Lead the People Team’s strategy, approach, and end-to-end People solutions to support Wawa’s growth into expanded and new markets.

Development and build of Wawa’s organizational design initiatives, processes and capabilities. Strategic workforce partnership, through leading edge advisory services that enable Wawa’s business strategy

Consulting on Organizational, Talent, and Corporate Citizenship strategies, while I remain open and carefully consider my future corporate home (with a reputable, innovative, and values-based company).

Facing challenging sales results and investing in a new Global Business Services team in Poland, QVC had to take measures to lower their cost structure in the fall of 2017. The organization was flattened at certain leadership levels and several functions merged, resulting in the elimination of over 100 HQ positions. The new VP, CSR position I held was one of those affected. Plans were reduced, initiatives slowed, and the VP level role eliminated, with work distributed up, down and sideways. I was unable to transfer back into HR, because they too had to reduce their leadership levels and staff.

I will always love the Q. I feel lucky to have worked there as long as I did and am very proud of all we accomplished. However, an unintended benefit of these turn of events, is that it gave me an opportunity - I might not otherwise have taken - to discover my next “home,” where I can leverage my experience and help make a difference again.

In the meantime, I’ve had the opportunity to provide consulting on Organizational, Talent, and Corporate Citizenship strategies with some really great organizations, start-ups and non-profits.

Since I joined QVC in 1999, I've held roles of increasing responsibility and have partnered with every division in the company with the exception of Merchandising and Planning.

My client areas included (but weren't limited to):

• Broadcasting
• Programming
• Communications
• Marketing
• Creative
• Information Technology
• Human Resources
• Finance
• Legal
• Internal Audit

In this role I led the HR Business Partner team for our Corporate divisions.

We provided internal client consultation on the human resources implications of business strategies, conditions and changes, including but not limited to productivity and efficiencies, staffing, employee relations, policy development and application, benefits, compensation, and project work in support of the overall objectives of the business.

I was partner to leaders ranging from Director level to the C-Suite, and in functional areas ranging from Finance and IT to Marketing and Creative.

I also represented QVC on the ITAG Board (www.itagpa.org), a Workforce Development initiative of the Chester County Economic Development Council, in the group’s mission to promote Information Technology and Technological Processes throughout Pennsylvania

I was asked by our President & CEO,  to lead the start-up of our Ethics & Compliance Department, in support of our new Chief Compliance Officer.

My focus on Communication, Education, and Policy, resulted in implementing an enterprise-wide communication campaign and education plan, Code of Conduct training in all markets, Executive Awareness education, an aggressive IT Compliance Training program, and the development of our most important associated policies.

This was one of the coolest moments in my career.

During a global reorganization, I was offered the choice between another leadership role in HR, or the opportunity to make a "zig-zag" on the career ladder. I enthusiastically chose the zig-zag. I was still leveraging my HR strengths and skills - but essentially changing careers to start a new and global division, as well as making an impact in something I'm passionate about: Corporate Responsibility.

In this newly created role, I developed a global CSR governance process and a matrix leadership team, across the enterprise, who was collectively responsible for defining QVC’s Global CSR Strategy, identifying our highest priorities, and delivering against them. 

In our first year, we were able to also design and begin implementing an education plan for all levels of the organization, and conducted QVC's first CSR Materiality Assessment

While in this position, I proudly served on Boston College – Center for Corporate Citizenship’s (ccc.bc.edu) Executive Forum and the Retail Industry Leader’s Association’s (www.rila.org) Sustainability Committee