Transformational Leader, Trauma Author & Women’s Mentor.
Your life is like a beautiful tapestry, a fine work of art woven together with the good, the bad, and the in-between. During the process, you will feel uncomfortable, and it will look messy in the middle, but in the end, your sense of self becomes an exquisite design.
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MEET DR. LEE
I’m a transformative, energetic, and results-driven Executive Leader with over 20 years of experience redefining organizational development and delivering hands-on training and enterprise leadership to maximize employee experiences and community development. I’m regarded as an inclusive, intentional, and engaging presenter actively educating and impacting communities to deliver positive results. I embrace a learning culture to empower organizations by propelling operational effectiveness across multiple disciplines and levels.
As a Maximizer I enjoy developing and implementing dynamic learning strategy, reporting tools, and effective procedures to achieve business excellence. My multi-entity career encompasses non-profits, government, and private sector companies poised for growth and increased impact. I have successfully administered budgets and delivers funding awards valued at up to $45M. Applies and continuously strengthens learning management systems, implements data tracking tools, and handles reporting to ensure programs attain targeted objectives.
As a connector I cultivate strategic working partnerships with senior management, business leaders, sponsors, employees, and community stakeholders to discover strategic needs, engage resources, and create optimal solutions to generate value. I am highly skilled at managing simultaneous projects, teams, and initiatives, influencing up to 23 departments, 4,700 employees, and 8.4M constituents. I flourish in progressive organizations where expertise in team building, community engagement, and program management are highly valued.
ACHIEVEMENTS
- Instituted CommUnify’s new Learning Academy featuring an integrated learning management system and premier staff professional development and leadership development programs to support staff professional development through public-private-partnerships.
- Conceived the development and implementation of the “first-ever” Community Action Virtual Onboarding(C.A.V.O.) platform to propel statewide capacity building and network engagement and learning.
- Serving a grant-making committee member with the Fund for Santa Barbara to advance race, equity, & social change initiatives across the County of Santa Barbara.
- Reorganized County’s Employee University from a traditional employee training unit into a visionary organizational and talent development with a no cost allocation model that enabled 4700 employees to participate in staff and leadership development programs.
- Created and unveiled multiple leadership development and retention programs, featuring Recruitment, Branding, & the organization’s first Leadership Certification program to retain top talent and build the next generation of leaders at the County organization.
- Partnered with the entire H.R. Department, Santa Barbara City College, and multiple community-based organizations to execute the “Passport to Public Service in Paradise” Overcame hiring barriers and build greater community access to county government employees. Built a pipeline of previously untapped talent.
- Led the creation and successful launch of the COSB 360 Podcast program to engage leaders and keep the community and workforce informed about the C.O.S.B.’S strategic priorities and impact.
- Co-created the O.I.N race equity framework, an acronym for Join Hands, Open Hearts and Minds, Ignite Action, and Navigate Change in the wake of George Floyd’s killing subsequent protest including the development and launch of learning programs to cultivate a civil and respectful workplace.
- Teamed with pharmaceutical companies, local foundations, and philanthropies to develop and implement clinical programs, including Mil Familias (award-winning, 10-year initiative improving the lives of Latino families impacted by diabetes).
- Drove positive outcomes from the “Communities Putting Prevention to Work” Delivered subject matter expertise and facilitated Investigators & staff concerning research administration, intellectual property issues, grant spending, and reporting.
- Earned recognition by N.Y.C. Commissioner, the senior leadership of NYC DOHMH, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (C.D.C.), and the office of Mayor Michael Bloomberg for successfully executing the operational plan and applying electronic systems to track agreement negotiations.
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Black Leadership Roundtable: Cautious optimism after a tumultuous year
With the anniversary of the murder of George Floyd approaching, the Business Times asked 10 Black leaders in the tri-county business community to talk about the past year and the expanded debate about race relations that has been ongoing across the region and the nation. Our panel includes leaders in aviation, hospitality, health care, biotechnology, information technology, financial services, higher education and philanthropy….
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