Provides strategic leadership, technical, and programmatic oversight of Bean Group Global (BGG), a management consulting firm with clients that include USAID, the United Nations, and other donors and implementing partners. Leads a team of core staff and a vast network of local and international consultant facilitators, instructional designers, trainers, monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL), collaborating, learning, and adapting (CLA), and organizational development specialists. Manages relationships with donor clients and sets strategic direction for new business and portfolio expansion. Serves as the primary point-of-contact and authorized negotiator for portfolio-level engagements with client stakeholders that include USAID, United Nations, Open Development, Save the Children, Chemonics, and others. Oversees the development and implementation of data-driven adult learning programs that enhance global leadership competencies and strengthen individual, organizational, and system capacity. Provides technical advisory, facilitation, and coaching support at the project-level, serving as technical, program management, and/or key personnel across a variety of USAID- UN- and other donor-funded projects, summarized below:- Lead Instructional Designer, Facilitator, USAID/Sri Lanka and Maldives Leadership Training Program (2023).- Executive Coach, USAID/Southern Africa Executive Coaching Services (2022 – 2023).- Lead Instructional Designer and Facilitator, USAID/RDMA Learning and Skill Building Programs (2022-2023).- Lead Facilitator, USAID/AFR/SD/CPG CVE Knowledge Management Activity (2022)- Lead Instructional Designer, Facilitator, Coach, USAID/West Africa Human Resources for Health in 2030 Program (2021 – 2022)- Lead CLA Advisor, USAID/Philippines CLAim Health & CLAimDev Activities (2020-2021)- MEL Advisor, INL/Morocco Correctional Systems Needs Assessment (2019).

Responsible for 30% of revenue for this 100-employee organization focusing on customized services in organizational/leadership development, technical assistance, and evaluation. Specialized in governance, blended learning strategy and managing remote teams, systems improvement, leadership, and performance improvement. 70% U.S. based and 30% field based. Reported to the President. Designed, delivered, and evaluated blended learning for management and leadership programs. Courses included Manager’s Certification Program, Supervisor’s Certification Course, Working Across Cultures, Mentoring Connections, and Foreign and Civil Servant Onboarding programs for 700 foreign and civil service employees annually. Led the development of USAID’s Gender Learning Strategy to operationalize policy, develop competencies, and improve coordination across all sectors. Authored the award-winning case study “Walking the Walk: Building Internal Capacity for Performance Improvement”, for USAID’s agency-wide Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) competition. Served in a variety of technical roles for various projects across Encompass’ learning portfolio. Managed the USAID/HCTM World-Wide Training (WWT) and Training and Facilitation Contract (T&F), two of USAID’s largest multimillion-dollar training contracts at the time.

Served as a field-based project leader for this private international development company with over 2,500 employees in 90 countries and $500M in revenue. Reported to the Vice President and Regional Managing Director. Designed and managed a strategic innovation project in civil-military operations training entitled the Trans-Sahara Security Symposium (TSS); the project focused on interagency collaboration in dealing with counter-extremism and radicalization and was structured around the political-economic-security conflict assessment framework. Served as primary interlocutor with AFRICOM, bilateral and multilateral institutions, government and civil society, supervising a team of ten project staff; provided leadership, training, and expert support. Provided train-the-trainer and cross-cultural support; achieved highly rated scores in meeting the diverse needs of audiences from Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Chad, Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, and Niger

Clients included PAE, USAID, the American Refugee Committee, Lutheran World Service, and the Department of the Navy. Designed an anti-corruption curriculum for host country civilian and defense stakeholders for the Defense Institute for International and Legal Studies (DIILS). Created 501(c)3 Engageinchangehaiti.org with a mission to provide relief and recovery services through education.

Led the design of a conflict training curriculum to provide conflict-sensitive programs to international civilian aid workers and their partners working in humanitarian and post-conflict settings. Led a five-person team to coordinate efforts across USAID’s Washington bureaus and field missions mentored and coached trainers to assist them in professional competency development. Principal author, investigator, and co-team leader: Haiti Conflict Assessment 2008.

Served as Senior Advisor for Political Processes, Civil Society, and Local Governance for the USAID/Haiti Justice, Democracy, and Governance Office. Led the strategic planning process to channel U.S. assistance to strengthen institutional capacity; and secured new funding for anti-trafficking and anti-corruption programming. Served as Office Director for 16 months during an acute political crisis; selected as a key political analyst for U.S. Embassy; served as governance expert on the interagency task force. Seconded to the Office of Transition Initiatives to provide analysis and design for programming in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Managed 18 staff and $10 million budget; initiated donor coordination committee. Collaborated on the design of monitoring and evaluation instruments and launched customer outreach activities, including focus groups and political opinion polling. Led the design of a conflict-sensitive training curriculum and programming for international civilian aid workers and their partners working in humanitarian and post-conflict settings.

Managed grant funding from the Office of Transition Initiatives; selected over 350 community-based grant recipients. Designed a 15-module civic education/capacity-building program for civil society leaders and newly elected officials. Served as the Regional Office of Transition Initiatives Lead Petit Goave; designed governance programs to establish consultation mechanisms for civil society and newly elected officials; prepared 22 trainers who trained more than 2,500 nationally.Provided technical oversight to Haiti’s National Office of Migration to track and reintegrate refugee populations. Helped develop and implement a national migration policy and strategies for retention and reintegration of Haitian refugees, fiscal management, and donor coordination.

Led multicultural teams in the design of language, cross-cultural, and technical curricula. Managed a team of 50 interdisciplinary staff from Cameroon, Chad, Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, and Mauritania in the implementation of training programs for 500 Peace Corps Volunteers.

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