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HR/Business Professional: 35+ years successfully integrating business and people strategies through organizational alignment in the public/private sector.

Executing Strategy and Strategic Change: Experienced in creating and executing crucial change through collaboration, talent development, and cultural design.

Employee and Labor Relations: Passionate about fostering diverse, engaged teams that achieve organizational goals.

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Enterprise Transformation: 14+ years spanning software engineering, management consulting, investment banking, and enterprise product strategy.

Decision Architecture: Designed the leadership operating cadence that carried a $5B software platform through a $22B merger.

Operating Model Design: Led a 39-product operating model redesign delivering $20M in annual savings and a 10% efficiency gain.

Partnership-Led Growth: Built strategic partnerships with Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce opening new channels bringing in over $200M in first year co-sell revenue.

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Experience Strategy, Executive Storytelling & Narrative-Driven Transformation: Architects experience strategy aligning customer insight, operations, and goals, using executive storytelling to translate complexity into strategic direction.

UX/CX Research, Service Design & Strategic Advisory: Orchestrates end-to-end UX/CX strategy, integrating research and service design to accelerate adoption, reduce friction, and elevate performance.

Human-Centered Innovation & Equity Integration: Champions inclusive innovation, embedding equity and human-centered rigor to elevate trust, access, and long-term impact.

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Product Development and Go-to-Market: Experienced in building and scaling early-stage products, translating emerging ideas into practical solutions, and developing go-to-market strategies that drive adoption and growth.

AI Adoption and Training: Designs hands-on learning experiences—including hackathons, workshops, and team programs—that help people experiment with AI and confidently integrate it into their work.

Cross-Functional Systems Thinking: Connects people, ideas, and systems across disciplines, with a particular ability to translate between the public and private sectors and move complex initiatives forward.

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Dedicated Government Experience: Over 9 years enhancing city government performance in San Francisco.

Data-Driven Insights: Proficient in research, data analysis, and visualization for informed decision-making.

Strategic Planning: Expertise in project management, stakeholder coordination, and process improvement for efficient government operations.

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Seasoned Operator: 15+ years leading operations, finance, and organizational design at high-growth technology companies, from early-stage startups to public companies, now serving founders as a fractional COO and coach.

Cross-Functional Collaborator: Skilled at orienting quickly, connecting the dots across functions, and translating strategy into decisive action, with deep experience managing complex launches and guiding teams through periods of significant transition.

AI Implementation: Hands-on experience evaluating and deploying AI tools for operational workflows, from build-vs-buy decisions to driving organizational adoption and building team fluency.

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Fundraising Expert: Fueling nonprofits that move communities civically at the intersection of racial equity, immigration, and other justice issues for 20 years. 

Development Consultant: Building capacity by providing strategy, technical assistance, and coaching for leaders and their power-building groups. 

Certified Philanthropy Advisor: Bridging doers and donors by aligning values to wealth giving plans for future-thinking clients and the teams guiding them.

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Social Change Advocate: Over 10 years driving social change in nonprofits, government, and law.

Community Affairs Director: Led nonprofit initiatives, raised funding, and catalyzed action.

Legal Services Specialist: Experienced in public health law, poverty alleviation, and more.

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Policy Leadership: 25+ years driving policy and strategic change in health and housing.

Advocacy & Fundraising Expert: Key role in securing $18.5 billion for housing and homelessness initiatives.

Strategic Planning: Spearheaded major initiatives like California Roadmap Home 2030, for community impact.

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Local Government Expert: 12 years in SF, covering budget, policy, HR, and tech.

Versatile Professional: Brings valuable experience from non-profits and education organizations.

Strategic Planning Specialist: Adept in HR, policy, budgeting, process improvement, staff coaching.

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Diverse Sector Knowledge: Over 25 years in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors, developing a broad range of products and services.

Data-Driven Problem-Solver: Expert research and analysis to foster innovation and achievable human-centered solutions.

Equity Advocate: Passionate about promoting justice and equity; experience applying racial equity tools and frameworks.

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Extensive Government Insight: 20 years collaborating with local and state governments.

Policy Implementation: Proficient in policy development, program evaluation, and community health.

Effective Leadership: Offers executive advisory, project management, and leadership development in government settings.

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Program and Project Management: Over 15 years of progressive leadership and operational management experience, including serving as a City bureau Director.

Seasoned Problem-Solver: Extensive experience finding solutions through complex political and operational environments.

Resiliency Builder: Expertise in building operational and institutional resiliency through a variety of strategies and tools.

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Far-Reaching Strategy Experience: 15+ years of developing and executing strategy for diverse private sector and social impact organizations in the US and overseas, from early stage startups to local arts nonprofits to multi-billion dollar healthcare organizations.

Meticulous Management Style: Approach projects with an eye for detail, flexibility, and transparency to deliver engagements in a systematic and results-oriented manner.

Simplifying the Complex: Skilled at delving into nuanced issues and leveraging data, analysis, and stakeholder engagement to understand and effectively communicate root causes, key insights, and potential strategic options.

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Operations Design & Delivery: Builds clear, scalable systems and processes that help teams stay aligned, work efficiently, and adapt as they grow.

