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Executive Director, Strategic HR / Organizational and Leadership Development

Sofia is a Talent Development Strategist, Workplace Behavior Expert, Human Resources Leader, Communications and Media Consultant, and a Business Coach. She has over 17 years of experience in talent development and optimization, human capital management, learning and organizational development, executive coaching, leadership development, change management, career coaching, and full cycle talent management application. She enjoys working collaboratively with her clients to solve business problems, build organizational capability and improve business and people performance. Sofia specializes in facilitation to support individuals, teams and organizations through times of change, and is passionate about aligning neuroscience and people development to organizational business strategies, purpose and values. She is an experienced Executive Coach committed to leadership development and talent growth.

Education includes a Bachelors degree in Psychology, a Masters degree in Instructional Technology, and doctoral studies in Educational Psychology and Technology from USC. She also has a certification in Mediating the Litigated Case from Pepperdine University’s School of Law, Straus Institute for Dispute Resolution, and training from Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE). Sofia has a Brain-Based coaching certification from the NeuroLeadership Institute and is a certified facilitator in the Reach METHOD. She has served on public and private boards and is a speaker at conferences, management retreats and a contributor at business seminars.

Representative HR, Organizational Effectiveness, Talent Management, Career Development, and Executive Coaching Accomplishments:

Designed and led an enterprise-wide succession planning and career development initiative for a North American public agency that has addressed the leadership development needs of over 1000 employees and leaders.
Established strategic initiatives, organization wide communications plans and learning programs to propel the achievement of corporate goals, enhance talent performance, and drive human capital success, resulting in significant increase in productivity and effectiveness for a Venture Capital enterprise.
Created customized training and development programs for organizations in the financial industry, higher education, real estate, public utility and automotive industries.
Served as an executive coach for High Potential Leadership program participants from across varying industries.
Designed and implemented a post-merger talent, organizational and culture integration initiative and process for several North American automotive organizations.
Served as the leader in charge of managing Talent Acquisition teams in designing, implementing and updating mission-critical strategies to maximize productivity, minimize turnover and hire quality talent for three Southern California organizations with a hiring volume of over 1000 positions.
Created a comprehensive talent acquisition strategy, to attract and retain quality talent to drive innovation for a public agency with over 5000 employees.
Provided Organizational Development consultancy, process streamlining, career management coaching and services to fortune 500 and mid size organizations from the financial services, energy, healthcare, manufacturing, and commercial real estate industries.
Developed and facilitated a competency-based leadership development, recruitment, selection and evaluation program for three Southern California organizations with a combined over 3000 employees and leaders.
Delivered and facilitated 360 assessment and feedback programs for a wide range of C-suite executives and managers.
Provided strategic planning, assessment and leadership development services over a 3 year period, for the executive leadership team of a regional energy corporation.
Provided recruitment, HR services and coaching to managers and high-potential managers in an international distribution Corporation.
Conducted leadership seminars for senior leadership from 8 privately held companies.
Served as an advisor and coach to CEOs from corporations in the healthcare, financial services and public utility industries.
Provided customer service, communications, management and leadership training to the banking industry.

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