Maria Nicholas-Groves

About Maria Nicholas-Groves

I founded Talent Growth Partners based on a simple belief: most business challenges are…

Experience

1. CEO & President

   Talent Growth Partners

   Aug 2016 — Present · WI, US

   Maria is the founder of Talent Growth Partners where she helps executive teams align their human capital strategy with their business strategy and goals. She believes having the right people in the right places drives superior business results and profits.With 40 cumulative years of experience, she and her team have successfully guided executives within fast growth industries as well as organizations that must transform to stay relevant and sustain into the future. They do this with values of trust, ferocious curiosity, objectivity, agility, and excellence.Maria brings a broad and global business view with bachelor degrees in Marketing and Human Resource Management and an International Executive MBA with an emphasis in Entrepreneurship & Innovation. Maria has traveled to over 40 countries through her work and studies.She is driven to build business results with her clients; she is obsessed with watching them thrive, inevitably this leads to long-term partnerships. Talent Growth Partners is an advisory firm providing talent strategy, business process and HR technology assessment, human resources consulting, succession planning, workforce planning, and a suite of recruiting services. We strive to help our clients create best-in-class teams, enhancing their ROI through our people-focused advisory services. Maria is also the founder of Feeding Mouths, Filling Minds; a non-profit that is eliminating the challenge of finding safe, dependable food and water sources so that children can focus on their future. The team works throughout East and West Africa and the USA. She and her team have built collaborative partners globally and locally.

Education

• Lubar College of Business

  Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.); Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A), Marketing; Human Resource Management

  1999 — 2003

• The International School of Management (ISM)

  International Executive MBA, Innovation & Entreprenuership

  2013 — 2016

Skills

• Talent Management
• Strategic Sales Plans
• Leadership Development
• Technical Recruiting
• Consulting
• Business Strategy
• Talent Acquisition
• Strategic Planning
• Finance
• Hris
• Strategic Partnerships
• Human Resources
• Program Management
• Cold Calling
• Relationship Building
• Outsourcing
• Leadership
• Training
• College Recruiting
• New Business Development
• Sales Management
• Team Management
• Strategy
• Marketing
• Sourcing
• Sales
• Applicant Tracking Systems
• Recruiting
• Networking
• Building Relationships
• Team Building
• Management
• Hiring