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A native of Oklahoma City, Nancy's 29-year career has encompassed both the for-profit and non-profit sectors of business.
Beginning January 1, 2007, Nancy began serving as Senior Vice President of Franchise HR Development for SONIC Industries., the Oklahoma City-based national headquarters of SONIC, America's Drive-In. In her new role, she oversees the human resource development for the chain's franchise community. This is a new area of service for the company as SONIC strives to help its franchisees build the best small businesses in America. Nancy welcomes the opportunity to build a new function within the organization that will add value to SONIC's franchise community long term.
Previously, Nancy served as Senior Vice President-People and Communications for SONIC Corp. In that role, she oversaw SONIC's human resources/corporate administration functions for the Oklahoma City corporate office and all field-based employees, in addition to guiding SONIC's corporate communications efforts.
In her role on the People side of the business, Nancy has led efforts to evolve SONIC's human resource function from a personnel department into a strategic, spirited organization that maximizes human capital potential in the talent base of its employees. Her leadership in the Talent Management process has been culturally sensitive while creatively driving the systems and processes necessary to manage human capital in a comprehensive way. In particular, she has provided the strategy and resources necessary to migrate systems and processes from a manual, paper laden environment.
In providing oversight to SONIC's Corporate Communications function, Nancy and her team are responsible for all public, community (including corporate philanthropy), media, as well as all internal and external communications and crisis management. As chair of SONIC's crisis management team, Nancy has guided the company's crisis preparedness by taking a proactive and strategic approach to protecting SONIC's customers, employees, stockholders and the brand. She also serves as the company spokesperson for the more than 3200-unit chain of fast-food drive-in restaurants.
Nancy serves on Board of Visitors for the Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts at the University of Oklahoma, on the Executive Committee of Allied Arts Foundation, and the Crown Heights Edgemere Heights Neighborhood Association. Most recently she served on the Board of the Cimarron Alliance Foundation; on the leadership team for the Human Capital & Diversity Project, an economic development initiative of the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce; on the Executive Committee of the Oklahoma Arts Institute; on the steering committee for the Holocaust Remembrance Project, and on the steering committee for Project KIDS, the program that led to MAPS for KIDS, a citywide tax initiative to reinvest in public education.
Nancy was a member of Class XIV of Leadership Oklahoma. Previously, she served on the Arts Advisory Committee for the Oklahoma City Public Schools, the steering committee for A+Arts, A Talent Show!, on the boards of the Red Bud Foundation and Automobile Alley, a Main Street revitalization project in downtown Oklahoma City. Nancy is an active tutor at Wilson Arts Integration School (located in Oklahoma City) having tutored students there for 10 years.
Prior to joining SONIC more than 13 years ago, Nancy worked for five years at the Oklahoma Arts Institute, the non-profit organization that produces the nationally recognized Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute and the Oklahoma Fall Arts Institutes at Quartz Mountain.
Her career began as a reporter and senior news producer at the CBS affiliate in Oklahoma City. Following her work as a reporter/producer, Nancy was recruited into the corporate sector as a public relations professional for both Southwestern Bell Telephone and Cellular One/AT&T Wireless.
Nancy holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Journalism from Oklahoma State University with a minor in Art History, and a Masters in Business Administration from Oklahoma City University, a private Methodist school. | 