Brenda Boswell

Serve as project point person on specific segments of employee engagement for internal communications, onboarding, events, recognition and pulse survey action planning to support retention and engagement.

• Managing variety of business meetings, and employee events from setting objectives, to sourcing, budgeting, relationship and execution of events.
• Create relevant and engaging employee event: theme, budget, and marketing plan
• Source suitable venue, negotiate contract and book it
• Find and contract vendors, and manage vendor relationships, and negotiate >$10k - $500k contracts.
• Effective collaborator between customers, vendors and internal departments.
• Consistently meet with stakeholders and maintain productive relationships.
• Managing budgets: Forecasting, and tracking expenses, finding efficiencies to cut costs, and meet budget goal.
• Managing clients: Liaise with clients and suppliers, and collaborate with them before and during events

• Handled a variety of complex administrative support to the Chair and Faculty of the Biochemical Engineering Department (updating Faculty published research papers on Scholar.Google.com.
• Liaison and point person for graduate student recruitment - hosting campus tours, and facilitating other social events on / off campus.
• Updated confidential exams, processed financial student disbursements.

Managed employee survey, rewards and recognition programs, events and community relations. Worked with senior leadership to design and implement process actions for improvements to address survey responses.

• Created and implemented 20+ quarterly employee engagement pop-up events, earned recognition for numerous “Spot Awards”; improved engagement scores (minimum) 50% year-over-year.

• Saved $80,000+ leading Atlanta HQ rebranding project completing project 3-weeks ahead of scheduled and under budget.

• Organized all-hands meetings for 5,000+ employees.

• Saved $250,000 food and beverage entertainment budget, and reduced annual service fees 20% implementing a preferred vendor list and negotiated fixed rates.

Ranked 90th percentile post-conference survey scores.