Suzanne Quentin
Fairfax,CA
Summary
Dynamic and collaborator business partner with exceptional business acumen and a proven track record for enabling team alignment, talent development and employee engagement across global teams. I'm sincere, strategic, intuitive and adaptive - and a champion for positive corporate culture.
Overview
34
34
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Independent Consultant and Facilitator
Sky Consulting
San Francisco, CA
05.2003 - Current
- Custom change leadership, training, and team performance consulting services, designed and delivered personally or in partnership with industry colleagues.
- Served as a senior consultant with Cisco Systems from 2004 to 2014, engaging across multiple business functions to provide talent management and team performance programs, including a global career development program that ran consecutively for 10 years.
- Additional clients include NVIDIA, Navis, Veritas, The Rupert Group, and Hospital Corporation of America.
Director, Talent Development
Gong.io
San Francisco, CA
06.2024 - 02.2025
- Enhanced and implemented annual performance management protocols to include development goal-setting and alignment with annual compensation planning.
- Designed and launched an online career hub, including career pathing and career development learning.
- Designed a talent review and succession planning toolkit for the HRBP team.
- Crafted and deployed the VP-360 process, including vendor engagement.
- Designed and delivered a 3-hour keynote on change leadership for a global revenue leaders Summit.
- Facilitated workshops on team performance, leadership, and management skills.
Director, People Success Business Partner
Kaleris
Oakland, CA
09.2019 - 06.2024
- Global strategic HRBP directly supporting executive leaders and their teams across 23 countries: Chief Product Officer, Chief Commercial Officer, Chief Operations Officer and the VP/GM Americas.
- Owned a breadth of organizational and talent strategies including org redesign, org optimization & staff exits, acquisition integration, new leader assimilation, change management, HR policy and process design, annual performance cycles, talent assessment and succession planning, career pathing, compensation analysis, employee relations, and global employee engagement
- Championed and led initiatives that directly enhanced the employee experience including an early-in-career global learning cohort, customer exchange program, DEI program, internal mobility, strengths-based career development, and our global Sustainability messaging.
Senior Consultant
Leading Initiatives Worldwide
San Francisco, CA
06.2015 - 09.2019
- Program leader and senior facilitator for leadership development programs focused on strategic planning and team performance
- Co-leader in building the U.S.-based practice, increasing revenues by $2M in three years.
- Clients included Cisco Systems, Silicon Valley Bank, Moose Toys, Logitech, Sanofi, and Schneider Electric.
Senior Facilitator
PowerSpeaking
San Francisco, CA
04.2007 - 08.2019
- Facilitated presentation skills for programs targeting a variety of audience profiles: PowerSpeaking, Speaking Up, Sales Speaking, Virtual Speaking, Conference Speaking
- Clients included SalesForce, LinkedIn, Cisco Systems, NetApp, Autodesk, Roche-Genentech, and Abbott Labs.
Manager, People Practice
Deloitte Consulting
San Francisco, CA
04.1999 - 12.2001
- Business Development for the west region People Competency practice, for post-Y2K ERP "2nd Wave" change and learning consultancy services.
- Senior consultant and people manager for the documentation, training, and change management elements of Bechtel Engineering's global SAP implementation.
- Clients included Bechtel Engineering, Philips Semiconductor, and McKesson Pharmaceuticals.
Senior Consultant, Business Development Manager
DACG
Houston, TX
04.1991 - 02.1999
- End user consulting services for large-scale (F1000) ERP system implementations
- Served in consulting, management and business development capacities
- Developed exclusive partnership with SAP Public Sector as their primary end user training partner
- Developed and led the US West regional sales team with $10M sales annually
Education
Corporate Sustainability and Innovation -
Harvard University
12.2021
MA - Counseling Psychology
California Institute of Integral Studies
05.2003
BS - Business Administration
University of Colorado
05.1990
Skills
- Employee Lifecycle Processes
- Employee Engagement
- Organizational Design
- Leader & Team Coaching
- Career Development
- Change Management
Certification
- Psychometric Profiling Tools including: Insights, DISC, MBTI, Five Behaviors of Cohesive Teams, Kilmann TKI Conflict, TMBC Standout
- Gallup StrengthsFinder facilitation since 2007
- Certified Coach, 2009
Timeline
Director, Talent Development
Gong.io
06.2024 - 02.2025
Director, People Success Business Partner
Kaleris
09.2019 - 06.2024
Senior Consultant
Leading Initiatives Worldwide
06.2015 - 09.2019
Senior Facilitator
PowerSpeaking
04.2007 - 08.2019
Independent Consultant and Facilitator
Sky Consulting
05.2003 - Current
Manager, People Practice
Deloitte Consulting
04.1999 - 12.2001
Senior Consultant, Business Development Manager
DACG
04.1991 - 02.1999
Corporate Sustainability and Innovation -
Harvard University
MA - Counseling Psychology
California Institute of Integral Studies
BS - Business Administration
University of Colorado
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