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Overview
Work History
Education
Skills
Certification
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Jamie F Goddard

Oakland,CA

Summary

Collaborative leader, manager, coach, and thought partner dedicated to increasing talent engagement at all levels of an organization. An engaging systems thinker with a roll-up-the-sleeves, emotionally-intelligent approach to delivering impactful shifts and solutions. Expertise launching new initiatives and improving existing organizational challenges.

Overview

30
30
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Director, SF ReServe

Community Living Campaign
04.2019 - Current
  • Set strategic direction and lead team to expand SF ReServe, which helps skilled older workers and adults living with disabilities to find meaningful part-time employment
  • Developed a strong team culture of collaboration and continuous improvement
  • Manage $970K/per annum city grant
  • Lead collaborative of organizations advocating for employment for older adults, adults living with disabilities and LGBTQ community and other marginalized communities
  • Forge new relationships with community-based organizations and small businesses to expand access to part-time employment
  • DEIB Steering Committee Lead
  • Supervise Inclusion & Accessibility Lead

Principal

Jamie Goddard & Associates
10.1994 - 08.2023
  • Coached emerging corporate managers and executive leadership to elevate their authenticity and clarity in new and existing roles
  • Consulted on small business leadership, strategy and implementation to build fulfilling and productive work cultures
  • Strategic team, board, cross-organizational work outs and operational planning
  • Led Large Account Management™ and Strategic Selling™ sessions for $10MM growth
  • Led and oversaw Associate and Analyst summer trainings of 150+ employees across financial institutions
  • Lead 12 consultants to train and coach a new organization-wide performance evaluation

People Development Lead

FairTrade USA
05.2016 - 12.2016
  • Created a strategic roadmap for performance management across the organization of 125 employees
  • Coached new people managers in team development, annual KPI/performance evaluations and promotion/succession planning
  • Launched Senior Manager Peer Groups.
  • Internal management coach
  • Designed and facilitated organization-wide training
  • Conflict resolution
  • Led on-boarding program and Employee Engagement Survey

Manager, Business Services and New Initiatives

Women's Business Development Council
05.2013 - 02.2016
  • Implemented expansion into new and existing markets and managed staff to extend WBDC's demographic and geographical delivery of services to 200+ new small business owners
  • Counseled small business owners in all phases of small business growth
  • Introduced services supporting Latina entrepreneurs
  • Grant project and funder relationship management
  • Led Aspen Institute certification process

Manager, Organization Development/New Initiatives

Women's Business Development Council
05.2013 - 11.2014
  • Launched this new position and developed and managed strategies and programs to build organizational capacity
  • Elevated on-boarding and talent engagement through an organization and staff self-evaluation survey, staff retreats and implementation of DiSC™
  • Internal coach to senior leadership and staff
  • Led development of 5-year strategic and operating plans with senior management and Board of Directors
  • Facilitated redefinition and strategy of Board Development Committee.
  • Feasibility study analyzing potential new markets, including the first statewide analysis of Latina entrepreneurs in Connecticut, leading to expansion of services

Senior Grant Program Manager

The WorkPlace, Inc.
01.2011 - 11.2012
  • Launched and managed a $585K annual consortium-based pilot funded by the Office of Disability Employment Policy, to help small businesses build capacity to hire LGBTQ+ People with Disabilities


Education

B.A., European History -

Wheaton College, Massachusetts
Norton, MA
05.1979

Some College (No Degree) -

Université Grenoble Alpes
Grenoble, France

Skills

  • Strategic, practical, action-oriented
  • Change management
  • Organization development
  • Leadership and management
  • Employee lifecycle
  • Project management

Certification

  • Currently pursuing certification in certification for Building Bridges UC Berkeley/Greater Good Science Center
  • Managing to Change the World, The Management Center
  • Coach certification through Coaching Institute
  • Forte Institute, Interpersonal Communications Systems Assessment
  • Harvard Negotiation Project, Strategic Relationship Negotiation
  • Ken Blanchard, Situational Self-Leadership
  • Learning International training programs
  • Wilson Learning Managing Interpersonal Relationships

Affiliations

  • Society for Community Work Scholarship Mentor Program advisor
  • Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center Small Business Advisor
  • Board Chair: Transfaith, an interfaith Transgender nonprofit
  • Board Chair: CT Women's Business Development Council
  • Founding Board Member Women's Mentoring Network
  • Chair of Annual Appeal and Strategic Planning Committee Scholars for Dollars, Stamford, CT

Languages

French
Limited Working
Dutch
Elementary
German
Elementary

Timeline

Director, SF ReServe

Community Living Campaign
04.2019 - Current

People Development Lead

FairTrade USA
05.2016 - 12.2016

Manager, Organization Development/New Initiatives

Women's Business Development Council
05.2013 - 11.2014

Manager, Business Services and New Initiatives

Women's Business Development Council
05.2013 - 02.2016

Senior Grant Program Manager

The WorkPlace, Inc.
01.2011 - 11.2012

Principal

Jamie Goddard & Associates
10.1994 - 08.2023

B.A., European History -

Wheaton College, Massachusetts

Some College (No Degree) -

Université Grenoble Alpes
Jamie F Goddard