I am the CEO at eNthusaProve. I am developing our facilitating and team building products repertoire, starting with the risk management exercise SlackMaster. I love teaching and facilitating, which I have the pleasure to do with many of our clients. Also, I am expanding the eNthusaProve offerings to include data analysis and optimization services.
My background includes work in expertise management (or knowledge management), program management, and teambuilding.
In my expertise management work, I co-developed and operated a new-employee development program focused on enterprise-wide expertise development through doing actual work rather than drills or made-up exercises. It is currently in its seventh year and has had over 200+ people involved so far. I transitioned leadership to a successor and the program continues to exist outside the typical constructs of the corporate culture. It is truly a success story similar to that discussed in Orbiting the Giant Hairball, by Gordon MacKenzie.
At my former company, I worked in a program focused on knowledge sharing. In that capacity I worked in the program office. I was part of a team of three developing the program from $5M per year operation to $100M+ in the span of two years. I established operations processes, management plans, and dashboard reports for knowledge sharing, financials, management of field offices, and security. It was a fun roller-coaster over which I learned the value of having a great team, both management and worker.
Teambuilding is usually a term that causes people to groan, at least the engineers I’ve worked with. I prefer to look at team building through the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator lens because I’ve found it to be a helpful self-management as well as a team dynamics tool. A distinction, what would you expect from an ENTJ. I’ve been fortunate to teach this topic to senior staff, government customers, individual working groups, and church groups.
My formal education is in the fields of mechanical and industrial engineering. I received my undergraduate degree from Kansas State University in mechanical engineering, where I found an interest in thermodynamics and power plants. Once I started working in that field, I found my interest in industrial engineering subjects like process improvement. So, I got an industrial engineering degree at the University of Pittsburgh while working full time where I enjoyed learning about decision modeling and optimization.
I am a cheerful person who loves to laugh. I’m proudly from Kansas and I love to cook, especially for my husband Nathan. Our lives have been truly blessed by God, to give us family who loves us from afar and friends that are like family close by. We are happy to serve that we may use the gifts that God has blessed us with for His glory.