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Boston, Ma, Us

Kigali, Kigali, Rw

Reporting to the President, this position has overall strategic and operational responsibility for all Mason Korea programs. The role provides oversight for enrollment management, marketing and external relations. Responsible for implementing new initiatives, analyzing existing business operations and ensuring strategic process improvements. In addition, will support the President in establishing an advisory board and serving as Ex-Officio member.Finally, the role is tasked with cultivating and stewarding relationship with private and public constituents.

As a key member of the President’s executive team, the Special Assistant to the President manages strategic projects and creates select communications content for the President. This position plays a vital role in enabling the university’s new vision, mission and commitments.Specific duties include: developing and coordinating strategic institutional relationships; coordinating externally-focused strategic institutional projects; producing content for select presidential communications; and assisting the President with special meetings, events and travel. The Special Assistant acts as the Chief of Staff in the incumbent’s absence.

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

- Manage the strategic planning process and deployment of the institution’s vision to its global stakeholders.- Conduct primary and secondary research on best in class strategies for alumni relations. Create report and present recommendations to Board of Trustees- Support and organize the change management process of 3 presidents over 2 years including; transition communications, executive search committee and onboarding- Support resolution of complex institutional issues that are highly confidential and time sensitivePrepare and contribute to the creation of internal and external reports, briefings, presentations and responses on strategic and cost issues- Work closely with external constituents including C- Level Executives, government officials and Boards that the president participates in - Travel domestically and internationally with the President to attend meetings with government and business leaders to represent Thunderbird’s interest

Phoenix, Arizona, Us

- Established an in-house call center tasked with soliciting funds for different projects from alumni. Helped recruit and train 20 student employees to work in the center. Project exceeded 2010 annual goal by 16% by raising $236K vs. $200K- Conduct face to face client meetings domestically and internationally with constituents to solicit funding for diverse initiatives- Designed and deployed a client management rewards program called Thunderbird Flight Society focused on increasing alumni participation. This aided in an increase of alumni charitable donations from 10% to 15% by the end of the fiscal year- Teamed with 4 development officers to raise $65M in funds towards a capital campaign by marketing the various programs requiring funds to high net worth constituents. Team exceeded goal by June 2011.- Teamed with senior management and an outside agency to develop marketing collateral to be utilized by the development officers on our sales visits with constituents- Successfully managed multiple global events targeted at stewarding Thunderbird’s Board of Trustees, Global Council and alumni- Partnered with Thunderbird’s senior management to develop and execute a cultivation, recruitment and stewardship system for high net worth donors. This project has increased membership by 33% in the first year- Assisted the recruiting team in increasing the presence of its international population by hosting and managing outreach events globally to attract underrepresented populations to Thunderbird- Mentored students by creating actions plans to optimize their chances of success academically and professionally post graduation

London, Gb

- Led global organization-wide project focused on analyzing HSBC’s procurement process and vendor relationships in an effort to determine usage, streamline and standardize the process as well as decrease expenses. Project resulted in savings of $40M after review and analyses of over 150 global vendor contacts in the first year- Established relationships with senior executives across various business units to identify projects that led to expense reductions and increased operational efficiency- Created a project management handbook and conducted internal training sessions to ensure best practices were shared and implemented across the company

London, Gb

- Conducted Voice Of Customer and Talent Management analysis to benchmark and improve internal and external satisfaction ratings - Led cross-functional Six Sigma project to drive process improvements within HSBC’s Insurance claims process- Created and deployed training for Sales Portfolio Administrators on Quality/Six Sigma Methodology- Member of a team of six black belts responsible for ROI of $24m from various process improvement projects

San Ramon, Ca, Us

- Selected as part of global talent search to launch the inaugural Africa/Pakistan Management Program- Conducted consumer and brand analysis. Presented report to senior team which led to the creation of a task force focused on improving service delivery and operations- Led the change management process that transitioned over 300 downstream retailers from a company credit plan to a third party financial institution. This included negotiating credit terms and implementing technology upgrades estimated to increase downstream sales volume by 25%- Developed and deployed pilot training program for over 24 retailers and completed training with 100% satisfaction rating

Strategy And Finance (Dpg)

Senior Executive Fellow

Science Of Well-Being

Women'S Leadership Forum

Strategic Leadership (Wlf)

Organizational Leadership

Global Leadership & Change Management

Oil And Gas Strategy & Management

Dba In Global Leadership & Sustainability (Honoris Causa)

Mba In Intl. Management, Finance And Marketing

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Economics. International Business & Communications