Pepperdine Graziadio Business School

Winona State University

Chief Learning Officer  at Udemy

I have joined the Udemy team to help further the company’s incredible mission of creating new possibilities for people and organizations everywhere by connecting them to knowledge and skills. I will support the employee experience through learning and organizational development, while also helping the company culture continue to evolve. I will be working with Udemy’s customers as a trusted learning advisor, helping them develop learning strategies that will guide them through this next phase of distributed work. Continuous learning is a business imperative in today’s changing world. I believe it is a key component to building a healthy culture and successful business.

Udemy

Chief Learning Officer

Forbes

Contributing Writer

Serve on the Advisory team for this investment firm focused on accelerating the best new technology companies in the Workplace, Healthcare, and Financial Tech sectors.

SemperVirens Venture Capital

HR Venture Advisor

Endeavor

Advisor

Daimler Partners

Principal

PeopleTech Partners

ThoughtSpot

Started, built and scaled both the Talent Development & Acquisition functions for ~3,500 employees. Global Responsibilities included: Leadership, Management, Individual & Community Team Development; Hiring and Onboarding; Executive Coaching; Facilitating Team sessions.

Designed & started implementing a Learning & Organizational Development strategy which included the first Management Development program rolled out to managers around the world; an accelerated leadership program; a 360 feedback tool based on the values; a business simulation; and a blended learning approach leveraging both online and offline development opportunities.

WeWork

SVP, Talent

University of San Francisco School of Management

Advisory Board Member, Masters of Science, Organization Development

Member of the 2014-2016 Board of Directors. ASTD is the world's largest professional association for training, development and workplace performance.

Association for Talent Development (ATD)

Board Member

Fulfilled on mission to not only develop great leaders, but great people. built the Learning & Organizational Development function from scratch. For Twitter’s 4,000 employees worldwide, my team executed on management, leadership, team & professional development, executive coaching, organizational consulting & talent development planning.

Twitter

Head of Learning + Organizational Development

Led a global team that transformed learning. Evolved toward a blended and collaborative approach leveraging organization's technology. Focus areas included building manager & leader capability, increasing awareness and opportunities in career management, and broadening career opportunities.

Adobe

Head of Global Learning & Development

Led organizational development efforts, org design, large scale changes, M & A integration, performance management strategy, and addressed organizational issues that emerged through the annual employee survey.

Director, Learning & Organizational Consulting

Started the first Organizational Development function and the first Coaching program. Provided both strategic and operational HR consulting services to 500+ engineering, marketing, sales HR and legal professionals in North America, Europe, and Asia. Responsibilities included talent planning, strategic recruiting, restructuring, employee relations, management & employee development, and executive coaching. Re-defined the values for Adobe to align internal employee sentiment with external customer one.

Sr. Manager, HR Consulting & Organizational Effectiveness

Was recruited to be an internal executive coach for the CEO and his team and then was quickly promoted to lead all HR efforts for the company. The programs and initiatives that I designed and implemented included: Interview Training, an Employee Referral Program, Leadership Training, Recognition Programs, Employee Welcome Program, Compensation & Incentive Programs, Performance & Success Program, Diversity Program, and the Culture and Morale Team of Epylon.


Coached the CEO and other executives on the management team; spearheaded the transition from outsourcing HR services to bringing them in-house and administering them effectively at a significant cost savings; maintained a 4.8% turnover rate (industry standard was 15-20%); wrote the company’s vision, mission and values with CEO & integrated them throughout all of Epylon’s business practices, programs and initiatives; Successfully drove major organizational changes.

Melissa Daimler