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🌟 Partnering with Amazon to Drive DEI Success 🌟 At #AdeccoAustralia, we’re proud to collaborate with #Amazon on impactful Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (#DEI) initiatives. This partnership isn’t just about placements—it’s about creating meaningful opportunities and long-term success for everyone involved. Through this collaboration, we’ve built a system that delivers incredible results: ✅ Strong, long-term partnerships with DES providers across Australia, expanding the network to meet diverse talent needs. ✅ A streamlined referral process that ensures inclusivity, even accommodating specific requests to support candidates. ✅ The flexibility to customize referral requirements, meeting our clients unique needs while supporting candidates’ success. ✅ Trusted expertise in meeting the demands of warehousing roles, thanks to relationships with specialized providers. ✅ Access to a diverse pool of DEI candidates, ready to contribute to Amazon’s vision. ✅ Ongoing onsite support for placements, ensuring both clients and candidates are set up for success. ✅ Hundreds of successful placements across Australia, with a proven track record of delivering excellence. This robust system ensures that Amazon’s DEI goals translate into measurable impact—#empoweringindividuals, #strengtheningteams, and setting a standard for inclusive growth. Together, we’re redefining what’s possible for DEI in Australia. 🌏 Let’s connect to explore how we can create more opportunities through partnerships like this! #DiversityAndInclusion #AmazonPartnership #TalentSolutions #AustraliaJobs #SuccessStories

📣 Procurement... Exciting? Yes! It is! Procurement is now a top lever for organizational growth, marking the dawn of "The Great Procurement Renaissance." Discover at Amazon Business Reshape 2024 - in Dallas, Sept 24-25 - how adopting new technologies and strategies can transform procurement into a smarter, greener, and more collaborative process. Learn how procurement transformation can make the difference between thriving or just surviving. This event is your gateway to the latest innovations in procurement and supply chain management, offering insights, success stories, and tools for advancement. #ABReshape2024 #SmartBusinessBuying

I am sad to share that my role at BigCommerce was eliminated as part of a company restructure that resulted in a workforce reduction. I have had the most amazing 3 years leading DEI at this incredible company. The people are amazing and the #BigCommerce culture was truly unparallel to anything I have ever experienced. I was given the honor of creating and implementing a global DEI strategy for this publicly traded tech company, and I leave so proud of the work we accomplished during this time. As a formal DEI role will no longer exist there, I wish the absolute best to all of my colleagues who will have DEI responsibilities more formally embedded into their roles. I am also eternally grateful to the ERG leaders, countless volunteers, and company leaders who have done so much in the name of DEI, simply because they are passionate and amazing people. Thank you to my entire BC family--I hope we have more opportunities to work together and am eager to see how you will build upon the amazing foundation we created together. I have had the amazing privilege of doing DEI work for over two decades, and as I enter this next phase of my career journey, I am uncertain where the field of DEI is heading. Will companies lean in rather than pull back? Will there be more opportunities for me to continue doing this incredible and essential work? I certainly hope so. DEI work doesn't just happen on its own--it requires intentionality, strategy, resources, and ideally some expertise as well. I pray that the incredible value of DEI---and the value of DEI practitioners---is continued to be understood in the workplace and beyond. #DEI #DiversityEquityInclusion #OpenToWork #HR

I used to skip this one thing that could have fast-tracked my career (and I’m not referring to leg day). It’s having a high adoption rate to change. When I was at Dell, we had a new product that other reps dreaded. It was a good product, but it’s typically a b**** to learn the ins and outs of a new on-premise infrastructure. Naturally, most reps “avoided the new”. I figured I had nothing to lose, so decided to step in and say, “what’s the worst that can happen”? It wasn’t fun but I learned a lesson you can have.. Whenever there is a new product release, these are decisions that have been thought about for years. And so the best thing you can do is be an early adopter . While everyone is waiting on the sidelines, give yourself an awesome chance to light up the KPI board with opps. This is a pivotal time when a lot of leadership will be viewing the KPI board. So make a name for yourself. Stick out like a sore thumb. Whether the product hits or not, I guarantee leadership will remember your name when promotions come up. P.S. Here’s a pic from my most recent trip to Canada. Highly recommend visiting BANF and Yoho if you get a chance. 

