Elisa Basnight Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc, Us

Lexington, Sc, Us

Baltimore, Md, Us

StrategyServ was founded in 2018 recognizing the greatness and challenges in all organizations center around people. Whether it is innovation in workforce development, supply chain or skilled trades, the people touchpoints are what StrategyServ focuses on to get your organization where it wants to go. At the core of its services is the goal to provide bold new strategies and solutions that catalyze transformative results and operational excellence across all ends of the enterprise; while promoting the betterment of the 4 C’s - citizens, communities, corporations, and countries.September 2023 - PresentHead of Supply Chain Innovation & Workforce DevelopmentPart-Time2018 - 2019Executive Vice President, Chief Strategy Officer

Washington, Dc, Us

In 2019, Elisa, was named SVP, Supply Chain, Biomed, to start-up and lead a newly integrated Red Cross Supply Chain function of a $2B business. Reporting to the President, with 5 VP directs, Elisa has P&L responsibility and serves with 2,250 team members and volunteers that manufacture, quality control & test, warehouse, kit and operate indirect logistics for 40% of the US blood supply serving 2,500 hospital customers approximately 6.4 million products to patients annually. Her union/non-union team operates in an FDA-regulated industry 23 manufacturing sites, 1 Plasma Sort Facility, equipment management, enterprise warehouse operations (18 warehouses and 5 Disaster Field Supply Centers), kitting operations (17 sites) laboratory services (55 Lab sites) and Supply Chain Excellence throughout the USA and PR. Supply Chain Digital: 2021 Top 100 Leader & 2022 & 2023 Top 100 Women Leader. To learn more about the great work the men, women and volunteers provide, visit www.redcross.org.

New York, Ny, Us

★ Provide direction, leadership and management to the Operations, Field, Provider Network and Medical Management teams with direct reporting relationships comprised of Vice Presidents for Veterans Programs, responsible for the P&L end-to-end (E2E) managed care organization of a $4B Department of Veterans Affairs’ (VA) federal contract portfolio with 1400 - 2000 personnel encompassing all or portions of 37 states, plus the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands for 5 million eligible veterans.★ P&L responsibility including service delivery, productivity, employee engagement, executive customer relationships including C-level leadership at customer sites, strategic planning, and other associated responsibilities.★ Pioneer a data driven transformation focused on operational excellence, the customer experience and quality utilizing Kaizen principles that in first 90-days of turnaround, initiated and reduced 332 backlogged U.S. Congressional Members complaints to zero and maintained. ★ In first six months, lead design-thinking strategy and implementation, improving Provider wait times and customer relations to drive timeliness on A/R cash flow and 78% decrease in abandoned Provider calls. ★ Ensured achievement of the 2017 Annual Operating Plan, turning around a $30M operating loss into a $7M pick-up over 3rd QTR when customer volume levels decreased by 50%. ★ Routinely interact with Congressional members and senior government officials, NGOs, and diverse groups of policy experts and veterans service organizations, healthcare, corporate and community leaders.

Presidential appointment to Chief of Staff of the United States Mint in January 2016. The United States Mint is the world’s largest manufacturer of coins and medals. It operates globally alongside leading online retailers and ranks among the most technologically advanced enterprises in the country. The Mint is an approximate $3.6 billion (FY 2016) annual revenue manufacturing enterprise, encompassing 6 facilities located in the United States. ★ Direct management for 5 of organization’s 11 functions, led 37 direct reports and up to 1700 indirect reports. ★ Pivotal leader in 5-year strategic plan and coin manufacturing end-to-end process transformation, championing the transformation of brand identity and customer experience to drive public awareness and new sales. ★ Led and oversaw 225th Anniversary Campaign, product development and launch of historical 1st African-American Lady Liberty coin, realizing $3M earned media value (national and local) with a 374:1 ROI. Led product development and launch of President Obama medals.★ Improved processing function, resulting in a 17% plummet in document turnaround. ★Led transformation of EEO & Diversity division from de-centralized to centralized corporate business process. Oversight of new Mint-wide targeted disability hiring practice, resulting in new partnerships and exceeded hiring goals (43% Veterans New Hires and 24% Disabled New Hires). ★ Led transformation efforts of National Collaborative Council with Labor Union leaders & EIC.★ Innovative use of product advertising catapulted revenue by $24M with a 25:1 ROI. Mint is currently ranked number one on Google for “coin” searches.★ Oversaw Mint’s two groundbreaking design competitions for 2018 commemorative program products involving an enterprise matrixed team and creating an “artists’ portal,” resulting in increased efficiency, administration and visibility with the public and diverse artist community. Over $500 million to recipient organizations since 1982.

