Loretta Love Huff is a seasoned corporate executive with over 30 years of experience in human resources, information systems, commercial lending, and market research management. She has held HR leadership positions at Sears, Roebuck and Co., Kraft Foods, Apple Computer, Sega of America and PDI/Dreamworks.
Loretta has taught Career Management, Organizational Leadership and Change Management, Systems Thinking, Organizational Behavior and Conflict Management for the graduate divisions of the University of Phoenix and Ottawa University. She has also taught classes on entrepreneurship at South Mountain Community College since 2010.
Over the last 20 years, as an award-winning leadership coach and performance improvement consultant, Loretta has helped numerous clients optimize their performance and accomplish their business goals.
Loretta leverages her multi-disciplinary business background to help her clients broaden their perspective, understand the implications of their actions and build coalitions to raise the performance of their organizations.
She helps clients identify and dispel false beliefs that hinder achievements, develop pragmatic yet expansive action plans and holds them accountable for achieving the goals they've set. With her, they find the confidence, courage and pathway to take action on their ideas and exceed their dreams.
Specialties: Business communication (leadership, presentation skills and sales), performance improvement (strategic planning, goal setting and implementation) and staff management.
Industry Experience: Loretta has worked successfully with private- and public-sector executives and professionals from a variety of disciplines including technology, healthcare, financial services, marketing and sales. She has trained and coached leaders and teams within Hewlett-Packard, Sprint, Arizona Power Supply (APS), Salt River Project (SRP), Allstate, Visa, Schwab, KPMG, Wells Fargo, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Arizona State University, Maricopa County, the Mayo Clinic, State Farm and Merrill Lynch/Bank of America.
Loretta has been featured several times on the Phoenix Fox10 Morning News show and radio shows across the country and quoted in the New York Times, Black Enterprise, the Arizona Republic, the Phoenix Business Journal, Arizona Woman and Working Mother magazine. She is the author of two books, Leadership without Limits: Inspiring the Best in Yourself, Your People and Your Organization and 6 Keys for Dissolving Disputes: When Off with Their Heads' Won't Work.
Certifications: New Ventures West Integral Coach, International Coach Federation, World at Work Certified Compensation Professional, Whale Hunters Sales Training Partner, Get Clients Now Certified Facilitator
Education: Loretta holds a B.S. in Psychology from Howard University and an M.B.A in Finance from the University of Chicago.
Loretta "Helps People and Teams EXCEED their Dreams!™