Bethany Atwood is pursuing a business management career utilizing strengths in transformational leadership, creativity, vision, and practicality. She is currently an HR Assistant at Emerald Downs Racing where her responsibilities include onboarding, training, audits, and policy work. Previously she has held roles as a delivery driver for Pizza Hut, merchandiser for Pepsi Bottling Group, and shift manager/driver for Pizza Hut. She is set to graduate from Pierce College in June 2016 with a 3.11 GPA and has received academic honors.
Learn to Lead: A Key Ingredient to Helping Others SucceedKuder, Inc.
Whether you’re an educator, counselor, school administrator, or workforce development professional, you play a key role in helping students and adults reach success. Attend this session to learn how participating in professional development can help you better assist students and clients as they navigate life’s journey.
Presented by Quint DeWitte
NCPN 2014
Learn to Lead: A Key Ingredient to Helping Others SucceedKuder, Inc.
Whether you’re an educator, counselor, school administrator, or workforce development professional, you play a key role in helping students and adults reach success. Attend this session to learn how participating in professional development can help you better assist students and clients as they navigate life’s journey.
Presented by Quint DeWitte
NCPN 2014
In business and in life, we pursue the good stuff and champion people who are known for their good ideas. But when we place too strong an emphasis on just the good, we may neglect to consider the bad ones. In design and in brainstorming, deliberately seeking out bad ideas is a powerful way to unlock creativity. Generating bad ideas can reveal our assumptions about the difference between bad and good, and often seemingly bad ideas turn out to be good ones. Jotly and Cow Clicker were jokes/parodies (e.g., not good ideas) that have been surprisingly successful. Neil Young and Crazy Horse have covered folk songs. An action blockbuster features a US president swinging a silver axe against vampires. In this talk, I explore how opening up the bad idea valve can lead unexpectedly to the kind of success we aim for with our good ideas.
I led a workshop at MX Conference on March 30 2016 where I taught participants how to increase their organization's appreciation and respect for the design process.
1. Bethany Atwood
253.327.9186 | batwood1662@smail.pcd.edu
Professional Summary
Pursuing to become a successful business manager in today’s diverse workplaceby providing unique
perspectives, cultivatinggrowth in others, and creating synergistic relationships. Some of the strengths I offer
are: transformational leadership, intuition, creativity,and a rare combination of vision and practicality.
Education
Pierce College Fort Steilacoom LakewoodWA
Current GPA 3.11 Expected graduation June 2016
Achievements
President’s List for Pierce College September 2015 to current
Dean’s List for Pierce College September 2014 to August 2015
Citizenship/Leadership Project September 2014 to Dec 2014
Skills & Abilities
Employment Experience
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
Proficientwith MicrosoftWord,Excel, PowerPoint, WordPress, ADP, AOD,CoolWorks, and Outlook.Skilled with
all officeequipment. Typing speed 40wpm. Excellentcustomer service,employee relationship management, and
conflictmanagement skills. Human Resource skills: data entry, auditing, onboarding, policy creation, etc.
COMMUNICATION
Experience and education in communication withemphasis on: sending clear messages, listening intently to the
reply, paraphrasing to confirm, asking questions forunderstanding, utilizing emotional intelligence to gage
situations, and body language awareness. Always communicating with respect and courtesy.
LEADERSHIP&MANAGEMENT
Experience and education in creativeproblem solving, utilizing resources, motivating employees, and providing
quality customer service internally and externally; leadership characteristics: influencing productive team
dynamics, empowering people, and creating a positive atmosphere; personal values: honesty, integrity, empathy
for others, and leading by example.
HUMANRESOURCES ASSISTANT |EMERALD DOWNS RACING |DEC 2015TOCURRENT
· Currently I am an HR assistant withthe followingresponsibilities: Onboarding employees, organizing and
implementing manager and employee training, completing various auditing projects, conducting safety
committee meetings, managing employee files, creating and enforcing state, federal, and company policies, and
completing various tasks regarding FMLA, ACA, L & I, benefits, and other organizational policy accounts.
DELIVERDRIVER |PIZZAHUT | APRIL 2014TO DEC 2015
· Worked as a delivery driver and responsible for:delivering customer orders, handling cash and credit card
transactions, foodproduction, food safety,cleaning and stocking, and entering orders into the computer system.
MERCHANDISER |PEPSIBOTTLING GROUP|AUG 2011TO JAN 2014
· As a merchandiser I stocked shelves in all grocery locations on my route, managed inventory and breakage,
managed customer relationships, assisted in designing and building displays, unloaded incoming deliveries,
managed productrotation, and prepared inventory for new shipments.
SHIFT MANAGER/DRIVER|PIZZA HUT | 2007TO 2011
· My role as a shift manager was to manage all employees and production during my specific shift.
Responsibilities: managing employees, managing customer service, stocking and organizing inventory,
managing labor and production cost,food prep, maintenance, and other misc. tasks.