I offer expert advice on organizational design, go-to-market strategy, and navigating uncertainty. With deep knowledge of people and complex organizations, I craft tailored plans to drive and sustain success within clients’ unique environments.-Advise clients across various organizations, including the NBA, Accenture, Federal Express, NCAA, NGOs, entrepreneurs, lawyers, doctors, political/public relations professionals, and psychologists. My counsel includes assisting in defining their missions, objectives, and unique value propositions by creating multiple strategies to achieve their goals.-Partner with an entrepreneurial client to develop and design their business, resulting in 130x sales growth within 36 months. Through this partnership, we have created plans to efficiently and effectively scale the business to meet expanding market demands with minimal lead time and cost.-Guide entrepreneurs on the market challenges they must overcome to succeed, resulting in a partnership with a larger organization and successful entry into the market. As a new player with limited funds, creating a tangible impact and gaining attention was just as critical to achieving success as the effective implementation of plans.-Consult with a client on the early stages of their go-to-market strategy for a book in a specialized field of psychology. Utilizing the client's deep clinical knowledge and expertise, we developed an approach to appeal to the broadest audience possible and build a plan for scalable growth.-Provide political and policy analysis to decision-makers to inform their decisions, resulting in improved outcomes through them altering their approach and achieving better results.

Served as a trusted advisor to the third highest-ranking civilian official, guiding them and the office of over 100 policy and process experts, consultants, executive colleagues, and subordinates on various critical and high-priority matters.-Identified approximately $50 billion in savings for the Department of Defense through various cost containment and cutting solutions (ex. Category Management, Supply Chain, Logistics, etc.)-Shared impactful strategic advice and counsel on highly sensitive matters to the highest levels of government (including the Office of the Secretary, Senate and House Armed Services Committees, and the White House), supporting informed decision-making to achieve goals in complex and politically challenging environments.-Developed a strategic framework for transforming cost-saving exercises from a one-time approach to a cultural shift across the entire Department of Defense, identifying incentives and implementing a model that makes savings the norm rather than the exception. This approach aimed to create a sustainable culture of cost-saving across the DoD.

Built the initial organizational structure of the White House, maintaining solid relationships with staff as a trusted confidant and advisor. Through direction from the Office of the Chief of Staff, developed an understanding of processes and interactions between the White House and Departments and Agencies, streamlining and aligning efforts to improve collaboration and coordination across the entire Executive Branch of the United States Government.-Engaged directly with ~100 senior leaders, including Department Secretaries, Chiefs of Staff, and General Counsels of 20 Cabinet Departments, evaluating cross-functional lines of business across the executive branch resulting in a transformative approach for increasing efficiency and effectiveness.-Responsible for 85% of the White House budget (~$50M of $55M), completing each fiscal year under budget with surpluses of 5-10%.-Led strategy to increase effectiveness and value delivery of the Office of Cabinet Affairs, including increasing coordination across the Executive Office of the President, Cabinet, and non-cabinet -Departments and Agencies.-Collaborated with the Office of the Chief of Staff to develop initial staffing analysis and plans for all White House departments and offices, balancing manpower needs, budget limitations, and statutory requirements on compensation to execute organizational structure and design.-Supervised a diverse team of 10 in the strategic development of all processes and procedures for every aspect of incoming and outgoing White House Staff, including vetting, approving, onboarding, compensating, and promoting personnel, while delivering a culture of best-in-class service.-Led multiple high-level initiatives (founding the National Space Council, restructuring the White House Communications Department, etc.), providing recommendations to senior staff on improvements to re-align the organizations, increase partnership in areas, and increase efficiency and effectiveness.

Served on two Presidential Transition Teams (2012 and 2016) in developing recommendations to implement the potential President-Elect’s campaign commitments between election and inauguration, the critical 70+ days an Administration must ramp up operations.-Transformed ambitious campaign promises into actionable approaches for prioritization and implementation during the Presidential term across all Departments, Agencies, and the White House.-Synchronized with six teams of over 800 government and policy experts to develop and implement the project management plan for 100+ deliverables presented to the senior campaign team (future White House Chief of Staff and Senior Advisors) on Day One of the transition.

Management Consulting Firm. Transitioned from federal government to commercial consulting, supporting strategic transformation within the financial sector, leveraging the expertise of leadership engagement, strategic communications, and risk assessment and mitigation.-Impacted 250,000+ stakeholders through assessment, design, development, and implementation of a change management strategy for a high-priority, global transformation project serving a Top 4 US-based bank as a trusted advisor and partner to executives in multiple lines of business.-Created and implemented a change management and project management plan, delivering a risk assessment, change impact analysis, stakeholder assessment and segmentation, multi-vehicle training and communications strategy development and deployment, leadership engagement strategy, and a knowledge/capability transfer strategy while empowering and advising clients to navigate the unique structure and culture.-Contributed to developing and evolving methodologies and intellectual capital, including articles, whitepapers, and methodology guides; participated in business development efforts by identifying new opportunities and assisting with proposal responses and client outreach.

Management Consulting Firm. Progressively promoted through increasing impact and responsibility (supervising team members on several concurrent efforts) while serving Departments of Defense and Homeland Security clients as a trusted advisor for organizational transformation.-Led all stakeholder engagement efforts and served as deputy, managing a six-member organizational change management team dedicated to guiding the US Army’s adoption of a $1.67B comprehensive personnel and pay system poised to benefit one million+ users.-Led and worked with a cross-functional team from across the Army in a fast-paced, dynamic environment, translating complex and highly technical matters into clear, concise, and understandable messaging to relevant stakeholders, answering the question, “What’s in it for me?”, delivering excellent client service, including stakeholder management, meeting/workshop facilitation, project management, financial monitoring, and coaching/mentoring junior staff.-Designed, developed, and oversaw a worldwide 1,200+ member Change Agent Network of Army Soldiers and was responsible for providing input through feedback loops, sharing information with their units and commands, and increasing awareness and understanding across the entire Army.-Authored and released a stakeholder assessment sent to 26,000 Soldiers across the entire Army to benchmark and provide evidenced-based success metrics and information to identify stakeholder needs and optimize engagement.-Managed and guided teams through organization design methodologies and analytic tools to create options for clients for organization structure, decision authorities, job design, talent needs, and workforce analytics.

Collaborated with the Office of the Secretary of Homeland Security, the White House, and FEMA to implement the President’s politically sensitive Faith-Based and Community Initiative by engaging stakeholders across faith-based and disaster-relief and emergency preparedness community to partnership between Federal, State, and Local governments and the non-profits delivering direct impact aid to communities.

Assisted Federal Government clients (EPA, NPS, DoJ, DoEd) with policy, governance, enterprise architecture, and business process reengineering.