Maria Emanuel, Phd Email & Phone Number

Integrator with 20 years of experience fostering multistakeholder partnerships and cultivating innovation for research enterprises. A strong, collaborative leader who helps teams achieve goals through understanding stakeholder motivation, creating strategic roadmaps, utilizing clear communications, and optimizing operations. My passion is enabling partnerships to creatively impact real-world challenges with rigor and efficiency. Proven successful at cultivating relationships, establishing mutual goals, and defining and executing strategies and operations to achieve success. I leverage my scientific background, excellent interpersonal skills, a customer service-oriented philosophy, and strong communication and organization skills to collaborate with a wide range of people and drive individuals, teams, projects, and programs to enhance their impact and reach. Recent accomplishments include:• Managed interdisciplinary and collaborative research seed grant for intrainstitutional, interinstitutional, and public-private partnerships that yielded a 28X return on investment.• Planned partnering events to promote research collaborations, with 200+ attendees.• Supported over $40M in research proposals emphasizing interdisciplinary or convergence research, partnerships, innovation, or commercialization.Core competencies include:• Building and maintaining strategic partnerships• Outstanding communication skills including humble inquiry • Interpersonal skills• Program management• Project management and assessment• Research proposal management• Intellectual property• Commercialization• Technology transfer• Innovation• Entrepreneurship• Research ethics• Life sciences• Teaching• Training and mentoring• Research grant • Problem solving• Operational efficiencies• Business developmentSeeking opportunity to contribute to organizational success in mission delivery through strategic collaborations, respectful communications, and efficient operations. Please contact me through LinkedIn.