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Polly Baylis

Energizer · DISC type I
Performance Consulting at Career and Development Coaching
📍 San Francisco Bay Area, United States

Polly is an innovative talent and human resources professional with extensive experience at major organizations like Stanford University, Yahoo, and Lockheed Martin. She specializes in creating talent strategies and performance solutions to drive business results. Polly holds an MBA from Santa Clara University and a BA from UCLA.

She runs her own performance consulting practice, providing career and development counseling to individuals. Her work focuses on helping clients with job transitions, manager development, and building a personal brand, indicating a passion for helping others achieve their professional goals.

Unique fact: While at Stanford University, she managed the workforce strategy for the universitys expansion to an additional campus site.

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Experience
16 Years
Current Role
Performance Consulting
Location
San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Personality Overview

How Polly shows up

Relationship Oriented
Believer
Enthusiastic

They are people oriented, friendly and like creating new connections. They are not always early adopters but can be pursuaded by leveraging strong relationships. They excel at seeing the bigger picture, and the long-term impact of their decisions.

Priorities

Topics Polly cares about

Talent Strategy
Her career has focused on delivering long- and short-term talent strategies at companies like Yahoo, Stanford, and Applied Materials.
Performance Management
She led the redesign and implementation of performance management systems at Yahoo to create a culture of continuous feedback and development.
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Career

Work history

4-2017
Performance Consulting
Career and Development Coaching
2-2020 - 7-2024
Human Resources Business Partner
Lockheed Martin
6-2016 - 1-2017
Associate VP, Talent Acquisition, Talent Management and Workforce Strategy
Stanford University
5-2013 - 5-2016
Sr. Director, Talent Management, Performance Management, Culture & Engagement
Yahoo
7-2010 - 12-2012
Managing Director, Talent Management, Learning & Development, Diversity & Inclusion
Applied Materials
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Media appearances

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Education
MBA
Santa Clara University
BA
UCLA
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Behavioral profile

DISC profile (public)

I

Influence (I)

Influence (I) reflects the degree to which a person prefers to work by influencing or persuading others. Those scoring high tend to be people oriented, motivated by social recognition and building relationships.

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