I am an innovation ecosystem strategist and consultant with over 25 years of experience empowering organizations to navigate complex challenges and unlock their potential. My expertise spans government, academia, and the private sector, where I drive transformative outcomes through cutting-edge strategies, systems thinking, and impactful partnerships.As the founder of my consulting practice, I advise startups and organizations on how to leverage the Lean Startup methodology to enter markets effectively, identify customer “Jobs to be Done,” and employ the build-measure-learn cycle to create the right product at the right time for the right audience. My mentorship includes guiding five startup teams at Bowie State University in a competitive pitch event, where the winning team secured $3,500 to advance their minimum viable product (MVP).I’ve also delivered measurable results at scale, including negotiating a $1.5 billion National Security Innovation Network IDIQ contract and leading initiatives that integrate Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) into national innovation ecosystems. My work has secured multi-million-dollar partnerships, strengthened national security frameworks, and transformed organizational operations for greater agility and alignment.Beyond consulting, I am an accomplished public speaker, master of ceremonies, and podcaster. I’ve moderated high-profile panels, delivered keynote addresses for organizations like NASA, and facilitated national conferences and workshops on innovation, leadership, and diversity. As a co-host and guest on several podcasts, I share insights on innovation, entrepreneurship, and organizational transformation, amplifying my mission to inspire change and empower communities.Let’s connect to explore how I can help your organization turn challenges into opportunities, build impactful strategies, and achieve meaningful transformation.

As an entrepreneur in residence, my role is to counsel and advise students on writing business plans, marketing proposals, creating strategy briefs, business development cases, and preparation for venture capital presentations. All of this to support innovative and promising student startups and support the student businesses when they launch and as they grow.

The Catalyst Leadership Trust (CLT) is a purpose-driven, invite-only intimate executive community curated to help Catalyst leaders drive the change needed for the world and for their organizationsParticipants are Catalyst executives chosen for their bold strategies, innovative outlook, and proven record of business transformation and community impact. Selected members represent a wide range of industries and roles. The CLT offers connections, learning and research enriched by a diverse set of voices from the membership and the broader Samudra community ecosystem. Membership is by invitation only, and no substitutes are allowed.

Providing startup coaching to a cohort of new entrepreneurs in various enterprises from FinTech to Lifestyle/Health.

Certified Group Relations Consultant Served as consulting and administrative staff on both national and international Group Relations Conferences dedicated to the study of authority, leadership, and organizational dynamics as presented in human systems.Chair of the IT committeeCo-Convener of emergent AKRI Community Meeting. Responsible for the backend (technology) management of participant entry.Board representative to 2021 Dialogues committee - Bi-annual scientific meeting of the AK Rice Institute.

Senior Consultant/Advisor Advisor supporting the LightRoot from time totime on matters relating to actual or potential business, technology, and products, with a focus on US government introductions and strategy.

Serving as a mentor to a climate tech company that developed a patented clean energy process for converting fossil fuels and biomass into large-scale graphene-based products.

Analytic-Network Coaching™ (A-Nc) is an avant-garde, ethically driven coaching company, formed to help transform how coaches coach, how leaders lead, and how organizations organize.https://www.analyticnetwork.com/

The Tech Innovation Circle (TIC) aims to accelerate the capacity for market engagement and serve as a catalyst for effective emerging tech focused public/private partnerships.

Negotiated teaming agreements with small business supporting a NASA initiative and MSI responding to IDIQ worth more than $2BCo-sponsored with UNCF/Applied Research Institute inaugural HBCU H4 Educators Workshop.Facilitated defense focused DEIA meeting on the future of the HBCU ecosystem as part of the national conversation about STEM, centered on the Research Institute for Tactical Automony. Responsible for maintaining current and developing new strategic relationships with universities and corporate sponsors on behalf of CMP to ensure the support to university-student teams solving critical national security problems.Negotiated and secured a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement and Educational Partnership Agreement with a member of the national security enterprise to support student teams at Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Negotiated a $700K contribution to the CMP Impact Fund; with $200K dedicated to supporting of Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) and Minority Serving Institutions (MSI). Structured a "public good integrator" strategic partnership model of public, private, government, and university beneficiaries' to take advantage of National Priorities identified as a part of the Build Back Better and CHIPS and Science Act.Produced two successful Lean Innovation Education Summits serving over 1000 participants representing 283 academic institutions in 29 countries. Guests include Steve Blank and Alex Osterwalder.

Providing support and consultation to National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency leadership and workforce on the principles of the Lean Startup methodology to connect innovation strategy with the agency strategic direction. Introduce the use of the Mission Model Canvas, a modification of the Business Model Canvas, as an enterprise tool for the development of innovative business models to execute mission priorities. The canvas is designed to focus on mission-oriented organizations when monetization is not the driver. Designed and delivered to over 300 students, 2 distinct Lean Startup innovation courses. A one-day Executive course focused on assisting senior leadership to clarify and articulate their organization innovation strategy; specifically, the Playing to Win© methodology by Roger Martin. Additionally, provided a 2-day staff level course design to focus on developing a problem curation and value proposition based mission problem to solve. Built a Lean Innovation Accelerator program that sponsored and coached 10 product teams through customer discovery, MVP development, and product pitch to NGA leadership.Delivered primary consultation to the CIO and CTO organizational merger to align strategy and investments. Deliverables included offsites design and facilitation, organizational design, and change management. impacting over 1700+ people.Provided executive-level coaching and facilitation across NGA. Offices include Deputy Director/NGA senior leadership team, and key component offices - CIO-T, Office of Venture and Innovation, Human Development (Resouces), Analysis, and Office of Diversity and Equity.Consulting to the development of an AI and automation digital transformation to align with the National Defense Strategy.Hosted an internal podcast highlighting world-class experts in innovation, design, national strategy, and commercial innovation.

