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Colleen Olson

Portland,CA

Summary

Seasoned HR professional bringing over20 years of experience leading and executing HR Strategy across functional and leadership teams. Currently responsible for leading HR Strategy for the Global Finance & Strategy, focused on: Leadership and management development Talent Development Diversity & Inclusion Talent Planning and Management Strategic Workforce Planning Talent Acquisition Organizational Design and Effectiveness

Overview

29
29
years of professional experience

Work History

Talent Management, APLA (Asia Pacific and Latin America)

Nike
05.2024 - Current
  • Leads Team & Talent for Nike's Asia Pacific and Latin America teams, delivering an integrated talent strategy to grow and support our talent across the employee lifecycle

Human Resources, Global Finance & Strategy

Nike
02.2015 - 06.2024
  • HR business professional focused on executing the HR strategy across the Global Finance & Strategy functions, with key responsibilities for focused on human resources operations, team and talent acquisition, engagement, and development, and organizational effectiveness
  • Finance and Strategic Planning

Talent Management Nike Sport Marketplace

Nike
05.2022 - 05.2024

Partner with Business and HR leaders across our Nike's Stores, Digital and Sales to team to know, grow, and enable our senior leadership teams.

Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP), Global Finance & Strategy

Nike
02.2017 - 05.2022
  • Delivered organizational thought leadership and partnership across multiple business functions, creating team cultures that inspire talent to maximize themselves, the team, and their functions
  • Focused on achieving team success through the development and execution of a connected HR strategy with support to the800+ global team members in multiple geographies
  • Provided a sharp focus on strengthening leadership talent, building high-performing teams, driving transformational change, and ensuring a strong population of capable, equipped leaders

Student in Masters of Science in Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning Program

Boise State University
08.2012 - 07.2014
  • Completed Boise State University's MS Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning in July2014
  • Partnered with organizations to conduct a variety of Organizational Performance projects that applied Human Performance Technology frameworks, models, and concepts
  • This included projects focused on improving performance such as, needs assessment, change management, instructional and non-instructional design, and program evaluation
  • Received Boise State's OPWL Award of Excellence, and partnered with professors and colleagues to share learnings through Performance Improvement-based publications, conferences, and graduate resources

Senior Project Manager

Mercer Leadership Development
09.2010 - 07.2012
  • Led project teams in the creation and implementation of large-scale leadership development solutions, including through needs assessment, design, development, implementation, and evaluation
  • Deep expertise managing multi-phase projects with global delivery to executive, senior leader, manager, and employee groups
  • Designed, implemented, and managed a wide-range of learning and blended learning solutions, including experiential, face-to-face, performance aids, action learning, change management, simulations, in-market immersions, eLearning, and web-based portals
  • Provided consulting and design experience in the creation of learning architectures that connect long-term, high impact solutions across organizational leadership levels and embed key performance objectives
  • Managed the complexities of global solution implementations including managing stakeholder needs, budget requirement, cultural variances, faculty sourcing, and participant needs

Project Manager

Oliver Wyman
01.2009 - 01.2009
  • Worked closely with client and internal project teams on the design and development of unique blended learning solutions

Sole Proprietorship

CO IDesigns
01.2003 - 01.2008
  • As owner of CO IDesigns I delivered a wide-range of instructional design, program management, writing and employee communications, and event planning services
  • Speciality projects focused on:
  • Created custom learning solutions for several Fortune1000 and500 companies focused on building core leadership and management skills critical to organizational success
  • Wrote, edited, and published customer relations, employee training and communication materials
  • Created and implemented several interactive, team building events and simulations that support employee engagement and culture building

Senior Instructional Designer and Global Project Management Specialist

Dove Consulting
01.1997 - 01.2002
  • As a Program Manager and Instructional Designer for Dove Consulting Learning Design Group I designed and implemented custom learning solutions to a wide range of Fortune1000 and500 companies spanning a variety of industries, including financial, retail, technology, pharmaceutical, consumer products, and more
  • During this time I developed a passion for leadership and management development, and successfully navigating job transitions

Training Specialist

Northwest Airlines
01.1996 - 01.1997

Education

BA - Communications, Public Relations and Journalism

University of Washington

Masters of Science - Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning

Boise State University
01.2014

Skills

  • Talent Management
  • HR Strategy
  • Leadership Development
  • Stakeholder and Leader Management
  • Team Leadership and Development

Publications

  • Case Study Evaluating a Competitive Soccer Club's College Advisory Program
  • A Systematic Evaluation of a Soccer Club's College Advisory Program
  • A Needs Assessment of ITSS, Inc.
  • Career Development Opportunities

Timeline

Talent Management, APLA (Asia Pacific and Latin America)

Nike
05.2024 - Current

Talent Management Nike Sport Marketplace

Nike
05.2022 - 05.2024

Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP), Global Finance & Strategy

Nike
02.2017 - 05.2022

Human Resources, Global Finance & Strategy

Nike
02.2015 - 06.2024

Student in Masters of Science in Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning Program

Boise State University
08.2012 - 07.2014

Senior Project Manager

Mercer Leadership Development
09.2010 - 07.2012

Project Manager

Oliver Wyman
01.2009 - 01.2009

Sole Proprietorship

CO IDesigns
01.2003 - 01.2008

Senior Instructional Designer and Global Project Management Specialist

Dove Consulting
01.1997 - 01.2002

Training Specialist

Northwest Airlines
01.1996 - 01.1997

Masters of Science - Organizational Performance and Workplace Learning

Boise State University

BA - Communications, Public Relations and Journalism

University of Washington
Colleen Olson