Presidential appointment to lead the VA’s Center for Women’s Veterans (CWV), providing executive direction and oversight of VA’s administration of healthcare, benefits services, and programs for over 2M U.S. women veterans. Principal executive responsible for directing the day-to-day operations of the CWV, managing its staff, as well as overseeing its budget and the drafting of its annual statements. Principal advisor to the Secretary of the Department of Veterans Affairs. Responsible for expanding CWV’s capacity and assuring the organization’s long-term sustainability. Routinely interacted with policymakers, federal, state and local government officials, NGOs, and diverse groups of policy experts and veterans service organizations & community leaders.★ Directed innovative strategic transformation plan, aligning legal requirements, research and task force findings to enhance services to over 2M customers and diminish deficient performance scores by 83%. ★ Shrunk problem inquiry resolution time by 40% while boosting overall capacity by 10%. ★ Guided 5-city Veterans’ summit, expanding participant engagement by 114%, while realizing an 86% cost savings over previous 1 city event. ★ Increased collaborative “Meet and Greets” and strategic partnerships by 525% with White House, US Senate and House leadership, and public-private organizations. Led innovation of a new Federal Inter-Agency Women Veterans Working Group.★ Successfully resolved 23 Congressional improvement recommendations left stagnant for years.★ As Co-Vice-Chair of nationwide charitable campaign, spearheaded efforts to raise $655K.★ Served as an ex-officio member on the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services (DACOWITS) and also served as the Department’s representative on the White House Council on Women and Girls and chaired the inter-agency Women Veterans Working Group. ★ As a well-known public speaker, has presented to thousands on a variety of business, government and legal topics.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Us

Member of Corporate Finance team. Provided analysis and counsel on legal, commercial, and policy issues to small, mid-size and multinational companies on issues relating to: corporate structuring, commercial terms and conditions, supply chain, procurement agreements, supplier diversity, healthcare, compliance, government affairs and business strategic planning. Participated in firm management decisions on Strategic Planning, Diversity and Recruiting Committees. ★ 2012 – 2013: Seconded in-house commercial counsel to Motorola Mobility HOME, a $12.5 billion-dollar company, focused on negotiation of backlogged contracts and transformation of legal operations/procurement processes. o Negotiated and advised on over 100 matters related to complex next-generation commercial procurement agreements, RFP processes, manufacturing agreements, warranty and repair, development agreements, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) compliance and other related agreements during Google’s divestiture of Motorola’s Motorola Mobility – Home and its acquisition by ARRIS in 2013. o Led in the design, documentation, development, and deployment of re-engineered processes, training and the supporting information systems of business processes and supplier negotiations.★ 2010 – 2012: Seconded in-house Assistant General Counsel - Indirect Supply Chain to Arkema Americas. o Negotiated over 100 procurement commercial vendor contracts with major multinational corporations as lead counsel for the French multinational chemical corporation’s five (5) new acquired plants. o Led enterprise initiative to develop and implement new procurement terms and conditions templates for plant services, indirect purchases, environmental engineering and consulting, engineering services and medical services that decreased negotiations time and improved quality across plants and capital projects. o Worked collaboratively with company business leaders, risk management and company lawyers and SMEs.

New York, Ny, Us

Practice focus: mergers, acquisitions, aircraft finance, private equity, capital markets and financing transactions and corporate governance. Responsible for and involved with negotiated transaction documents ranging from $1.5 million to $3 billion and led design of transformative business tools and solutions for clients. Presented to various audiences on aviation financing, due diligence, nonprofits, intellectual property and privacy. Participated in firm management decisions on Recruiting Committee and Pro Bono Committee.

Newark, New Jersey, Us

Led complex, large scale process improvement and transformation projects in areas of HR & IT; and applied appropriate improvement tools and methodologies to meet business objectives and ensure long-term improvement. Led innovative redeployment project to support the 60,000-workforce and save company $3.5M during period of demutualization to IPO.

B.S., French/Systems Engineering

Mpa/Mc

J.D., Law

Master’S Degree, International Relations And Affairs

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