Provide forward-thinking leadership to consulting projects with a focus on improving educational lives of children in public schools systems throughout the country. Responsible for leadership of organizational consulting work with school district partners. Work with ERS leadership to make decisions and build organizational culture to fulfill the mission, vision, and anti-racism commitments.• Serve as project lead for several large urban school district partners• Supervise, manage, and develop managers to ensure strong functioning of project teams including the coaching, professional development, and mentorship of staff• Develop, sustain, and enhance relationship with senior executives, funders, and other leaders in the field• Advise and provide executive coaching to senior executive school district leaders on various leadership topics

I orchestrate transformational change in the Atlanta Public Schools (APS) through partnership with internal and external stakeholders. Moreover, I developed a methodology and training to build and implement enterprise change management capabilities for district-wide projects and initiatives.• Designed and implemented the 2015-2020 and the 2020-2025 district strategic plan that articulates system goals and priorities.• Developed and implemented comprehensive business plan for new operating model that was approved by local and state school boards.• Prepared and delivered 20+ school board work session presentations and workshops• Planned and led 50+ community meetings throughout tenure to increase community engagement.• Boosted overall employee engagement from fifth percentile to 64th percentile as benchmarked in national Gallup K-12 database.• Developed change frameworks and tools for programs including training, resource plans, risk analysis, and key metrics

At North Highland, I directed client projects in both public and private sectors across multiple industries, service areas, and functions. Moreover, I spearheaded change management initiatives including business outsourcing, mergers & acquisitions, and business transformation. • Owned HR transformation project at large urban school district.• Transformed and aligned division with business goals in collaboration with leadership team.• Implemented 360 leadership surveys and self-development areas to target organizational needs.

In this position, I directed multiple medium to large-scale systemic change initiatives from end to end with ownership of requirements gathering, action planning, stakeholder engagement, and change management. I identified performance gaps and formulated recommendations. • Secured and implemented $10M grant for Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and $39M federal funding for district talent management initiative.• Led work and developed plans for $25M Race to the Top initiative to implement comprehensive education reform.• Redesigned core system processes to drive organizational change across 90 sites.• Developed processes to monitor all strategic initiatives to ensure consistent and timely delivery of complex projects.

Consulted with Fortune 500 clients to provide solutions to a broad range of operational challenges, including system integration and enterprise solutions in multiple industries. Provided full life cycle project management and held accountable for scope, project plan, solutions development, milestone tracking, project coordination, and delivery / implementation. Interfaced with client stakeholders, vendors and business users to elicit business needs and prioritize requirements. Communicated with executive leadership; managed customer relationships and reported status / issues. Developed and delivered custom business solutions.