An award-winning leader in the areas of culture and people strategy, Donna has guided her career to achieving a diverse business background by holding key, strategic, leadership roles in a variety of business functions and industries.  Possessing a passion for business, Donna builds strong trust and partnerships with leaders across a large variety of companies. Her broad business background enables her to see new opportunities, and to help leaders “connect the dots” on new areas of growth and development.  Donna’s openness and respect for everyone quickly engages people in all areas of the organization. Her recognition of, and by, people allows her to quickly build relationships and align employees for the future. Her passion for people has driven Donna to work extensively in assisting both for profit and non-profit organizations, as well as government agencies, to transform and align cultures needed for business performance. 

Donna has worked with many industry leading companies throughout her career, including Amtrak, Hess Refineries, NJ State Legislature and Police, The Vitamin Shoppe, and W. W. Grainger to name just a few. She has held senior level positions in the Human Resources, Operations, Sales, Marketing, Technology, Supply Chain, and Customer Experience functions. Her industry experience includes passenger railroad, transportation, retail, wholesale distribution, manufacturing, technology, government, education, and healthcare.  Throughout her career, Donna has created high performing teams and departments focused on cultural transformation and people strategy. Her work has created new opportunities for people and business growth through utilizing key performance improvement strategies.  Recognizing the potential of frontline employees in unionized and non-unionized companies, Donna initiated targeted programs for employees to develop new skills required of the future workforce, and potential leadership roles.  Donna has developed leaders by continuously building and improving leadership behaviors and performance through learning and coaching.  She has worked relentlessly with people to create unity for future business performance, and to assure talent was retained to lead future programs and opportunities. Additionally, Donna’s broad business experience has led to her successful leadership of key business initiatives focused on future product development, delivery and implementation, aligning departments and responsibilities for organizational effectiveness and operational efficiency, defining and delivering a customer focused experience, and creating an inclusive workforce with a sense of belonging.

Leveraging her business experience during economic downturns, Donna has worked with threatened businesses to regain control over their results. As a consultant, Donna helped businesses achieve much needed funding to avoid bankruptcy, develop plans for future success, analyze processes for improvement and efficiency, and train people in new skillsets. As a volunteer, Donna coached business leaders on business improvement opportunities.

Donna is a professional speaker in the areas of leadership, cultural transformation, and people development strategies.  Audiences find her talks authentic, relative, encouraging, and helpful to their personal, professional, and organization’s development. Donna continues to participate also participates on several advisory boards and associations focused on business and workforce needs for the present and future. 

Donna currently works independently with companies and leaders to build united cultures focused on achieving company strategy and results. An expert in her field, her broad business background and experience enable her to assess business performance with executive and senior leaders at the macro level. Through engagement with the workforce (micro level), Donna determines gaps, identifies improvement opportunities, and designs integrated plans for success.