More About Me

I bring a unique blend* of high-level strategic thinking and data-driven, tactical know-how, drawing on significant on-the-ground experience and results, to help your organizational formalize its talent systems.

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* like the combination of an apricot and a plum ... an aprium!

A subset of the client projects I've led:

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• Salary benchmarking

• Comprehensive compensation philosophy design

• Performance review system design

• Competency maps

• Career frameworks and job leveling

• Promotion criteria

• Manager training

• Employee Handbook creation (including all associated policies)

• Employee listening, engagement and retention

• Audit of HR & Talent systems

• Leadership team coaching & facilitation

• Onboarding design

• Job description and hiring process design

• Collective bargaining support

• HRIS implementation support

• 50 clients span the nonprofit sector (education, health & human services, employment & workforce development, Jewish communal, nonprofit consulting) and range in size from 5 to 1,000+ employees

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A subset of the roles I've held and initiatives I've led within nonprofits:

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• Member of Senior Leadership Team of 200-person organization

• Led management’s negotiations of first & subsequent Collective Bargaining Agreements; point of contact for union

• Designed and conducted biannual staff satisfaction survey

• Founded Teacher Residency program

• Implemented new HR Information System including Payroll

• Conducted compensation redesigns for unionized and non-unionized staff

• Project managed high-stakes, complex, organization-wide initiatives with many stakeholders (e.g., COVID-19 response, new school openings)

• Co-led organization-wide DEI priority

• Designed performance review systems

• Increased nonprofit fundraising revenue 50% over 3 years and led annual gala

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Career and education specifics, prior to founding Aprium Advisors in 2021:

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• 5 years at Envision Education as Chief People Officer leading Talent & HR, Development & Communications, and Enrollment & Growth

• 3 years at Summit Public Schools leading Growth & Facilities, Educational Partnerships, and Adult Learning

• 3 years at the Bridgespan Group doing nonprofit strategy consulting

• MBA and MA in Education from Stanford University

• BA in Astrophysics from Harvard University

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I am also a proud wife and mother of two sweet kids.

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