VANTAGE EXECUTIVE OUTPLACEMENT - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Online Brand Strategist and Career Coach
- Senior Career Coach and Online Brand Strategist
Anne Pryor is a Senior Career Coach and Online Brand Strategist. In her role, she specializes in creating and communicating personal brands, leveraging LinkedIn and online tools and networking strategies to be found, look good and make meaningful business connections. Anne consults one-on-one with clients to help them accelerate success through their career transitions and she specializes in LinkedIn; teaching workshops on the most up-to-date features of this powerful tool.
Anne understands branding. As a former Senior Director of Wellness and Innovation at Carlson Marketing, she designed solutions for Fortune 500 clients. Previously, she was the first employee to open Mall of America's Knott's Camp Snoopy and she directed sales and marketing for Valleyfair and Lifetouch Portrait Studios (JCPenney and Target studios).
In her free time, Anne teaches Nordic walking, is a soul watercolor artist, and is the creator of Lovitude® jewelry design. She has a patent pending on a worksite wellness pedometer.
Job Titles:
- Certified Executive Coach
Annette has been helping leaders develop and engage their teams for 35 years, as a C-Suite executive, global transformation leader, consultant, and human resource professional. She has experiences in manufacturing, engineering product development, international M&A, railways, and financial and legal services. She led organizational capability builds in the United States, Great Britain, China, Japan, Australia, Canada, and Mexico. Clients often comment that she can more easily connect to some of the workplace challenges they face, based on those experiences.
Job Titles:
- Vice President of Client Solutions for CPI Twin Cities
Claire Edmondson is the Vice President of Client Solutions for CPI Twin Cities, responsible for consulting with corporate clients on their workforce strategy and coaching on career and leadership solutions. She was most recently Principal Consultant for Key Leader Resources (KLR), where she led a team of consultants delivering career and leadership development programs. Claire served as the primary relationship manager for all client relationships, project managed program deliveries, and expanded the company's consulting and coaching offerings.
Prior to KLR, Claire was the Director of Strategic Accounts for Linkage, a global leadership consulting firm, where she focused on advancing women leaders and developing high potentials. Before that, she was Vice President, Business Development Consultant for Right Management. During her tenure as Director of Business Development for the Seabury Group, a global investment management and human capital consulting firm (sold to Accenture), she was part of (3) new company branding efforts, and responsible for leading new business efforts for the Practice Areas of Leadership, Selection, Executive Compensation, and Workforce Analytics.
For nearly 15 years, Claire has consulted in HR, Career Management, and Leadership Development, and worked with clients around the globe to deliver hundreds of assessments, coaching, and leadership training programs. She has built her reputation on delivering business insights combined with outstanding service. Claire's background lends her a broad range of corporate industry exposure to draw upon, along with her experience as an entrepreneur and executive leader.
Job Titles:
- Principal Talent Management Consultant With CPI Twin Cities
Debby Magnuson is Principal Talent Management Consultant with CPI Twin Cities where she is an executive and outplacement coach, leadership development facilitator, and talent management consultant. One of Debby's research and presentation specialties is managing across generations. Her book, Work With Me: A New Lens on Leading the Multigenerational Workforce, was published in 2008. Debby has been a regular keynote speaker and group facilitator to audiences large and small for many years.
Before joining CPI, she was Sr. Consultant in Leadership Development for Personnel Decisions International (PDI), where she worked with corporate leadership teams on a wide variety of development topics.
Debby holds a MA in Counseling Psychology from the University of St. Thomas. She is on the faculty of St. Catherine University's Master of Arts in Organizational Leadership program and is an instructor in St. Kate's Leaders of the New Millennium program for emerging women business leaders.
Job Titles:
- Principal Talent Management Consultant
Job Titles:
- Career Consultant
- Consultant With CPI Twin Cities
Jennifer Pollard is a Career Consultant with CPI Twin Cities where she is an executive and outplacement coach and talent management consultant. In her role, she specializes in communicating a consistent online persona and has considerable research and presentation specialties in growth mindset and transitioning from corporate to entrepreneurial ventures. Before joining CPI, Jenn worked primarily as a human resource representative and communications specialist.
Job Titles:
- Coach
- Executive
- Executive Coach With the International Coach Federation
Jill Hauwiller has been developing leaders for nearly 20 years. She has coached hundreds of professionals around the globe in the areas of leadership effectiveness, emotional intelligence, career transition, team-building, and work-life integration. Jill is an energetic, optimistic, strengths-based coach and has a broad toolkit to leverage in helping her clients increase self-awareness, identify obstacles, work through challenges, communicate their value, and ultimately build confidence in making decisions and taking action.
Jill is a credentialed executive coach with the International Coach Federation (ICF), and has numerous assessment certifications in leadership, strengths, values, 360 feedback, and learning agility, as well as action learning design and facilitation. Over the years, she has been certified to facilitate numerous assessments and programs, including Hogan/360, EQ-i 2.0/360, Profilor, DDI, Lominger/Korn Ferry, Franklin Covey, and Linkage. Jill earned Bachelors' degrees in Communication and German from the University of Minnesota-Duluth, and earned a Master's degree in Communication from Bethel University with an emphasis in Conflict Resolution and Emotional Intelligence
Job Titles:
- Operations Manager
- Operations Manager at CPI Twin Cities
Kelli is the Operations Manager at CPI Twin Cities. In this role, she is responsible for managing and improving systems to ensure efficiency. She is the main point of contact for accounting and vendor relationships, while ensuring that the day-to-day operations run smoothly to meet client needs.