When the wider team you belong to are as strong and talented as this one, time zones, location and size of the mission pose very few problems. ABM Learning and Talent Development team. Amazon site visit. Houston. May 2024. Keeping it real. ABM Industries ABM UK ABM Ireland #makeadifference #keepingitreal #learninganddevelopment #leadershipdevelopment #managementdevelopment #customerfocus #collaboration #teamwork

Layoffs are never easy, especially when they affect customers as well as employees. laying off employees, and reducing work hours of employees who shop at Walgreens decreases Walgreens buttom line. It's time to reevaluate our priorities and get back to the basics. We need to focus on being a community-focused pharmacy and investing in our employees. Let's say goodbye to "change for the sake of change" initiatives and instead focus on what made us successful in the first place. We need to sell Boots alliance, Carecentrix, VillageMD and other failed ventures. As someone who has been following this industry closely and predicted and wrote about these outcomes in 2016, I am excited to work on my dissertation on the fall of pharmacy retail and the steps we can take to bring it back to its former self. Let's work together to create a sustainable model that can withstand economic downturns and be depression-proof as it was before our time.

Exciting update! With a few years of working at Amazon in a leadership role behind my back – I thought I had seen all that there is to see in leading & executing successful programs.     However, my assumptions were laid bare after exposure to projects related to #channelsales and #partnermarketing. The planning and hustle needed to pull them off invigorated my interest in the space. It also forced me to reevaluate what I thought was right and pushed me to ask these questions to those who have been at it longer - so many unsaid/unwritten rules for success!    All of this culminated in the creation of an exciting passion project alongside my good friend Vandan Jain and visionary industry experts Tina Gravel, John Addeo, 📈Juhi Saha - Your Partnerships Copilot, Philippa Clifford-Davies, Subhash Chandra, Chetali Agarwal and Steve Winfield, among others.     This collaboration encapsulates years of expertise and insights distilled into actionable strategies for businesses navigating channel sales, and I am excited to share this with you all soon!     Stay tuned for some exciting stuff!     #ChannelSales #PartnerCollaboration #Expertise #Innovation #Collaboration 

🥂”Congratulations, you have been nominated for your business and DEI contribution to: ''The change maker award''🥂Transportation, Shipping, & Logistics at Amazon 2 days in Luxembourg with many inspirational people! #Grateful 👁️Leadership role: The place where your main goal is to set up your team for success. The place where it is your responsibility to create a culture, where your team will be willing to tell you what’s wrong and when you make a crap decision. Place where you are vulnerable, because sometimes you simply don’t know. Place, that can sometimes feel so lonely but way more often incredible rewarding. With and incredible gratitude, to all of you who are part of my journey.💫 🍀….The swing of life....real....we are all on it. Some of us fake it till they make it, whatever that means. Some of us try to communicate, some of us are better at that than others. All you go through impacts people around you, it simply does, energy does not lie. People can feel you, before they can hear you. Be real and however raw it might be, always be YOU, before you are your job title, your position. Be willing to make a difference! There is a story behind each one of us. Behind our work alias, our responsibilites, our job title, there is a full world. All it takes is one person to start, one person to speak up, one person.… #BeTheChange 💫Me to me...I hope you find everything you are looking for, not only at the top of your mountains, but along the way too. And I hope you find everything you never knew, you were looking for too😉. You will change and then you will reinvent. You will never be done.Continue to set your own rules for how your life is supposed to feel and look. Be you. You will meet new versions of yourself all the time, if you are brave enough to invite them in. You will think you have all the answers and then you will be humbled by all you do not know yet. You will follow a path only to realize you need an entirely new North Star... Thank you to Women at Amazon for this incredible event! Amazon #LeadershipRole

Distributors: do you break bulk, reassort and ship out like Grainger and Costco? Why not also be #1 and #2 super, career-creators like them? How do they do it? 1.       They hire quality, promotable folks for where they want to grow to. a.       They pay the most to get the best to expect the most. b.      Entry level folks are eager to: cross-train at all first-level tasks; and willing to be part of perpetual innovations. 2.       Great leaders formulate smart, focused, disciplined, customer-centric-value strategies coupled with high-performance, supporting cultures. 3.       They then invent high-performance HR systems for - recruiting, screening, picking, engaging and educating- best caliber new hires. 4.       Then, the companies continue to grow organically (not by acquisition) and promote from within. 5.       You can’t promote from within if you don’t grow profitably, because you need great profits to: a.       Reinvest in growing working capital (inventory and A/R) b.      And, give investors a great ROI, so they do want to reinvest or buy your appreciating stock. Paying average wages to then micro-manage non-conscientious hires to deliver mediocre service metrics/value, can’t compete with what Grainger and Costco are doing. To transform from mediocrity to high-performance, go to merrifieldact2.com for the “Core Renewal Roadmap”.