Lori is an extroverted, client centric leader with 15+ years of solid project management, continuous improvement and organizational change experience, preceded by several years of financial and management engagements. She is passionate about building high performance teams and infrastructures with a commitment to operational excellence, scalable growth and customer experience.Lori is intimately knowledgeable of global markets and adaptable to changing conditions and cultures. With a proven track record of successfully managing sales, operations and compliance programs while balancing technology requirements with bottom-line impact.Lori brings a unique mix of consulting, coaching and leadership experience to organizations, with exposure to both public and private sectors. As a transformation expert and coach, she has successfully led major change initiatives in industries both domestically and internationally. As a practitioner, she has a proven success record in managing global projects with budgets of over $20M+, in addition to delivering millions of dollars in operational savings and new revenue. She has helped several organizations establish process management and continuous improvement practices. Bembanaste is often called upon to facilitate negotiations and group workshops involving senior leaders.Bembanaste has experience implementing a broad array of management methodologies; however, she has a track record of delivering results regardless of tools, methodologies and organizational constraints due to her focus on people and outcomes.On her journey towards project and process excellence, Bembanaste has become particularly passionate about tier 1 technologies that disrupt a wide array of sectors. Technologies that bring her to the global stage where she pairs governments, private and public sectors with these industry disrupting technologies to include, but not limited to, agriculture, power generation, waste to energy, sensors and more.Core Competencies include: International Business, Start ups and Restructuring, Project Management, Financial Services Solutions, Payment Processing, Strategic Planning and Growth, Business Development and Strategic Alliances, Consultative Sales and Operations Analysis, New Market Entry, Sustainability and more.