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Operations Leader
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Permanent
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE:
11
EXPERTISE:
Operations and Management

FranceneExperienced Operational Leader with a passion for learning

Relevant Skills

Providing strategic learning and development direction, creating growth opportunities for her employees, executing company values and culture

Expertise Summary
  • Francene is an experienced Operational Leader with a passion for learning and development.
    • She excels in providing strategic learning and development direction for an organization to drive results, all while exemplifying and executing the company’s values and culture.
    • She is passionate about using L&D to create personal and professional growth opportunities for her employees– she feels most fulfilled when employees feel they are learning skills they can take outside of the job.
    • What she enjoys most about her L&D career is creating role-based career pathing, implementing high potential talent identification processes, partnering with operations to create consistency between markets, and creating leadership development courses.
  • As Director of Training for a cannabis brand, Francene created and facilitated a training the trainer development program attended by 45 hourly associates, leads, and managers with an internal NPS of 9.3 and a pass rate of 85%.
  • Francene implemented a high-potential identification process that resulted in filling 5 out of 6 leadership roles internally for the cannabis company.
    • She completed gap analysis and redesigned employee skill assessments with HR to align with new job roles, followed by re-certification of tasks by role.
    • Francene saw a 25% decrease in performance-based writeups in the first 60 days.
    • She also created a 180-hour training program for franchisees, focusing on business acumen, operations, cannabis knowledge, and service standards.
  • As the National Training Director for another premier cannabis company, Francene implemented a task timeline for opening a new store for cross-functional department tracking, reducing the number of NSO calls/meetings to once per week.
  • Francene was the VP of Retail for another cannabis company and created a Manager-in-Training program, helping the internal promotion rate go up to 85% for AGMs and GMs across all markets.
  • Francene built the L&D department from scratch, including a new restaurant opening program, internal and external leadership development, certified trainers, and training stores.

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