Liisa Pursiheimo-Marcks, SPHR

Liisa Pursiheimo-Marcks’ passion is to drive sustainable change through building capabilities and establishing new behaviors. As a Talent Management and Performance Consultant, Liisa has worked in a variety of industries on talent and change management, execution of large scale training programs and developing and monitoring learning analytics.

Liisa is a skilled facilitator who engages her audience by storytelling and encouraging open discussion and interaction. She is a certified facilitator by Development Dimensions International (DDI) who has delivered multiple training sessions to all levels of leaders.

Liisa has facilitated team meetings and management meetings, such as strategic planning sessions, quarterly product portfolio reviews and change initiative kick off meetings. She works closely with the client to design and deliver a meeting that fits the purpose. She is especially skilled at helping teams see and articulate their vision in an actionable way.

Liisa has extensive experience in helping sales and marketing organizations improve productivity, grow revenue and increase profitability through skill building and process improvement. With her change leadership, Freescale Semiconductor introduced a new solution selling methodology to its global sales force which led to an 8% increase in design wins. She also built product definition skills of its marketing community. Liisa implemented a customer loyalty workshop for over 500 senior leaders, which contributed to a 50% improvement in the customer loyalty scores. She managed the succession planning for the global sales and marketing organization of over 1000 employees, and was in the key task force to re-engineer the performance management process and system for the corporation. Over the years, Liisa has built training curricula and annual training plans for various functional groups’ needs.

Liisa has a Master’s degree in Economics and Business Administration, with special emphasis on International Marketing. She is a certified Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR). Having led global teams and lived on four continents, Liisa provides deep insight on navigating national and organizational cultures. She speaks English, Finnish and Spanish, plus some Swedish and German. Liisa has continued education in consulting, learning analytics, consultative selling and organization design. Liisa is a member of Austin Human Resources Management Association, Society of Human Resources Management, Austin Society of Training and Development, and American Society of Training and Development.

You may contact Liisa at (512) 484-8263 or liisa@forteconsulting.biz.
For Liisa’s blog on talent and performance, go to www.forteconsulting.wordpress.com .
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