Operational Excellence-Drove enterprise operational excellence and risk leadership by building and managing a team of six to deliver internal audit, enterprise risk management, org-wide policy, data privacy, and compliance workstreams to 1,600 Teach For America staff across 53 regional offices -Reimagined internal audit strategy to deliver impact more agilely amidst COVID-19 by balancing traditional audit with emergent advisory services to support evolving operations -Established stronger compliance monitoring through the development and automation of a monthly compliance dashboard reporting to all leadership and teams across the organization-Created more stakeholder centered experience & operational efficiencies by expanding team to include staff policy work. Integrated training philosophy into staff policy process to create more consistent and user focused training experience Team and Enterprise Leadership-Built and maintained exceptional team culture (top 5% team engagement and satisfaction scores). Mentored team including helping each member navigate work, personal and professional growth needs through weekly touchpoints, team calls, and ongoing professional development opportunities-Drove deeper executive risk awareness and investment by becoming a trusted risk advisor to C-Suite and Board through ongoing management and delivery of quarterly Board Audit Committee engagements-Invited to join organization’s executive body, meeting weekly with executives across the organization to align on enterprise strategy in pursuit of TFA’s mission Fiscal Stewardship-Delivered exceptional results while maintaining tight budget management (5%-10% under budget YOY)

-Institutionalized key best practices practices across 2,400 Teach For America staff by building and managing risk management program. Established and executed strategy, communications, training, team management and budget. Later, collaborated with head of internal audit to develop and execute boarder risk and compliance team vision, charge and structure to increase organizational efficiency and awareness of risk and compliance.-Created and implemented a number of cross-functional projects to help organization better manage emerging threats including data privacy, cyber security, and incident management.-Achieved $250K in cost savings by streamlining key processes and external cost drivers.-Managed organization's insurance portfolio from managing broker relationship to identifying new exposures and coverage options to claims management.-Delivered greater organizational transparency by leading organization-wide project to clarify the roles and responsibilities between Teach For America’s regional teams and national organization.-Implemented formalized incident and crisis response efforts by spearheading the development and operationalization of the organization’s approach by marshaling organizational support and key stakeholders to invest in this initiative. The resulting framework became so deeply institutionalized that it has been leveraged over 25 times since inception to address a broad array of topics ranging from crisis communications needs to COVID-19

-Enabled large museum to weather significant leadership and financial changes by redesigning its business, engagement, and communication strategy. Recommendations enabled museum to reach thousands of new supporters and ensured its long-term financial sustainability-Grew impact of a mid-sized nonprofit organization by delivering the first phase of its strategic plan. Resulting recommendations enabled organization’s leadership to secure additional funding to develop a full strategic plan-Improved firm effectiveness by spearheading internal process improvements including establishing an account management practice, initiating weekly cross-functional team check-ins, and documenting internal strategy methodology-ROI Ventures was acquired in 2012 and now is part of Leo Burnett

-Secured greater internal financial support and introductory meetings with the Rockefeller and Gates Foundations (potential funding opportunity of $500K-$2M) by developing and initiating the Division’s strategic plan-Strengthened financial transparency, focused fundraising efforts, and expanded work in Liberia and Uganda by spearheading detailed 10-year budgeting process-Started as a pro-bono consultant as part of a MBA project and asked to stay on as a paid consultant after initial engagement concluded

-Engaged pharmaceutical client to realize $50M investment through increased regulatory standardization in 118 countries by managing global team to develop and execute change management and training strategy on-time and under-budget-Ensured 50% process cost reduction and full staff adoption by leading change management efforts for an adverse event reporting standardization project within a biotech company-Received Business Excellence and “Best in Class” Awards for project delivery excellence, superior client service, and internal practice development (Awarded to top 5 practice contributors out of 300 practice members per quarter)