Pam Hargis
Experience Working As A Leader In Organizations:
- Former senior executive with more than 30 years’ experience in corporate strategic planning, process development leading high-profile, high-risk international projects, and managing large teams with direct and indirect accountability.
- Managed multiple sales functions and developed tools and programs to achieve quarterly sales and service targets.
- Led a team of technology and business leaders to build and deploy a $500MM sales and service platform – the largest technology change in the organization’s history.
- Mentored leaders across multiple lines of business to develop leadership capabilities and skills and improve productivity which positively impacted personal relationships at home; spoke in national forums.
- Delivered two critical, multi-million-dollar claims and fraud systems with improvement in customer satisfaction by 6 basis points and associate satisfaction by ~20 basis points. Errors reduced by 50% and losses by $1MM a quarter.
- Proactively expanded initiative improvements across the franchise to ensure connectivity and generate larger reductions in downstream impacts to call volumes and handle time.
- Identified and implemented changes to procedure communications reducing duplication of effort resulting in 300+ hours per year saved. Analyzed inadequate processes resulting in higher employee satisfaction and reducing additional risk.
Coaching And Facilitation Background:
- Corporate Trainer, Facilitator and Event Speaker for a Fortune 500 company.
- Partners with clients to enhance theirs and their employees’ effectiveness, profitability and quality of life.
- Extremely passionate to help others balance personal life while generating strong, positive results at work.
- Coaches professionals and business owners to define productive and valuable use of their time, develop the most efficient and cost-effective operations, and increase profitability through personalized action plans.
- Provides career advancement, client experience, time management, employee engagement, performance coaching, and sales/service curricula with proven results.
- Facilitation includes multi-year strategic planning, exit planning, team engagement activities, and brainstorming sessions.
Relevant Business Experience:
- Developed teams/teammates to meet /exceed their full potential, achieving high associate engagement satisfaction results of 93% or greater each year – highest scores within the business unit.
- Creative and engaging delivery ranges from one-on-one to large conferences with hundreds of participants. A highly energetic and down-to-earth speaker. Thought-provoking and attention-grabbing format leave participants energized and ready to execute.
- Current clients, with proven results, include municipalities, small and large corporations, non-profit organizations, Chambers, Associations and other networking groups
Education and Training:
- Licensed and practiced Navigational Conversations Facilitator.
- Certified FocalPoint International Coach, Trainer and Public Speaker.
- Change Performance Center Training & Certification.
- Six Sigma, Design for Six Sigma and Agile Certifications.