Karli Wenz
Reading,PA
Summary
Skilled Talent and Organizational Development Specialist focused on maximizing business success through effective use of organization, collaboration, and interpersonal skills. Effective communicator with excellent time management, administrative and customer service skills.
Overview
22
22
years of professional experience
Work History
Specialist
Penske Truck Leasing
Green Hills, Pennsylvania
11.2022 - Current
- Manage Training Progress Report
- Manage and moderate training courses for a positive overall experience
- Process enrollment of new associates into training
- Manage coursework assignments leading up to training and ensure materials, schedule, and all training details are distributed timely to participants
- Produce all training sessions for Maintenance Leadership Development team
- Experienced 418 hours of Maintenance Leadership training learning processes
- Offer technical support during training sessions
- Answer inquiries regarding courses, coursework, and technical issues
- Manage and distribute surveys for training analytics
- Manage all program communications and cadence for learning events
- Assist in creating training schedule for upcoming year
- Planning and coordinating in-person events
- Coordinating with vendors
- Facilitate dedicated Onboarding to Role sessions
- Work closely with training team to develop and design programs
Training Administrator
Penske Truck Leasing
11.2001 - 09.2021
- Manage and moderate training courses for a positive overall experience
- Process enrollment of new associates into training
- Manage coursework assignments leading up to training and ensure instructional materials, schedule, and all training details are distributed timely to participants
- Produce training sessions
- Offer technology support during training sessions
- Answer inquiries regarding courses, coursework, and technical issues
- Manage and distribute surveys for training analytics
- Manage all program communications, Event Calendar, and cadence for learning events
- Create training schedule for upcoming year
- Onboard and support Field Sales Manager leadership
- Planning and coordinating of team retreat
Economic Assistance
Department of Social Services
Sioux Falls, SD
06.2018 - 05.2021
- Assessed and analyzed current life circumstances and financial capabilities to provide assistance and services to low-income individuals and their families
- Interviewed and counseled individuals in order to identify available resources for themselves and their families
- Obtained records, verified collateral information, and determined eligibility for SNAP, Medicaid, and TANF
Licensing and Adoption Specialist
Child Protective Services
Vermillion, SD
02.2016 - 06.2018
- Assisted in the placement of children into foster homes
- Completed yearly foster parent license renewals, consistent recruitment, and retention of foster parents
- Worked as a support between the Department and foster families to ensure needs were being met.
- Maintained a full caseload
- Completed all required documents in a timely manner
- Finalized adoptions through the court system
- Communicated the needs of the children to appropriate providers
- Worked closely with stakeholders
- Interviewed families to assess safety of homes
Children's Advocate
River City Family Connections
Yankton, SD
09.2015 - 01.2016
- Monitored family visitations, documented visits clearly and concisely for record purposes, established and maintained effective and collaborative working relationships with both coworkers as well as clients, observed and correctly assessed situations during family visitations and exchanges, and reasoned logically and accurately with clients.
Center of Excellence Intern
ConAgra Foods
Omaha, NE
05.2015 - 07.2015
- Updated training material for the Accounts Payable department, created several presentations for training purposes, facilitated meetings with team managers, organized documents for various departments, and created communications to be sent out to clients
- This was a collaborative position, but also required a lot of independent decision-making.
Education
Bachelors of Science Degree - Communication Studies, Media and Journalism
University of South Dakota
Skills
- Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
- Expertise in LEARN, Zoom, Teams, OneDrive, and SmartSheet
- Comfortable learning and working in new learning systems
- Efficient at prioritizing role expectations
- Strong, effective communicator
- Strong organizational skills
- Professional writing skills
- Ability to work under pressure
- Excellent problem-solving skills
- Ability to work independently as well as in a group
- Corporate Communications
- Personalized Customer Service
- Community Advocacy
- Client Rapport-Building
- Maintain Systems
- Content Management Expertise
Accomplishments
- Virtual Instructional Design certificate
- Consulting Skills certificate
Timeline
Specialist
Penske Truck Leasing
11.2022 - Current
Economic Assistance
Department of Social Services
06.2018 - 05.2021
Licensing and Adoption Specialist
Child Protective Services
02.2016 - 06.2018
Children's Advocate
River City Family Connections
09.2015 - 01.2016
Center of Excellence Intern
ConAgra Foods
05.2015 - 07.2015
Training Administrator
Penske Truck Leasing
11.2001 - 09.2021
Bachelors of Science Degree - Communication Studies, Media and Journalism
University of South Dakota