​Delivering Organizational Performance through Innovation, Strategy, Relationships and Teamwork

​​​In my career I am a strategic, entrepreneurial, and analytical executive with track record of developing and executing strategy and growth plans, building brand awareness, fixing broken things, and developing strategic partnerships. I have a proven ability to:

• Establish vision and strategy to align organizational resources for growth and expansion.

• Take high-level – “back-of-the-napkin” – ideas and convert them to comprehensive and actionable plans.

• Deliver large-scale strategic initiatives in dynamic, often turbulent, market environments.

• Quickly establish friendly and productive relationships.

• Facilitate at the white-board, pitch on stage, or coach in the coffee shop.

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Key Career Experience

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• Acting Chief Executive Officer Role of Acting CEO during CEO’s three-month sabbatical. Began implementation of new strategic plan that addressed social and justice issues; ensured effective annual budget process; managed and led quarterly Board meeting; managed agency through a significant program and PR crisis.

• Chief Strategy Officer Developed long term vision, two 3-year strategic plans, and strategy execution approach for $350m non-profit, social services organization; drove alignment across new executive team which had recently formed due to significant organizational growth.

• Chief of Staff Completely rebuilt communications, marketing, and advancement departments for large non-profit organization. Personally led effort to increase brand awareness, develop strategic partnerships, and reestablish our donor base.

• Chief Operating Officer Built organization and developed appropriate structures and processes to support growth; collaborated closely with CEO and high-profile Board to identify and evaluate strategic options given turbulent market dynamics; managed eventual wind-down of the entity.

• Turnaround and Interim Management Reversed two-year revenue decline as Interim VP of Marketing for a distance education entity. Successfully completed a lagging brand transition, hired key personnel, spurred the growth of social media activity, introduced segmentation and retention concepts, and significantly increased the linkage between Admissions Center and Marketing to improve enrollments.

• Strategic and Operational Transformation Drove the reorganization of a $90m division of the NYC Public Schools to facilitate the devolution of funds to the school level; eliminated $3.6M from budget and transformed department from compliance based to customer and product focused.

• Entrepreneur/Co-Founder of Spotlight Performance – innovative start-up in the professional learning space. Instrumental in setting the strategic direction, managing sales and marketing, and handling all client management and delivery activities. Secured large-scale customers in multiple industries.