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ROSA BREEN
Summary
Professionally Rosa has worked internationally as a senior business relationship manager and recruitment consultant and currently works as a career and workplace coach supporting neurominorities in the workplace based on their unique strengths and challenges. She takes a strengths-based, solution-focused approach. Passionate about mental health, Rosa emphasizes emotional well-being and resilience to explore unhelpful thought patterns with unconditional positive regard, compassion and sensitivity. Seeks ’collaborative partnerships within neuro-inclusive and diverse workplaces, in career and/or work strategy coaching, training, or consultancy. A remote-first company that offers flexible working arrangements and ongoing professional growth and development is desirable.
Results-driven Coach dedicated to building focused, high-achieving teams through goal-oriented training and mentorship. Skilled at recruiting reliable staff and assistants for unified team culture and purpose-driven squad support. Proponent of detailed finance and resource management to maintain positive perception of program and expand competitive opportunities.
Overview
27
27
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
Neurodiversity Career and Work Strategy Associate Coach
Rosa Breen Coaching
01.2021 - Current
- Currently partners with leading UK specialist psychological consultancies and occupational health and wellbeing providers delivering training and coaching to employers
- Coaching includes Strategy Coaching (focused on specific work areas of challenge and strengths)
- Career Coaching aimed at early to mid-level professionals seeking support in identifying career goals or taking the next step in career development and Neurodiversity Development Coaching for managers seeking support in managing the needs of neurodivergent team members
- Delivered collaborative, self-directive and person-centered work strategy and careers coaching online to support customers identify and achieve work-related goals
- This included guidance on career development, job search strategies, CV development, interview coaching, career transitions and emotional resilience
- Development of appropriate strategies for customers to be supported in their specific workplace: mental health wellbeing in work, resilience, improving memory, attention and concentration, planning, prioritizing, energy management, emotional resilience, managing change in the workplace to improve confidence, performance, consistency, effectiveness and self-esteem
- Supported customers learn, reflect, and discover their own answers by providing tools, encouragement, and motivation to address specific career challenges to achieve career goals
- This included helping develop agency and advocacy to grow their own understanding of their unique neurodivergent profile and develop strengths
- Used strengths-based, solution-focused approaches to support customers move forward by creating awareness of behaviours and thought patterns
- This built resilience, self-efficacy, emotional health and self-esteem
- Coaching included prevention/recovery from burnout, problem-focused, meaning-focused, and social-focused coping strategies stress management/work well-being, building confidence, and executive functioning in areas across attention/concentration, procrastination, working memory, time management, structuring and prioritising workload
- Supported customers manage mental health and well-being including reframing around overwhelm, shame, guilt and negative belief systems and anxiety around ability
- This also included building well-being plans and recovery from burnout
- Facilitated and delivered co-coaching sessions with line managers and employees to support ways of working
Specialist Career Coach
Evenbreak
02.2021 - 03.2022
- Company Overview: Evenbreak is an award-winning specialist disabled job board and social enterprise supporting all ages and all disabilities
- Co-designed and created an innovative service and neurodiverse community
- Collaborated with coaches and leadership in the build and development of a robust coaching framework and careers outcomes metric tracking system
- Participated in Inclusive recruitment and DEI panels including Lexxic Neurodiversity Week, delivered in-house Neurodiversity awareness workshops across the public/private sector and guest speaker at CDI CYMRU Wales Career Development Institute supporting women with ADHAD into work
- Delivered high-quality career coaching over 12 months to a caseload of 100+ clients with neurodiverse, mental health and short/long-term physical conditions
- Empowered clients via the delivery of assessments to support the identification of challenges/barriers in and within the world of work
- Included strengths, work values, work environment/fit and adjustment assessments
- Guided clients through results which led to a collaborative co-design of adjustment strategies
- Conducted career management assessments which led to the creation of individual SMART goal plans
- This resulted in 42% of long-term unemployed clients being supported into the world of work, supported employment, or entrepreneurial programmes and business coaching
- Instigated sharing of best practices with coaches
- This resulted in creating a learning culture, improving productivity, celebrating subject knowledge expertise, and building a collaborative work environment
- Evenbreak is an award-winning specialist disabled job board and social enterprise supporting all ages and all disabilities
