Took on an expanded strategic role for the Chief Communications Officer (CCO) – serving as Chief of Staff / Director of Strategy while continuing to lead financial and business operations. Oversaw business operations planning and execution across the entire Corporate Affairs / Communications organization. Identified and delivered a portfolio of strategic initiatives, deployed operational budgets, optimized processes and conducted business performance reviews. Served as lead for the annual strategic planning process. Managed a team of 11 across the US, Mexico and the UK. • Identified $50M in annual savings by developing an end-to-end analysis and business case for digitally transforming HP’s events capability. • Consistently ranked in the top 10% of leaders with the highest team engagement scores.• Shortlisted KPIs – achieving 40% reduction by orchestrating a performance measurement transformation, and implemented real-time analytics for optimizing investments across paid, earned, shared & owned media. • Built a diverse candidate internship program that supported HP’s goal to become an employer of choice for underrepresented groups. • Led organizational alignment efforts for an acquisition. Rationalized vendors and tools, took on $50M in new program budgets and aligned to financial hierarchy.

Pivoted to the newly formed Global Communications & Events organization to oversee planning and development and manage financial operating and labor budgets totaling $100M. Built a global team of 11 direct-report budget analysts who supported a ~120-member organization. Created standard operating procedures aligned to corporate processes, and implemented planning, operating and reporting cadences across the entire organization.• Boosted fiscal year exit forecast accuracy from 75% to 99% and achieved 98% budget utilization; achieved by introducing a rigorous management cadence and exception-based operational reporting in key expense areas. • Pioneered a “virtual Chief of Staff’ model, providing an incremental $2M of investment capacity by increasing use of self-service tools and automated workflows and decreasing administrative support staff.• Gained five additional days per quarter of budgetary spending capability for teams by implementing a new budget hierarchy and automating workflows.

Successfully led global marketing financial planning, delivering a $240M combined budget across all geographies and marketing business units. Also introduced a wide range of program solutions designed to increase marketing effectiveness and efficiency, in addition to taking on Chief of Staff responsibilities for the CMO.• Generated $60M in new investment capacity by strategically restructuring Marketing Operations, eliminating overlaps, streamlining reporting structures and delivering improved operating level agreements.• Redesigned the annual financial planning process in partnership with multiple internal stakeholders for use by all corporate, business unit and regional marketing teams, resulting in streamlined bottom-up plan revisions, consistency in classification of marketing spend and shared understanding of annual plan contents across the stakeholder groups.• Recognized with the “HP Reinventor” award for efforts in introducing process improvements and operational efficiencies across the marketing function.

Joined HP’s global marketing and talent engagement team, accountable for employee demographics, engagement analytics and the programs that tracked, developed and advanced marketing’s ability to deliver against commitments. Quickly shifted to take on a new directive, owning the business effort and analysis for centralizing the marketing function and reducing the number of employees from 8K to 3K.• Developed a high-impact human capital strategy and defined the initiatives that enabled the strategy to unfold over a three-year period.• Delivered $100M in savings and efficiencies over two years, spearheading the transformation of HP’s marketing resource management through initiatives in process optimization, technology and tools integrations and resource allocation.

Worked with global consulting clients of this professional services / consulting organization in delivering wide-range strategic solutions for change management, training, business process design and project management. Delivered transformational results in the areas of organizational design, workforce planning and talent recruitment. Hired, led and developed global project teams of up to 15. Selected Client Achievements:• Delivered $150M in business benefits by identifying critical gaps in capital budgeting processes and defining management incentive program payout targets for a financial services provider.• Identified $60M in cost reductions after conducting a full-scale organization capability assessment that led to rebalancing staffing ratios, reallocating workforce mixes and simplifying operational procedures for a financial software developer.• Boosted a retail client’s bottom-line margin by $7M after delivering a training program on procedural improvements to 9K store associates across 3.6K stores in just six weeks.• Architected a three-year, multi-country change management system for an SAP Retail / Oracle ERP implementation that supported an international expansion into three new markets for a home improvement retailer.• Awarded Accenture’s “People Developer” award for inspiring leadership, one of the organization’s highest internal honors.