Theresa Creedon

“I had the great pleasure of working with Theresa on the Culture Champions Community of Ascensia Diabetes Care. This self-organized and project-based program provides the opportunity to develop and implement initiatives to strengthen the Company Culture by amplifying our key behaviors. Leading one of our workstreams, Theresa was fundamental in bringing the team together, framing our tasks, and inspiring all to collaborate actively. I admire her strength in looking behind the scene, gently digging into the drivers and barriers, and reframing to help others get the full picture. Theresa is a highly committed, self-driven personality, eager to achieve results as a team, and always willing to jump in and support colleagues. Her drive is highly contageous.”

“Theresa and I have worked closely together for the past four and a half years. As Chief of Staff to the VP HR & Communications, (now Corporate HR Head of PHC International) Theresa has played a key role in two areas I'd like to highlight. First, she has frequently planned and facilitated strategy sessions for the leadership team. Theresa is a natural facilitator, she’s creative in her approach, and does a great job both in planning content and guiding discussions. She’s particularly good at listening to differing perspectives, finding the areas of agreement and asking questions to drive the team toward consensus. She’s flexible, open minded and completely agreeable to taking different approaches than the one she may have recommended if it drives to a solution. Secondly, Theresa has a passion for learning and innovation that I don’t see in many people. She embraces new ideas, new technologies and platforms and is always seeking information that helps her learn, understand, and share her knowledge with others. Much of this at work is oriented toward utilization of tools and technologies, but as a person who with a curious mind who is always actively looking for opportunities to learn, grow and bring new concepts to fruition, she is action oriented with a “why not” approach that has enabled her to take unformed ideas and turn them into reality. She introduced and piloted a Ted Talk series at our New Jersey site, which slowly caught on over time as she continued to tweak the format until it became institutionalized so that other people started hosting the series with their recommended content, and the concept was picked up at other sites. Theresa also has unlimited passion and energy for driving culture. As a member of the newly formed culture champion community Theresa was instrumental in leading a cross-functional team to develop and establish a format and platforms for employees to share their knowledge globally across our multiple sites. This required a lot of ideating, perseverance and solutioning to overcome challenges, while influencing others, and driving a shared sense of responsibility and accountability within the team. Theresa is refreshingly upbeat, positive and confident that there is a solution for every problem. She takes the time and makes the effort to find solutions, and looks upon “failure” as a temporary setback that offers an opportunity to learn and grow. ”