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With over 35 years of experience as a CEO, I specialize in executive and business coaching for Investor, Private Equity, Venture, and Family Office backed CEOs and their leadership teams. My career journey has taught me what propels teams and companies to excel in the high-stakes, fast-paced world of investor-backed businesses. From shaping teams to navigating intricate financial landscapes to cultivating leadership skills, I possess a nuanced grasp of driving vision and strategy that delivers tangible results. I’m known for challenging norms, fostering innovation, and adeptly navigating complexity, I’m an experienced partner that’s seen it all.In the realm of investor-backed ventures, where financial and operational acumen is pivotal, the human aspect often takes a backseat. I've witnessed firsthand how the transition accompanying investment introduces a myriad of leadership hurdles that, if unaddressed, can impede value creation.My coaching style? It's all about focusing on results by bringing everyone onboard, building trust, and ramping up communication – across all stakeholders. By teaming up with management from day one, I set the stage for collaboration that's key to achieving growth.And, I advocate extending coaching beyond individual CEOs to encompass management teams as a whole. By fostering collaboration and ongoing dialogue, we cultivate a culture of cohesion and mutual support critical for sustained success.

Co-founder of a private activist investment fund determined to prove that female CEOs deliver outsized financial returns. Collaborate with a group of senior executive women, many CEOs, with both a passion and a vested interest in proving the value of female leadership. The Norma Fund has gained 169% since inception, posting annual weighted returns of 10.27%. We have also bested our own equally weighted index, as well as most of the industry benchmarks over these 10 years.

New York, Ny, Us

Teach and mentor students in how teamwork, collaboration, and problem solving can turbo charge their careers.

New York, Ny, Us

Led the turnaround of a global healthcare advertising agency network. Developed and executed a plan to identify, preserve, and enhance a viable business through making swift and difficult decisions and focusing on cash controls, protecting asset values, developing meaningful measurement tools, holding people accountable, long-term planning, and rebuilding relationships with clients and employees. CDM is now on course to be a data and analytics driven agency through smart financial and strategic decision making, recruitment of new leadership team, and restoration of people’s confidence in themselves and in one another. Developed plan for CDM to merge with digital first sister agency in order to maximize synergies and ensure long-term stability and growth.

New York, Ny, Us

Lead dedicated team of global client leaders who work across Omnicom’s healthcare agencies to distill market and business challenges and unlock cross-enterprise solutions for Omnicom's largest healthcare clients, resulting in 20% year over year growth. Complex P&L management across several companies working on the same client required the ability to solve problems and react quickly to changing market forces.

New York, Ny, Us

Re-founded TBWA\WorldHealth by bringing together four under-performing Omnicom Healthcare advertising agencies and creating a strong brand through vision, partnership, and courage. Within 4 years the agency expanded to 12 offices globally, increased revenue by 400%, and in 2019 was chosen by Medical Advertising News as “Agency of the Year” in recognition of rapid growth. Serve on the management committee of parent agency, TBWA.

Board member for a private equity funded company that transformed from a small online publisher to an analytics-driven, digital first customer data and insight leader. Rapid performance improvement and value creation led to a lucrative sale.

New York, New York, Us

New York, Ny, Us

Drove top-and bottom-line growth of Omnicom's global healthcare practice by assessing strategic options, building management consensus, clarifying roles and responsibilities, and leading cross-discipline teams.

Fairfield, New Jersey, Us

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Fairfield, New Jersey, Us

Certification, Executive Coaching

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, English Language And Literature/Letters

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