Linda Hopper
Linda has twenty years experience in organizational and human resource development, consulting, training and executive management. She is skilled in designing and implementing organizational and employee development programs, compensation, benefits, and performance evaluation systems. Her experience includes managing programs in leadership, management, supervision, ethics, recruitment, staffing, compensation, benefits, performance management and review, mentoring, professional and interpersonal communication, public speaking, motivation, and employee development. Linda also has extensive training and platform experience. She is currently the Director, University Training and Organizational Development for Georgetown University. She has designed, developed, and implemented a wide range of management and employee development programs for all employees of the American Institute of Architects including a broad band compensation program, performance planning and review system; a quality focused assessment center; and conducted comprehensive executive and management training programs in developmental reviews. She also designed and conducted training in providing quality member services to enhance the Institute's responsiveness to AIA’s 55,000 members. Linda received three Exceptional Performance Awards for development of the AIA’s Inaugural Leadership Institute, the Component Leadership Orientation Program and leadership in educational initiatives. At Craver Mathews Smith & Company (CMS), Linda served as the Vice President for Human Resources. She developed and implemented human resources policies and programs for staff CMS and CAMS, a CMS subsidiary. She was a member of a senior management team that monitored the operations of the parent company and its subsidiary and introduced HRIS into company and reduced administrative costs. At CMS, Linda established compensation policies and plans, benefits programs, and hiring policies. She also managed the Administration Department and staff, established and administered the Human Resources Department's budget; monitored the Administration Department's budget, and administered the tuition reimbursement program. Linda also served as the President for Cashiering and Management Services (a subsidiary of CMS), a lock box operation that served large not-for-profit organizations where she developed and administered annual budget of over $1,000,000 and provided leadership and direction for staff of 35 and three divisions. Linda was also a Senior Consultant, Human Resources Group of Sterling Institute, where she worked with private and public sector clients to research, design, and present management education programs for executives, managers, and individual contributors. Among these organizations were Tandem Computers, the W.R. Bonsal Company, Seagram Research and Development, the Governor's Office of Employee Relations for the State of New York, and the New York State Department of Transportation. Prior to joining Sterling, she was the Director of Training for the International City Management Association in Washington, D.C., the professional and educational association for local government professionals. While at ICMA, she directed the Training Institute, which awarded certificates in management to government professionals. Her division produced off-the-shelf training programs in performance evaluation, motivation, staff-manager relations, ethics, customer service, finance, fire, and public works. She also provided on-site consultation services to local governments, cities, counties, and international clients. In 1986, she served as the principal trainer for a U.N.-sponsored program for 26 Arab administrators under the direction of the Arab Organization of Administrative Sciences in Amman, Jordan. Linda designed and conducted training for managers and supervisors at the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority and was the Training Coordinator for Wider Opportunities for Women's Nontraditional Work programs, which trained women for jobs in electronics and electro-mechanics. She also taught a variety of communication courses for the University of Pittsburgh and Memphis State University as well as a maximum security prison for men in Pittsburgh.
She is the author or co-author the following handbooks and guides: <
She served as the Chairperson of the Arlington County - Alexandria, Virginia Private Industry Council and as the Chairperson of the Business Advisory Council for the Arlington Employment Center. In addition, she was included in Who's Who in American Women.
Education
B.A. in Sociology, Memphis State University
M.A. (course work), Rhetoric and Communication Arts, Memphis State University
Executive Master's of General Administration course work, The University of Maryland