Thad Standley

Change Management - Worked with Teams and Functions to assess change management issues and develop action plans to effectively reach their goals. - Conducted stakeholder analyses to assess readiness for change and develop plans to engage the stakeholders - Assisted with organizational alignment efforts to ensure that business processes and practices will sustain the changes. Strategy and business planning - Facilitated Corporate Functions, Centers of Expertise and Platform Functional Teams with developing multi-year strategies and annual business plans. - Assisted functional groups with organizational redesign. This includes helping to establish organizational design principles and values. Leadership Development & Training - Led global leadership development strategy for Cargill’s Finance Function for senior and mid-level talent. - Governed the learning and development strategy for behavioral and technical skills for Cargill’s Finance Function. Diversity & Inclusion - Led Cargill Finance with developing a global diversity and inclusion strategy. - Increased senior Cargill Finance Leaders’ understanding and commitment to diversity and inclusion by developing diversity programming and providing leadership coaching. - Improved cross functional efforts to collaborate with other Cargill functions on diversity recruiting. - Led teams to address diversity development and retention efforts. Implemented programming for onboarding and developing diverse talent throughout their careers. Specialties: Change management, strategy and business planning, leadership development and training, team facilitation, university recruiting, diversity and inclusion.