Nancy Petaja

Vice President
NPetaja@LEDOnline.com
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Nancy has 20 years experience consulting to major corporations from both inside and outside in the areas of organization and staff development, assisting clients in building effective, well-run businesses, and coaching. She works closely with clients to strategically align her efforts with the goals, objectives and culture of the organization. Her areas of expertise include organizational development, learning design and development, facilitation, team building, coaching, and competency model development.

Before joining LED, Nancy was Director of Learning and Development at JP Morgan Chase for the Investor Services business. Building the function from the ground up, Nancy eventually managed a department of 85 performance consultants in 9 regional service centers around the globe serving a population of 7,000 employees. She handled projects as diverse as designing and implementing the change management strategy for two mergers and a major relocation of staff; developing innovative entry training programs and protocols which lowered turnover of entering staff from over 60% to 14%; and building business-specific curricula that had the flexibility and rapid-development capability to provide just-in-time training as new products and systems were developed.

In her prior roles, Nancy started and managed her own consulting practice with a focus on Change Management and methodologies for helping corporations mold the cultures of their institutions. She was also Manager of Employee Relations/Human Resources for Yankelovich, Skelly and White, a market and social research firm. As the originator of that position Nancy build the full complement of HR services including a performance management system, training and development standards, competency models to improve the quality of hiring decisions, organization development and teambuilding activities.

Nancy holds a Masters Degree in Social Work from Columbia University. Prior to her work in the corporate world, she served in the Peace Corps and the American Friends Service Committee. She is active in her community and has traveled and lived extensively abroad. She has published several articles, the most recent of which is, "Keeping Pace in a Rapidly Changing Environment."

She has received many awards for her work including, Excellence in Management and Diversity Champion and has spoken at conferences and professional meetings.

 
     
 

 

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