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San Francisco, CA, US

San Francisco, CA, US

Newton, MA, US

• Serve as board director for a national non-profit that creates videos, podcasts, and other content to support 4,000+ families caring for children with serious illness. Member of executive and organizational development.

• Dating app startup: Serve as fractional Strategy & Operations Lead, assisting co-founders with special projects (e.g., market research, preparation for product launch). Crafted pitch materials to support a $2M.
• E-commerce SaaS company: Developed pitch materials enabling co-founders to raise $1M in pre-seed venture funding. Co-wrote initial business plan and advised founding team on pitch delivery.

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• Partnered with client executives to improve their organizations’ culture, capabilities, and financial performance.
• Led strategy and operations for McKinsey Academy, scaling the Firm’s skill-building arm from ~15 clients to 100+ over two years. Developed OKRs, implemented sales tracking tools, and led onboarding efforts to support.
• Promoted to Engagement Manager in July 2020 (before enrollment in business school), a promotion usually reserved for post-MBA consultants.Recent team management experience:
• Created Ability to Execute (A2E) Essentials, a skill-building product that helps embed 15 leadership fundamentals (e.g., coaching, running effective meetings) in organizations. Managed cross-functional team of 19.
• Led a team of 5 that developed A2E Business Fundamentals, an in-person and digital learning program equipping executives with knowledge of core business functions (e.g., strategy, finance) and helping improve.
• Assessed the Organizational Health of a global industrials company with >100k employees, preparing senior leaders to work more effectively in a matrixed structure.

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Stanford, CA, US

• Arbuckle Leadership Fellow. Selected for year-long program cultivating facilitation and coaching skills. Co-taught Stanford’s introductory leadership skills class and conducted bi-weekly coaching sessions with three.
• Coursework focused on building, scaling, and managing new ventures, especially in education and healthcare.
• Teaching assistant for Longevity, a course exploring opportunities for entrepreneurs to better serve aging populations.

South San Francisco, California, US

• Designed a 90-day new hire onboarding program for this ~180-person, high-growth drug discovery company. Strategic initiative strengthened managers’ capabilities and prepared the organization to double its workforce.
• Procured a learning management system (LMS) to support employee development, evaluating vendors through a rigorous request-for-proposal (RFP) process and codifying it for broader organizational use.

• Researched the impact of professionalization and human rights rhetoric on mobilization in Mexico’s LGBT rights movement.
• Conducted interviews with LGBT rights activists in Mexico City in July and August 2016.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

• Advised eight freshmen navigating academic, extracurricular, and social opportunities
• Coordinated weekly events to build community in freshman dormitories

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• Built model to perform quantitative analyses on an academic medical center’s workforce.
• Led interviews with administrative leaders to diagnose organizational challenges.
• Helped craft recommendations to restructure human resources operations.

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• Analyzed the impact of automation on retail and healthcare for the McKinsey Global Institute report “A Future That Works: Automation, Employment, and Productivity.”

Master Of Business Administration (Mba)

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Social Studies, Global Health And Health Policy

High School Diploma