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• Design and led AI literacy and national upskilling programs and strategic roadmaps, collaborating with governments and private organizations to create equitable workforce strategies.• Partnered with leadership teams to integrate AI-driven innovation into organizational frameworks, fostering resilience and adaptability in dynamic industries.• Delivered executive coaching focused on neuroscience-backed leadership, enabling teams to thrive in high-stakes environments.

Traveling to Botswana and living on the land as well as experiencing the culture of our first people’s, my ongoing volunteer role is to help raise awareness of, and promote indigenous learnings from, the Kalahari bushmen regarding culture, community, and sustainable lifestyles for the modern world through fundraising, writing, and target marketing.

Working with CEOs and Leadership teams around the world, I coach on the neuroscience behind flow states, human behavior, and optimal peak performance toward building a unified and productive culture.

As the Culture Program Manager, my role was to lead the execution of the mission and strategy for driving meaningful culture change in a large engineering organization of over 20,000 people. By running experiments and scaling strategic organizational initiatives across planning, engineering systems, customer feedback, and more – I helped enable the Azure organization to experience the Microsoft Culture attributes of growth mindset, customer obsessed, diverse & inclusive, one Microsoft, and making a difference. At the center of Microsoft’s cloud strategy, my position played a vital part in how Microsoft traverses the maturity curve in building out our cloud environment telemetry ecosystem as an AI Ops case study. This effort, required working across many organizations across the Azure stack and Data Center Operations organizations. It was also a pilot experiment on running large projects in a more federated “one Microsoft” manner - apply machine learning and advanced technology innovations, all in concert to help Microsoft be the cloud leader.

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Working with political, religious, and academic leaders as well as youth, a delegation of women empowerment members, and more—I designed and delivered multiple workshops based on community and social change, leadership development, and project management in several towns and rural areas across West Africa.

Learning to cultivate self-trust, responsibility, and understanding about ones' unique place within society and the natural world through programs providing perspectives, teachings, and much needed self-reflection time in a non-judgmental yet challenging environment through the processes of inter-dependent autonomy inherent in living systems. By fostering attentive listening, authentic expression, and creative spontaneity, Council practice builds positive relationships between participants and neutralizes hierarchical dynamics fostered by inequality of status, race, economic stature or other social factors.

Cultivating self-trust, responsibility, and understanding about ones' unique place within the world through nature based connection and ceremony. This practice builds positive relationships and neutralizes hierarchical dynamics fostered by inequality of race, economic stature or other social factors. http://www.ojaifoundation.org/news/midlife-passage

Competitively selected for world leading symposium on peace & security conflict management, negotiation, and resolution. A summer long intensive training by the field’s premier political leaders, academic experts, practitioners, and advocates in the practical skills necessary to foster peace and security in our communities and the world.

Responsible for building a high performing, Lean IT organization delivering over $120M in supply chain capabilities annually. Drove organizational planning and implementation of agile manufacturing & supply chain IT systems processes and services. Was the senior information officer responsible for business intelligence, knowledge information management, training, corporate compliance, infrastructure development & security, and partner integration, as well as the executive lead for building out enterprise supply chain capabilities. Responsible for the assessment, design, development, and implementation of a yearlong series of learning solution workshops for 50 middle management leaders enabling them to learn how to effectively run their business, people, & processes day-to-day, freeing the senior leadership team to focus on strategy. In this role, I was a manager of managers with an organization of up to approximately 30 people.

Responsible for strategic planning and development of organizational and operational effectiveness. I was responsible for creating, communicating, and delivering learning workshops based on building a strategic culture aligned towards delivering on future goals and directives. Responsibilities included working with executive staff to define strategy and planning for future management initiatives and program reviews in support of as well as managing and leading the PMO team. As a side project for strategy development, I led a virtual team of senior leaders to define next generation mobile business applications from which came requirements for future technology design.• Led the process to define technology platform future strategy - including vision, strategy, goals, scorecard, and culture • Led the initiative to identify industry trends and design disruptive market solutions aligned to vision• Guided selection of project initiatives; include defining target markets, customers, competitive strengths, & strategy• As the scenario owner for a major Windows8 objective, I directed the work of teams across the company to ensure a coordinated and cohesive software development kit for developers worldwide • Oversaw the business and manpower management of team, drove annual planning cycles, advised leadership team on the effectiveness and efficiency of the performance of programs• Responsible for partnering with HR on organization workforce planning, hiring, evaluations, management-employee relations, performance reviews, rhythm of the business calendar as well as was the information officer responsible for all communications for the organization.