- Created a new measurement tool to assess client progression in eight key domains to show their transformation during coaching
- Designed, produced and hosted, digital career content for digital careers hub (accessible articles, webinar)
- Instrumental in driving up to 30% of all online e-learning content which enabled clients access inclusive e-learning careers support 24/7
- Created and hosted ‘Meet the Employer’ and coaching webinars: designed and wrote the training content, secured collaboration of industry-led coaching experts, and supported by marketing to my extensive network
- Resulted in the delivery of 40 high-quality expert-led training and coaching webinars within a 7-month period and with an 83% high satisfaction rating
Career Coach
Career Wave
01.2015 - 02.2021
- Company Overview: Newcastle Uni | SDS
- Successfully supported 1:1 career coaching with 98% of clients achieving a positive destination
- Newcastle Uni | SDS
- Delivered tailored 1:1 clinics and mock interviews for the Faculty of Medicine
- Enhanced student career management skills boosted resilience and confidence via a strength-based coaching approach
- This included mind mapping, brainstorming visualizations, and the use of visual aids
- Authored and created careers literature CACHE career articles and blogs on resilience strategies
- Successfully created a peer-to-peer supervision training manual to support sharing best practices and enhanced career coaching
BDM Manager, Premier Employment Sr Recruiter
SEEK
09.1997 - 06.2011
- Delivered effective recruitment solutions and employer brand campaigns for employers
- Increased digital media advertising revenue by 45% (5000,000)
- Developed and delivered best practice job advert writing and job seeker attraction workshops and successfully met all financial sales targets
- Resulted in raising turnover from $200,000 to $400,000
- Managed permanent division in a new start-up from ground zero generating £150,000K revenue in the first year
- Achieved top recruiter award in a recruitment firm with over thirty UK branches
Education
BA - English & Media
Arts
Level 7, Postgraduate Diploma Coaching - PG Dip. with distinction
Careers Guidance
Certificate - undefined
Personnel Practice
ILM Effective Coaching and Mentoring - Level 5 (Pass)
Mental Health Awareness - Level 2
Level 2/3 - undefined
Safeguarding young people and adults
Neurodiversity Awareness - undefined
Skills
- Coaching Skills
- Workplace Strategy Coaching
- Communication and Social Rapport
- Organising and Planning
- Managing Change
- Managing Relationships
- Managing Conflict
- Attention and Concentration
- Building Confidence
- Creating and Maintaining Healthy Work Habits
- Time Management
- Setting Boundaries
- Work Wellbeing
- Neurodiversity Awareness
- Workplace Coaching
- Safeguarding
- Inclusive Recruitment
- Reasonable Adjustments and Workplace Needs Assessments
- Assistive Technology Software
- Equality ACT
- Equal Opportunities
- Diversity
- Professional ethics
Coachingskills
- One-to-one and group coaching
- Workshops
- Career Counselling
- Career Development
- Career Path Planning
- Job Search
- Resume Writing
- Interview Coaching
- Identifying and Assessing Professional Values
- Goal setting and Feedbacking
Workplacestrategycoaching
- Communication and Social Rapport
- Organising and Planning
- Managing Change
- Managing Relationships
- Managing Conflict
- Attention and Concentration
- Building Confidence
- Creating and Maintaining Healthy Work Habits
- Time Management
- Setting Boundaries
- Work Wellbeing
Successstories
- Participated in Inclusive recruitment and DEI panels including Lexxic Neurodiversity Week.
- Developed and delivered effective coaching strategies that supported neurodivergent clients’ employment-related challenges.
- Created coaching and learning content on various topics.
- Successfully project managed an international student diversity and inclusion programme.
- Pioneered and designed a series of innovative interactive coaching materials.
Coachingexpertise
Experienced in coaching diverse clients at all levels including supporting clients with varied combinations of neurodiverse, neurological and mental health conditions.
Membership
- Currently going through ICF Accreditation
- Career Development Institute (CDI)
- Applied Neuroscience Association
Certification
2015. Level 7, Postgraduate Diploma Coaching, Careers Guidance (PG Dip. with distinction)
2015 Coaching Approach to Guidance, career theory model of empowering the client. (QCD)
2011 Certificate, Personnel Practice
ILM Effective Coaching and Mentoring, Level 5 (Pass)
2016 Mental Health Awareness Level 2
2024 Level 2/3 Safeguarding young people and adults
2024 Neurodiversity Awareness
2019 - This brilliant brain, some implications for careers work - Career Development Institute (CDi)
2019 - STEM Careers; inspiring opportunities in school-leavers.
2019 - Applied story building for careers. Embracing nero diversity - Career Development Institute (CDi
2018 - ‘Am I adrift or do I have a plan’ - Career Planning Workshop, Newcastle University
2018 - Mental Health Awareness - City of Glasgow College - Skills Development Scotland Academy
2017 - Project Management - Skills Development Scotland Academy
2015 - Career Management Skills(Level 5) - Skills Development Scotland Academy
Accomplishments
§ Co-designed and created an innovative service and neurodiverse community. Collaborated with coaches and leadership in the build and development of a robust coaching framework and careers outcomes metric tracking system.