Public Sector Procurement & Contracting: Supports public agencies and mission-driven organizations in navigating procurement, contracting, and compliance across local, regional, and state contexts.

Digital Systems & Data Implementation: Supports implementation of secure digital tools, with expertise in software development, protected data environments, and cross-sector collaboration.

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Civic & Public Sector Innovation: Over a decade of experience driving design research, strategic planning, and technology adoption across cultural institutions, healthcare, higher education, and technology companies.

Tech Adaptation & AI Governance: Spent 5 years at the nation’s largest public library system guiding research on organizational adaptation to emerging technology—piloting its first AI tool and building staff adoption frameworks.

Human-Centered Facilitator: Leverages a background in theater and group dynamics to build psychological safety, facilitate complex stakeholder alignment, and design services grounded in operational realities.

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Connecting Design and Strategy: Multidisciplinary designer with experience across enterprise software and consumer platforms, always approaching design as a balance of strategy, empathy, and execution.

Systems Thinker: Leads studies across organizations to understand individual needs (zoom in), while mapping systems and relationships within them (zoom out).

Product Designer: Creates intuitive, meaningful experiences that solve real problems, with a focus on navigating complexity.

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AI-First Product Leadership: Over 15 years leading product strategy and execution, with an AI-first approach embedded into modern product practice.

Technology Sector Expertise: Extensive experience across fintech, healthcare, SaaS, mobile, robotics, web3, consumer, and emerging technology environments.

Deep User Research Skills: Strong qualitative research practice grounded in customer discovery, synthesis, and translating insights into product and organizational direction.

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Human Centered Design Expert: 25+ years of design strategy and craft, applying holistic, human-centered methods to complex problems. 12+ years as a Service Design practitioner, leader, and teacher.

Qualitative Researcher: 12+ years of qualitative research and mixed-methods collaboration, leading rigorous studies and communicating insights to drive real-world impact.

Storytelling for Impact: Communicating rich insights in memorable ways that enable organizations to build shared narratives around their priorities and vision.

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Public Sector Expertise: 15+ years in program and project management, policy development and analysis, research, and stakeholder engagement at the local, regional, state, and federal levels of government.

Legislative Insight: Deep understanding of the legislative process, from 10+ years of experience working in legislative affairs and as a senior legislative staffer.

Problem-Solver: Skilled at navigating complex public processes and sensitive political or operational environments while still exceeding client expectations.

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Government Oversight: Skilled in assessing government program efficiency and effectiveness.

Research Expertise: Proficient in qualitative data collection, analysis, surveys, interviews, and program evaluation.

Project Management: Experienced in project management and team communication facilitation.

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Philanthropic and Nonprofit Strategy: 30+ years in nonprofit/philanthropic  program development, management, and evaluation.

Research and Policy: Expertise in range of research methods and analysis and social policy development and advocacy.

Collaborative Leadership: Values-driven and inclusive approach that prioritizes the voice and power of affected people and communities.

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Innovation Leadership: Led Future of Work strategy at VMware for 37,000 employees through the post-COVID hybrid transition, including strategy for 10,000+ contingent workers.

AI & Digital Transformation: Rebuilt systems and services around what the work actually needs — including a 5-year digital transformation roadmap for $2B spend program at VMware projected to deliver $6M in cost savings and reduce non-strategic work by 50%.

Measurement & Goals: Deep experience in measuring what matters to meet desired outcomes. Worked in VMware Office of CEO and managed company wide goals across 300+ VPs.

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Nonprofit Leader: 10+ years as nonprofit executive director with expertise in strategic planning, budgeting, fundraising, staff development, board development, community organizing and program delivery.

Local Government Expertise: 10+ years leading equity initiatives, program development and implementation, policy development and stakeholder engagement in San Francisco.

Strategic Project Manager: Highly skilled in bringing disparate teams together to collaboratively implement complex projects and policies.

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Public Sector Expertise: 20+ years in policy development, analysis and stakeholder engagement in collaboration with local, state and federal government.

Change Management: Skilled in mapping and facilitating organizational change and data translation.

Project Manager and Facilitator: Designs projects and leads teams in the public and private sector, while providing leadership development and coaching.

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Budget Expert: 10+ years of budget development, analysis, and municipal finance know-how.

Policy Implementer: Adept at translating high level policy goals into actionable organizational work plans.

Effective Facilitator: Skilled at guiding governmental projects and initiatives by listening to and caring about the people doing the work.

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Strategic Public Sector Leader: 15+ years driving positive change in the public sector in various leadership roles including as Co-Founder of EQ.

Coach & Facilitator: Creating and supporting healthy work environments and growth for leaders and their teams.

Public Finance Expert: Former City and County of San Francisco Budget Director overseeing a $12 billion process aligning hundreds of stakeholders.

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Strategic communications for narrative change: Writing and insights that strengthen visibility, shift narratives, and highlight impact.

Event leadership and content management: Designing stellar agendas, managing speakers, and producing conferences and content that delight audiences and build brand. 

Nonprofit strategy and fundraising guidance: Supporting organizations with strategic input, fundraising approaches, and communications advice through crisis and calm.

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