Provided organizational development support to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.Facilitated stakeholder engagement workshops to identify crucial issues/trends and provide subsequent analysis and recommendations to senior leadership. The recommendation included disseminating appropriate scholarly and business articles highlighting best practices in industry and government to ensure mission success. Performed stakeholder engagement tasks and activities to include facilitation of very large and small groups to effectively manage organizational change.Performed Strategic and corporate assessment across multiple organizations to study the connection between Agency mission and operations through the use of traditional organizational development tools and best in practice offerings like Business Model Innovation and Blue Ocean Strategy©.

Consulted to NGA Vision Implementation Team on the strategic modeling of the future of the Agency; to include the movement to a content-driven, e-commerce environment of "on-line/on-demand and deeper analytics content". The consultant to the merger of two complementary product lines/organizations to better align with customer-focused mission outcomes, impacting +2000 Facilitated multiple Senior Executive-level off-sites focused on vision and strategy; utilizing best-in-practice Blue Ocean Strategy© and Business Model Innovation to execute a shift to digital environment to meet customer demand, resulting in POM funding in excess of $250 million. Comment by client stated that in his experience ― "the agency never has done funding based on the use of a strategy." Developed a mission-oriented Balanced Scorecard framework to track performance management ensuring strategic alignment with agency-level priorities.Providing executive coaching to senior executives on issues of leadership and organization development necessary to drive greater public value within their respective organizations.

Provided HBO senior leadership with consultative service in management, leadership, and organizational development to address the changing media environment. Provided best practices, professional and organizational tools, and expertise to match emerging business priorities.Created an internal consultancy model strategically designed to deliver cost-effective, efficient organizational development support by focusing on appropriate―in-sourcing of tasks which actualized savings in excess of $350,000 through the introduction of eight new courses.Negotiated in-house consulting services for large scale change management project ensuring that it stayed within agreed upon service agreements.Provided strategic oversight of the development of a diversity and inclusion program focused on generational, role, and unconscious bias across the organization.Co-developed the Organizational Review/Talent Management Manuel used to identify the senior level successor map. The data was based upon information gathered through the use of the Nine-Box talent identification methodology.Revitalized the Vice President and Director leadership development programs to focus on a strategic level of the business environment through a 360 leadership assessment. Responsible for identification of new potential executives for additional leadership development opportunities.Conducted review, analysis, and interpretation of data with senior managers of annual employee opinion survey results with human resources, resulting in recommendations for organizational changes.

Provided organizational development support to a National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.Designed several off-sites to create awareness and understanding of roles and responsibilities for a transition planning team; specifically tasked with managing the cultural ramification of organizational change.Consulted to an organization comprised of loosely interdependent functional groups to create a strategic direction in alignment with the larger agency strategic plan. This resulted in innovative and creative facilitation that lead to the construction of cultural, business, and people development behaviors and practice statements.Consulted to the development of a risk/resources assessment matrix to assist leadership in determining prioritization based on mission criticality and budget cycles.Conducting a multiple-day offsite for an analytic leadership team to creating functional alignment with national security strategy, as well as develop better team functioning.

Created training plans for an intelligence community agency to educate existing and new employees on re-engineered logistical and accountability processes.Facilitated numerous interactions between the intelligence community agency and contractor with the intention of ensuring that contractual outcomes were met through the alignment of organizational capabilities.

• Created and taught a unique customer service program for the Eagle Alliance (EA) workforce designed to mitigate customer service deficiencies resulting in lost revenues.• Facilitated a joint Project Management Offices (intelligence community agency and contractor) offsite to ensure the development of better working relationships utilizing the same Customer Service program delivered to EA staff and subcontractors. Subsequent assessment by senior management attributed improvements in customer satisfaction scores and increased revenues to the program.• Developed instructional designs for six courses to assist both the front-line staff and managers in their day-to-day interactions with both internal and external clients.• Performed statistical analysis of performance rating for approximately 900 employees across multiple levels and functions through the use of an on-line survey tool ensuring equity in the ratings and rankings.• Participated in job mapping exercise designed to assure alignment between organizational role and function. Activities consisted of interviewing team leads and subsequent assignment of jobs to appropriate functional categories.

Co-facilitated the development of a long-range strategic plan for the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR) Charged with securing data through interviews and electronic surveys of staff and stakeholders. Responsible for collection and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data and feedback to the client in an understandable format culminating a multiday offsite in Zimbabwe (Southern Africa).Designed and delivered training to international, federal, private, and non-profit organizations on such topics as team building, inter-organizational partnerships, communication skills, performance improvement, human resources alignment, collaborative networks, and strategic planning. Co-Consulted with the USAID, World Bank, USDA Forest Service International Programs, the Government Printing Office (GPO), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and ACDI/VOCA on team building, goal setting, and strategic planning.