Responsible to manage and lead the organizational process and project management of new technology innovation in a startup culture of operational effectiveness and agility, including necessary learning and coaching opportunities. Managed the program management team responsible for defining feature requirements and collaborating on design, manpower, and implementation. Project ended up being cancelled and my role transition to facilitating the deployment of technology learnings and human assets throughout the company. In this role I was a manager with an organization of approximately 20 people.• Responsible for designing organizational and project process of incubation initiative into product development• Designed and delivered scoping and decision-making framework for product design• Drove key partnerships with other executives and their teams across Microsoft such as Windows, Office, and more.• Selected to develop & deliver curriculum on the art of project management with agility & predictability Engineering Excellence day event for Microsoft employees to learn agile methods for product planning and implementation• Received a gold star for “work above and beyond, with extreme effort, on a special project, delivering great results”

Responsible for organizational process strategy and management of strategic planning for the project and release management of Windows7. Role included responsibilities for leading leadership team meetings, building a strong culture of engineering excellence, and providing corporate communication around project status. I was responsible for the community (beta) response team and to increase insight into customer feedback. In this role, I was a manager of managers with an organization of up to approximately 60 people. I was also responsible for creating and delivering project post-mortem learnings with the executive staff to design and deliver workshops of continuing education in support of furthering our strategic goals and objectives for Windows8.• Guided the strategic planning development and implementation of Windows7 release, providing project status and communication for the entire organization. • Led executive leadership team meetings, advising management on the effectiveness and efficiency of programs performance, including challenges, issues, opportunities and other alignment communication as needed.• Managed evaluation, selection, and acquisition of various technology solutions for future program requirements. • Responsible for building a knowledge information management system and online training platform for entire division.• Supervised new outsourcing initiative to China, saving $500M and providing 24/7 triage for corporate customers.• Oversaw largest corporate program pre-release ever (8M downloads) and implemented new technology processes to enable more efficient and agile deployments for all future management initiatives.• Guided the research, evaluation, and implementation of business processes and technology services in support of achieving successful outcomes aligned towards leadership goals and objectives.• Won an “Engineering Leadership” award from Windows President• Recognized as an “Excellence Accelerator” award.

Responsible to lead the design and implementation of a unique opportunity to re-engineer organizational processes and project management agility for a 2,500 person manpower team. The initiative was designed to be top-down in vision and bottom-up in definition, stopping all product development for 4 months to redesign organization operational effectiveness towards becoming a high performing, agile organization. Effort was so transformational I won the corporate “engineering excellence” award. Following this my role was to lead the project management and release effort of the next project lifecycle. In this role I was a manager with an organization of up to approximately 15 people.• Redesigned and simplified organizational system processes and metrics, enabling multi-organization teams across many functions to receive timely, iterative project performance feedback. • Through education and team coaching employee work estimating variance was reduced from 150-500% over to within 10-35% over one product lifecycle (9 months).• Won corporate “engineering excellence” award • Led the project process design and project management of $2-billion-dollar product line, 2,500+ person project release. Project was released within 10% original schedule and with a reduction of 40,000 defects over prior releases and increased customer satisfaction (NSAT) over 10%.• Awarded “Captains Leadership Award” for Leadership from VP• Won “Engineering Excellence” award from Bill Gates for my efforts building this higher performing organization• Recognized by People & Organizational Talent team for “going above and beyond the call of duty to advance Management Excellence at Microsoft”

Learning to conserve wildlife and bush ecosystems, study biodiversity, and help maintain the reserves of the Limpopo River bush lands.

As the only software team coach ever as a full time employee for Microsoft, I was responsible to build and guide high performing technology leadership teams through training and workshop development. With my role to increase employee productivity, we saw over 300% increases in output across four different product teams. I was asked to provide time and productivity studies of organizational effectiveness across many product groups as well as present my findings to Bill Gates. • Coached & built high performing teams, increasing manpower productivity over 300% across different product groups• Program managed the design, development, and corporate rollout of a new corporate policy compliance tool• Provided time and productivity studies across many product groups to leaders, presented findings to Executives • Delivered software team process coaching & training

Program managed many IT projects and SAP implementations, including:• The deployment of a new corporate release services tool which enabled OEM’s worldwide to access product online, saving millions every year in spending by avoiding physical fulfillment of product while increasing customer satisfaction and response time.• Responsible for worldwide training and education on new SAP (HR module) platform• Program managed extending product delivery technology tools in support of new products lines and channels • Program Managed new people reporting tool (first ever), got noted in Bill Gates’s book Business at the speed of thought.• Program Managed and Configured the SAP implementation of HR module, bringing together all Microsoft people management to one platform worldwide, to be able to extend HR support and tooling for all.• Drove the as-is to to-be data modeling for the configuration & implementation of SAP (new platform)