Karen Lausier

Experience

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  GE

  Oct 2001 - Dec 2007

  Director, Leadership Development Program Manager/Training Manager

  Led a high-profile technical training and leadership program for GE Consumer & Industrial's corporate headquarters. Led a three-person team that managed both the internship and leadership programs in nine countries, 17 sites and managed a $5MM budget. Annually, recruited, interviewed, hired and on-boarded 300 interns and between 80- 180 leadership program members, globally. Top-performing interns were then selected for our two-year leadership program, or recruited directly from our Top Tier 1 Universities• Led 80-180+ employees and managers through the performance assessment and career planning: Developed and implemented action plans to close skill gaps. Program participants were promoted twice as fast and filed three times the patents as people not in the program. • Working with managers, anticipated future skills needed in industry, created and drove strategy for global learning and development of early talent technologists.• Developed the strategy and implemented the tactical plan for the expansion of the internship pipeline program, the leadership program feeder program, which tripled over two years. Show less

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  GE HealthCare

  Jan 2008 - Oct 2010

  Director, Leadership Development Program Manager/Training Manager

  Led a high-profile technical training and leadership development program at GE Healthcare’s corporate headquarters. Recruited and hired students from Tier I Universities to participate in our three-month or six-month internships. Top-performing interns were then selected for an extensive, two-year leadership training program. Conducted manpower planning, performance assessment and compensation plan while trainees were on and off program. Doubled size of program membership while increasing geographical footprint. • Developed training plans and ran internal instructor-led-courses on business acumen, presentation skills, change management, team building, personal branding, crucial conversations and various technical topics. Achieved a significant cost savings by making these changes.• Designed and implemented an instructional design certification program. • Initiated a hands-on tear down school of a competitor's CT scanners that resulted in significant product cost out opportunities. • Hands-on experience with educating adult learners: Developed education strategy and managed team of subject matter experts who delivered digital content for e-University; Surveyed students and managers to determine effectiveness of content. Show less

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  GE

  Oct 2010 - May 2013

  Global Recruiting Manager

  Designed a university program recruiting strategy, to create a pipeline of high quality interns, and leadership program candidates globally. Coordinated college recruiting for more than 200 Colleges and Universities across the US. Trained more than 500 GE middle management and HR staff per year to use Behavioral Interviewing Techniques as well as, on the use of our Applicant Tracking System. • Developed courses and deployed LMS-based training content, with feedback loop. • Applied the Change Acceleration Process to simplify the campus recruiting process for hiring 3000 interns and 1000 leadership program direct hires annually. The impact was higher acceptance rates and more higher satisfaction from candidates.• Increased the number of hires significantly for multiple GE businesses and functions while either maintaining or increasing diversity within the engineering population. • Worked with program managers to assess competencies and wrote standardized job descriptions for internship and leadership program hires. Developed, tracked, and reported hiring and diversity metrics. Show less

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  GE Oil & Gas

  May 2013 - Mar 2017

  Director, Leadership Development Programs/Training Manager

  Managed and developed a team of seven organizational development specialists, including a developer, four designers, a scheduler, and an administrator, while using an integrated approach to oversee the sum-total learning management system (LMS) learning content. Mapped competencies, identified skill gaps, created curriculum, managed and delivered on-line and instructor-led learning content for 7,400 entry-level, mid-career, and experienced engineers in the technology organization.• Implemented a digital (LMS) based evaluation system to measure training effectiveness, learning, and to provide recommendations for course/curriculum improvement:Improved course NPS scores and significantly impacted product time releases. • Partnered with engineering stakeholders and subject matter experts to conduct needs analyses to define instructional objectives, and business outcomes for new classes and content. • Designed and launched a new learning portal which consolidated 15 sites into one: Reduced IT costs, migrated to the cloud, and increased employee awareness on available training. Show less

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  Got 2learn?

  Apr 2017 - Jun 2021

  Director, Talent Development/Training and Leadership Development(Independent Consultant)

  Talent Development/Training and Leadership Development professional with advanced experience in assessing talent, content delivery,curriculum and course creation for technical and non-technical employees. Proficient career coach.

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  Air Liquide

  Jun 2018 - Jun 2024

  Director Technical Training

  Training leader with a vision for enhancing its technical training program to meet the current and future needs of the business. Engages with senior leaders and operations across Air Liquide to design and develop strategic training initiatives that accelerate and ensure operations excellence and individual development goals. Implementing augmented reality tools that engage learners and reduces learning time.