Lorrie Saito is a Career Consultant with CPI Twin Cities where she is an outplacement coach. She is also Owner & Principal Consultant at L.A. Saito & Associates where she uses her skills as a change strategist and learning expert to serve businesses focused on improving company culture from the human side.
Lorrie has extensive experience providing coaching and feedback sessions for training facilitators, supervisors and managers and has also conducted 360-degree assessment feedback sessions for individuals and intact workgroups. With over 10+ years of involved innovative design, development, and delivery of training and development initiatives in corporate and professional service organizations, Lorrie adds value to CPI by collaborating with individuals to provide meaningful coaching and training sessions.
Maureen holds a Master's in Industrial Relations from Loyola University in Chicago and a Bachelor of Science degree in Business from Marquette University. She has extensive experience coaching and onboarding leaders, and received her executive coaching certificate from the University of St. Thomas.
Job Titles:
- Coach
- Executive
- Board Chair of the Nature Conservancy
Mike Meyer's unique background includes extensive executive experience in the C-Suite of a Fortune 250 company and as a general manager of a rapidly growing medical business in Latin America & Canada. He also serves as a Director on both for-profit and nonprofit boards. Mike is a certified and highly experienced Executive Coach. In his coaching engagements, he leverages his experience as both a line executive and HR leader who worked with the board to develop and select executives for key leadership roles. He knows what it takes to be successful.
Mike uses a warm, direct approach to help senior leaders see what they otherwise may not - their towering strengths as well as the areas that may be holding them back. But this is just the first part of the coaching process. As that famous executive coach, Bruce Lee, said, "Knowing is not enough…We must apply." Through small experiments, both in the coaching session and in the real world, Mike helps leaders add to their repertoire of behaviors, making them more agile. Mike believes that increasing leadership agility is key for exceptional executives in times of change.
Mike works primarily with clients who are VP and above with large and medium-sized employers. He has coached executives in the pharmaceutical, medical device, industrial, chemical, banking, insurance, health care, retail, and consumer package goods sectors. He has worked with clients in the U.S., Europe, Asia, and Latin America. He was previously EVP of HR at Ecolab, and prior to that had an international career of 25 years with Abbott Laboratories. Mike has lived and worked in most regions of the world. He has extensive experience directing complex global M&A integrations and leading organizations through significant change.
Mike is currently Board Chair of the Nature Conservancy, and also serves on the boards of Global Minnesota and Orange Tree Employment Services.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Coach
- Executive
- Principal
Patricia Berg is the former CEO and owner of Career Partners International, Twin Cities and equity partner in Career Partners International. She purchased the business from Personnel Decisions International in 2006 where she was the General Manager of the Career Management Services practice. Having been a leader in other career firms, Patricia developed a business model for CPI Twin Cities that offers highly customized Executive Services, including Executive Coaching and OnBoarding, Executive Succession and Alignment, and Executive Transition Services.
Patricia found herself in a leadership role early in her career with Peavey Company. Having the distinction of being the first woman manager in the company, she became a role model and mentor to other women. That opportunity fueled her interest in leadership and career management. In addition to Personnel Decisions International, Patricia was the Vice President of Career Transition at Career Dynamics and the Vice President of Career Transition and Field Consulting at Right Management Consultants.
Patricia's zest for meaningful work was spawned by her Mother who retired at 92. Patricia has two grown daughters who are leaders in their professions and communities, two grandsons who keep her busy, a lake home where people gather, and to the surprise of some, enjoys trips on the Harley. She is the past Board Chair of SHiFT, a non-profit which provides resources for those in mid-life transitions and she is passionate about providing the best-in-class services to CPI's clients.
Peg has experience within small and large healthcare organizations and system-wide support organizations, as well as global coaching experience within the technology, professional services, and agribusiness industries. Throughout her career, she has contributed in a variety of areas, including executive human resources leadership (CHRO), organization redesign, succession management, leadership assessment and development, employee transition and onboarding, and change management. Peg strongly believes in a collaborative, systemic approach to individual and organizational change, and she partners with others to deliver sustainable outcomes.
Job Titles:
- Consultant and Executive Coach With CPI Twin Cities
Risë Kasmirski is a consultant and executive coach with CPI Twin Cities. She has more than 20 years of experience in employee and organization development and provides coaching and training on topics including Leadership Development, The New World of Work, Career Strategy, Job Transition, Personal Branding, LinkedIn Profile Development, Organizational Effectiveness, Change Management, Communication, and Onboarding.
Job Titles:
- Senior Vice President of Executive and Transition Services
Tamara is a Licensed Psychologist in the state of Minnesota. She earned a Master of Science degree in Psychology from St. Louis University and has completed considerable postgraduate education in Organizational Psychology. She obtained her coaching certificate through New Ventures West.