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Colleen P. Ramos Ph.D., SHRM-CP

Talent Optimization Partner

Strengths-based coach and Predictive Index consultant who facilitates the development of high-performing teams and links team styles to required business strategies, completing organizational goals and executive strategy.

Colleen P. Ramos Ph.D., SHRM-CP

Talent Optimization Partner
Strengths-based coach and Predictive Index consultant who facilitates the development of high-performing teams and links team styles to required business strategies, completing organizational goals and executive strategy.

Results-driven certified talent optimization professional building high-performance teams.

Unlock the potential of your teams and watch performance soar. Dr. Ramos has decades of experience optimizing the understanding of human productivity. Utilizing quantitative people data to help organizations make better decisions, create meaningful organizational change, and develop a flourishing culture is critical to organizational success. A multidisciplinary expert dedicated to building team dynamics and high-performance teams, Dr. Ramos, helps drive cultural assumptions, values, and behaviors that facilitate organizational change and process improvement.

As a former C-level administrator, Executive Strengths-Coach, and Predictive Index Talent Optimization Consultant, Dr. Ramos believes an organization’s people are its greatest asset and driver of organizational success. As an experienced leader and manager, her expertise has helped create start-ups and turned around declining campuses and programs through initiatives that have led to new revenue streams, increased profitability, and revitalized organizations in decline.

As a strengths-based coach and Predictive Index Talent Optimization consultant, Dr.Ramos works closely with leadership to hire talent that aligns with business strategies, allowing hiring managers to make informed decisions in a streamlined manner creating alignment between selection and hiring while recognizing the importance of an organization’s culture and values. Dr.Ramos works with leadership teams to align team objectives, unlocking unique insights that facilitate high-performing teams and linking styles to required business strategies to meet the strategic goals of the organization.

Help Business Succeed

  • Identify roles of individuals to complement each other to build high-performing teams
  • Support organizational goals and objectives by building high-performing employees and teams
  • Focus and align team goals to ensure milestones are met and organizational goals are achieved
  • Design high-performing work teams that are highly engaged and exceed expectations
  • Create successful onboarding programs to increase retention and support organizational goals and objectives
  • Develop training programs to increase productivity and address organizational needs by creating highly talented and informed employees
  • Develop non-financial reward systems to motivate and improve retention
  • Coach employees and teams to improve communication, work relationships and increase effectiveness in the workplace
  • Identify critical talent to recruit the right employees to achieve individual, team, and organizational goals
  • Design, and implement effective emergency and long term succession to ensure to have the employees you need when change takes place

Professional Certifications

  • The Society for HR Management
    SHRM-CP (SHRM Certified Professional)
  • Predictive Index
    • Leadership and Management Certificate Consultant
    • Certified PI Consultant-Talent Optimization
  • Gallup
    • Certified Strengths Coach
    • Certified Strengths Advocate
  • MSCEIT
    • Emotional Intelligence Certified
  • Talent Optimization Certified
  • Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator

Professional Affiliations

  • Society for Human Resource Management
  • Association of Training and Development

Publications

  • Effect of Emotional Intelligence Upon Grade Point Average and Student Satisfaction in a Nontraditional College (2010).
  • Academic Continuous Quality Improvement: Applying C.S.. 3.3.1.1. in a Multi-Campus Environment (2015).

Education

  • Barry University, Orlando, FL
    Doctorate of Philosophy, Education & Leadership and Human Resource Development 2001-2009
  • The College of Saint Rose,
    Master of Education, College Student Personnel 1997-1999
  • State University of New York,
    Bachelors of Art, Sociology,1993-1997

Volunteer

  • Great Futures Grant- Strengths Coaching and Advising @ The Boys and Girls Clubs of Central Florida. (2013- Present).

TALENT OPTIMIZATION | COACHING | ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE

Human Resource Development
Organizational Change
Human Capital
Leadership & Team Building

Talent Optimization
Problem Solving/ Critical Thinking
Project Management
Strategic Planning

Program Development
Technical Knowledge (ERP)
Training and Development
Coaching

Practical Experience, Impactful Solutions

Identify roles and personalities to complement each other

Developing synergy of action that maximizes productivity and innovation.

Driving the development of individual awareness of innate behavioral styles, dyadic dynamics that reduce conflict and significantly improve the power of two. 

Create strengths-based organizations

Building on what’s right and defining others by their talents

Built awareness of individual member strengths and helped alter the paradigm from a focus on deficits to innate talents and strengths.

Build and inspire high-performing employees and teams

Leveraging the Power of Two towards innovation and creativity

Led teams to acknowledge and implement complementary innate abilities and proactively solve conflict, while inspiring innovation, productivity, and energy. 

Focused and align team goals.

Building congruence between the team’s capabilities and the business strategy

Uncovered and connected the unique team style operating within the current dynamic and defining the needed business strategy required by the organization to be successful.

Build effective communication and trust

Developed a common language that transcended barriers and motivated Synergy

Altered the assumptions that impeded communication barriers and developed an acute awareness of the connection between language/linguistics and driving cooperation and synergy. 

Design high-performing teams with predictability

Strategized actions and expanded team members behavioral and emotional repertoire

Worked with team members to stretch innate abilities and cognitive styles or add members to the team that matched the needs of the changing business strategy.

30+ years Optimizing human resources understanding

Roles Served

  • Business Professor
  • Dissertation Mentor
  • EMBA Coach
    Dean of Academic Affairs
  • Associate Vice Chancellor of Institutional Research, Planning, and Assessment
  • Associate Dean of the College of Business and Management
  • Vice President of Enrollment Management and Professional Studies
  • Dean of Graduate of Professional Studies
  • Dean of Curriculum and Services

At educational institutions

  • Capella University, Minneapolis, MN
  • Keiser University, Orlando, FL
  • National Louis University
  • Stetson University, DeLand, FL
  • Abilene Christian University, Addison, TX
  • Keiser University, Ft. Lauderdale, FL
  • DeVry University, Orlando, FL
  • Atlanta Christian College, East Point, GA
  • Northwest Christian College, Eugene, OR
  • Belhaven University, Maitland, FL

Courses Taught

  • Human Resource Management
  • Managing Diversity
  • Leadership and Change
  • Performance Analysis and Measurement
  • Organizational Effectiveness and Development
  • Managing Organizational Change
  • Human Resource Planning
  • Learning Strategies for Adults
  • Introduction to Adult Learning
  • Portfolio Development
  • The Family
  • Social Services Field Experience
  • Foundations of Lifelong Learning

Colleen will use her expertise as a certified strengths-based coach and Predictive Index consultant to help you hire and retain the right people then connect those high-performance individuals and teams to impact your effectiveness to better meet organizational outcomes business strategies, completing organizational goals, and executive strategy.