training and courseware development of the SAP implementation.

Ernst & Young

Senior Consultant

HUMAN RESOURCES STRATEGIES GROUP (HRS), CONSULTANT			                 
Served as a consultant to many midsized company senior executives on a variety of Human Resources related projects such as Human Resources process reengineering, job evaluation &; description development, org design, cultural assessment, executive compensation benchmarking studies, and training needs assessment.

ACTUARY CONSULTING GROUP, ASSOCIATE CONSULTANT 					
Served as an actuarial Employee Benefits consultant for pension & retiree medical plans.  Performed actuarial valuations of defined benefit pension plans in compliance with the Employee Retirement Income Security Act regulations.  Conducted actuarial valuations of the Retiree Medical Plans in accordance with Financial Accounting Standards Board Statement # 106.  Created calculation programs to determine employee retirement benefits under Joint Survivor, Certain Life, Life Annuity, Early Retirement, Normal Retirement, etc. scenarios.

Debi Lee