Metropolitan State University - Management Information Systems
Education/Leadership Coaching/Organizational Effectiveness/Strategy/Change Management
Government Administration
Lynne
Penke Valdes
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Passionate, collaborative, and strategic change management professional with 20 years of experience in organizational effectiveness. Proven success in advancing strategic change initiatives, change management, team building, communications, leadership development, and employee engagement. Expertise in designing, implementing, and driving organizational change to move the organization forward. A unique blend of business and IT skills and abilities, relationship acumen, and enthusiasm to each project or initiative.
Community Faculty
Organizational Behavior 320
Management Information Systems 100
Principal IT Business Analyst
Lynne worked at Hennepin County as a Principal IT Business Analyst
Organizational Change Manager
Change management practitioner driving change initiatives relating to culture, employee engagement, organizational development, and strategic alignment with vision. Ensure change management is applied to key initiatives and projects, including the reorganization/centralization of the IT department. Identify resistance and performance gaps, coach and advise senior leaders to work to develop and implement corrective actions. Identify critical change management dependencies across projects and initiatives. Integrate with other strategic functions. Develop and implement strengths-based employee development model. Develop and implement an employee engagement framework with strategies to increase engagement across the organization. Create and execute senior leadership development retreats.
Communications and Culture Manager
Create, lead, and facilitate large scale department and organization-wide transformational programs and projects relating to organizational development to support organizational change. Collaborate with peer managers and department directors to develop shared goals in alignment with the PW Strategic Plan and Hennepin County business goals; develop within PW critical communication tools to advance PW updates, critical messaging and project/program updates. Provide process improvement and change management best practices to advance outreach and engagement to stakeholders internally and externally for strategic initiatives and projects. Provide strategic consulting and coordination for cross-departmental efforts relating to E-Government, Communication, Project Management and Facilitation.
Youth Education Department Manager
Lynne worked at Hennepin County as a Youth Education Department Manager
MMIS Certificate
Masters Management Information Systems
Management of Information Systems (Master)
Community Faculty
Organizational Behavior 320
Management Information Systems 100
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