Danielle Okafor

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Learning and development leader with 11 years designing and scaling enterprise training programs across manufacturing, healthcare, and SaaS sectors. Specializes in needs analysis, blended learning architecture, and LMS administration. Reduced average onboarding time by 34% at two consecutive employers while lifting 90-day retention by 18 percentage points.

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Senior Training ManagerMar 2020 - Present

Veltris Health Systems, Atlanta, GA

Architected a 12-module blended onboarding curriculum for 1,400 clinical and administrative staff, cutting time-to-productivity from 9 weeks to 6 weeks and saving an estimated $2.1M in lost-productivity costs annually.
Built and managed a team of 7 instructional designers and facilitators, introducing quarterly calibration reviews that raised learner satisfaction scores from 3.6 to 4.7 out of 5 across 22 active programs.
Partnered with Compliance and Legal to redesign mandatory HIPAA and DEI training, achieving 99.4% completion within mandated windows for three consecutive years and eliminating two prior regulatory findings.

Training ManagerJun 2016 - Feb 2020

Corewood Industrial Solutions, Charlotte, NC

Launched a plant-floor safety training initiative across 4 facilities that reduced recordable incidents by 41% in 18 months, exceeding OSHA benchmarks and saving $870K in workers' compensation claims.
Migrated 60+ legacy instructor-led courses to Cornerstone OnDemand LMS, reducing delivery cost per learner by 28% and enabling on-demand access for 2,300 shift workers across three time zones.
Designed a leadership pipeline program that identified and developed 34 high-potential supervisors; 26 were promoted within 24 months, filling 78% of open frontline leadership roles internally.

Training SpecialistAug 2013 - May 2016

Nexara Software, Austin, TX

Developed product-knowledge and sales-methodology training for a 180-person inside sales team, contributing to a 22% year-over-year increase in quota attainment in the first full year post-launch.
Created a peer-coaching certification track that trained 40 senior reps as internal coaches, reducing reliance on external facilitators and cutting L&D vendor spend by $115K annually.
Administered Articulate 360 and Salesforce-integrated microlearning modules, maintaining a course library of 95 assets with an average learner completion rate of 87%.

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