§ Participated in Inclusive recruitment and DEI panels including Lexxic Neurodiversity Week, delivered in-house Neurodiversity awareness workshops across the public/private sector and guest speaker at CDI CYMRU Wales Career Development Institute supporting women with ADHAD into work
§ Delivered high-quality career coaching over 12 months to a caseload of 100+ clients with neurodiverse, mental health and short/long-term physical conditions.
§ Empowered clients via the delivery of assessments to support the identification of challenges/barriers in and within the world of work. Included strengths, work values, work environment/fit and adjustment assessments. Guided clients through results which led to a collaborative co-design of adjustment strategies
§ Conducted career management assessments which led to the creation of individual SMART goal plans. This resulted in 42% of long-term unemployed clients being supported into the world of work, supported employment, or entrepreneurial programmes and business coaching
§ Instigated sharing of best practices with coaches. This resulted in creating a learning culture, improving productivity, celebrating subject knowledge expertise, and building a collaborative work environment.
Software
Zoom
Microsoft Office
Canva
Work Preference
Work Type
Part TimeWork Location
RemoteImportant To Me
Career advancementWork-life balanceCompany CultureWork from home optionPersonal development programsInterests
Neurodiversity
Wellness
Timeline
Specialist Career Coach
Evenbreak
02.2021 - 03.2022
Neurodiversity Career and Work Strategy Associate Coach
Rosa Breen Coaching
01.2021 - Current
Career Coach
Career Wave
01.2015 - 02.2021
BDM Manager, Premier Employment Sr Recruiter
SEEK
09.1997 - 06.2011
Level 7, Postgraduate Diploma Coaching - PG Dip. with distinction
Careers Guidance
Certificate - undefined
Personnel Practice
ILM Effective Coaching and Mentoring - Level 5 (Pass)
Mental Health Awareness - Level 2
Level 2/3 - undefined
Safeguarding young people and adults
Neurodiversity Awareness - undefined
BA - English & Media
Arts
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Adplatform<ul><li>Roles and Responsibilities</li><li>Hiring and team building</li><li>Managing team’s career progression and performance reviews</li><li>Managing Performance improvement plan and firing</li><li>Mentoring</li><li>Product roadmap planning and execution</li><li>Accountability of the entire delivery execution including the risk mitigation planning.</li><li>Stakeholder management</li><li>Adhering to Apple Privacy and Security Guidelines for platform</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage all online services for AdXchange in Apple Ads.</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions deliver Budget experimentation in Apple Ads</li><li>Design and implementation of new architectures and solutions to manage data for Ad Platform.</li><li>Creating and maintaining all the data and analytics and revenue pipelines for Ad Platforms</li><li>Driving the solution for data ingestions and data processing across Ad platform</li><li>Defining the Strategy for data governance and data access</li><li>Collaboration with business to deliver relevant data and insight for our strategy and decisions.</li><li>Managing storage, processing, copy/synchronization etc. appropriate to scale</li><li>Enabling machine learning and algorithm groups by proving them right frameworks and data</li><li>Advancing team’s design methodology and quality programming practices and evangelize those techniques across Ad platform.</li><li>Deliveries</li><li>Setup 8+ member team to design and deliver Budget Allocation and Budget experimentation.</li><li>Leading Ad Delivery services team, responsible for delivering various capabilities like query understanding, targeting, fraud etc.</li><li>Delivered and Lead Design for observability for budget, and data platform in Ad platform.</li><li>Setup 11+ members high performing team to handle various business needs such as analytics and micro services for Display Advertising as well as Data Platform</li><li>Instrumental in driving Data Platform throughout the SDLC from inception, design, development, testing and deployment.</li><li>Instilled a strong team culture of high-quality delivery by constructive feedback, cross collaboration, focus and motivation.</li><li>Delivered Realtime and Batch Platform with various integrations</li><li>Delivered new DIP design for Data Platform</li><li>Delivered design of all the components of Data processing platform</li><li>Transitioned Display data work to India seamlessly and delivered many critical business impacting features and organizational security initiatives.</li><li>Closely worked with various stakeholders to understand the requirements which resulted into efficient remote work culture.</li><li>Seamless Display execution and set up best practices for 24X7 production on-call.</li><li>Tools and Technologies</li><li>AWS, S3, Kafka, Spark, Hadoop, EMR, Hive, Scoop, Flume, Cassandra, Airflow, Oozie, Gobblin, Schema Store, Icloud, Grafana, Kubernetes, Vertica, Alation, snowflake, druid, Iceberg, Java, Scala, IntelliJ, Oracle, MySql, Git, RIO, Spinnaker, Elastic cache, Grpc, Agile.</li></ul> at Apple - 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