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• Expert on strategy, policy, and execution within systems of networked governance. • More than 25 years of advising decision makers and leading strategic operations to transform organizations and communities so they can prosper in times of dramatic change. Areas of past engagement: workforce development; building innovative and inclusive regional economic ecosystems; economic transformation; recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic; recovery from the Great Recession; redevelopment after Hurricanes Katrina, Sandy, Irene, Isabel, Floyd, & Hugo; redevelopment of Lower Manhattan and the World Trade Center site after 9/11; rebuilding Berlin after German reunification. Areas of special substantive expertise: alignment of education and training systems with opportunities in the emerging economy; inclusive and resilient economic ecosystems; technology and economic transformation; transformational placemaking; U.S. economic relations with Germany, the U.K., and the European Union.Areas of organizational expertise: program execution; strategy development; consensus building among diverse stakeholders; tracking the execution of strategic plans using metrics, milestones, and targets; building inclusive teams.