Gigi Sheppard

About Gigi Sheppard

Specialties: I specialize in hospitality, social media marketing, public relations and…

Experience

1. Virtual Executive Assistant Chief of Staff

   SAGE Virtual Staffing, LLC

   Jan 2013 — Present · Davenport, FL, US

   Conceptualize strategic initiatives to propel the achievement of corporate goals, streamlined operations, and maximized sta performance; directed human resources, performance management, budget administration, and sta mentoring and leadership.• Directs human resources, performance management, budget administration, sta mentoring and leadership.• Realizing consistent improvements in organizational protability, eciency, and performance through eective problem solving, organization, and interpersonal abilities.• Maintains spreadsheets and CRM through data entry, data processing and using software applications to create documents.• Meets with employees monthly to ensure their continued success.• Provides coaching, counseling, mentorship, and performance management.PROJECT MANAGEMENT• Collaborates with C-level executive clients to ensure their goals and objectives are executed with their sta, contractors, and vendors.• Deliver strategic innovation plan targets; identify incremental opportunities to accelerate growth.• Conducts project meeting with team members to explain roles/responsibilities, relationships with other groups, deliverables, timelines, assignments, and status reporting and assists with updating and revising plan, as necessary.• Ensure that projects are successfully launched; provide traditional project management functions; handle requirements denition, scope, meline, and budget monitoring.• Identies and works to remove barriers to successful completion of the overall project, with particular emphasis on resolving issues with cross-module implications.• Provided contract negotiations and created vendor relationships to save clients $250k in renovations on the building.

Education

• Florida Atlantic University

  Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Psychology

• Art Institute of Philadelphia

  Associate of Arts (A.A.), Interior Design

  2003 — 2007

• Penn State University

  Organizational Behavior, Industrial and Organizational Psychology

  2015 — 2016

• Delaware County Community College

  Associate of Arts and Sciences (A.A.S.), Behavioral Sciences

  2012 — 2014

Skills

• Wedding Planning
• Event Planning
• Nonprofits
• Sponsorship
• Outlook
• Team Building
• Management
• Fundraising
• Human Resources
• Trade Shows
• Leadership
• Account Management
• Hospitality
• Event Management
• Meeting Planning
• Food & Beverage
• Customer Service
• Public Relations
• Social Media Marketing
• Food
• Life Coaching
• Marketing
• New Business Development
• Budgets
• Food
• Corporate Events
• Social Networking
• Sales
• Time Management
• Non-Profits
• Social Media
• Weddings
• Marketing Communications