Ken Sarber

Experience

• 

  Fort Dodge Animal Health

  Jan 2003 - Jan 2007

  Wellness Coordinator

  • Managed staff wellness programs by performing physical health assessments & creating workout & nutrition plans for (200+) Fort Dodge Animal Health associates. • Fort Dodge was later acquired by Merck

• 

  University of Kansas

  Aug 2007 - Feb 2013

  Health Educator

  • Taught public health classes to help mentor (1000+) college students as they adjust to the college atmosphere.• Worked full-time while going to school full-time earning my master’s degree in higher education.• Led & mentored a student organization called Peer Health Educators, which is a student group that would perform health talks on & off campus. (0 members at time of start, after 1st semester we had 150 active members, supported by 1 grant paid position, & 2 others in support.)• Designed a program to guide students & staff in developing healthier lifestyle choices around nutrition.• Created & facilitated a smoking cessation program to help staff & students leave tobacco products behind. Show less

• 

  Stormont Vail Health

  Feb 2013 - Apr 2016

  Non-Clinical Manager of Education and Organizational Development

  • Taught leadership collaborative courses to cultivate stronger leaders throughout the organization. (80 Leaders used Cohorts for leadership training in building trust, coaching, & enhanced interpersonal communication.)• Designed a structured program integrating adult learning principles to all online & in-person programs.• Developed mentoring program to increase employee advancement opportunities. (50 team members participated, 75% of those individuals became leaders after completing the program.)• Taught Microsoft office classes to improve efficiency across the organization.• Managed Clinical & Non-Clinical Education – Goals: Design an active orientation training program so that staff were more effective in their first 30 days. Implemented staff support training programs so that staff had what they needed to stay instead of leaving due to fear & uncertainty. Target met was 1st year turnover was improved by 50%. Show less

• 

  Lawrence Memorial Hospital

  May 2016 - now

  Director of Education & Learning Services

  • Director over all organization education programs for over 2,300 plus associates includingemployed & contracted physicians & front-line associates.• Architect & execute integrated professional development programs & processes to drive professionalgrowth & accountability across the organization.• Designs, builds, & ensures delivery of focused training & development content & curriculum foremerging leaders, associates & Executives.• Designed & implemented “Grow your own leadership” development programs for Supervisors,Managers, Directors, & Senior leaders. (MS OFFICE SUITE classes: TEAMS, Publisher, PPT,OneNote, & Word.)• Partner with external vendors where appropriate & manage budget & vendor agreements. (LMS, Tech,Software/analytics)• Led the movement to a new hospital wide learning management system (LMS) which allows our ELearning to be more interactive.• Restructured the house wide certification to platform that was available to staff 24 hours a day 7 days aweek which led to increased staff satisfaction.• Negotiated upgraded staff education platforms while saving the organization money while creating clean& effective structure. (Savings = $85K per year, $425K total while increasing resources for staff.)• Transformed employee orientation into a hybrid model so that the in-person portions were more hands on which created more highly engaged associates.• Designed new structure to our student internship & shadowing programs & opportunities so that theexperiences led to a successful recruitment opportunity.• Directly supervise/lead various levels of team members by setting the tone for the team environment &providing individualized coaching, training, & mentoring. (Direct reports: Nurses, secretaries,physicians, respiratory therapists, training specialists.) Show less