"Management is about coping with complexity.

Leadership, by contrast, is about coping with change."

— John P. Kotter

A leader experienced in delivering operational excellence, productivity, growth, and improved efficiency in complex organizations. Key areas of focus include culture, business processes, organization structure and effectiveness, and technology leverage. Experience encompasses public, private, domestic and global companies in multiple industries.

Leadership: An engaging leader who quickly assess an environment, creates a clear vision, and collaborates to identify a strategy. Change agent with a track record of setting a direction and aligning people to produce growth in both individuals and organizations. Highly accomplished at leveraging people with an innate ability to attract, motivate and leverage talent reinforced with strong coaching and mentoring skills.
 

Transformational Change: Natural ability to bring order out of chaos by quickly identifying a way forward, calming uncertainty, and rallying a team to pull forward in unison. Particularly successful in environments such as post-merger integrations, outsourcing activities, fast-growth, and turnaround situations.
 

Management: Able to thrive in complexity. A systematic thinker who solves problems with logical analysis and intuitive insights. Many years experience in managing employees including hiring, development, performance management, mentoring, and coaching for high performance. Able to create a synergistic team by inspiring people to excellence through a commitment to a common agenda. Innate ability to create organizational structures and processes that enable efficient workflow and employee productivity.
 

Communication: Highly articulate communicator with strong presentation skills and a proven ability to bridge the gap between technical and non-technical people. Comfortable and accomplished public speaker.
 

Technology: Extensive knowledge of the current state of technology covering the spectrum from large distributed environments with multi-tiered application architectures to desktop computing and personal digital assistants. An intuitive understanding of technological trends and the effective use of technology to deliver organizational productivity. Broad experience in managing the entire IT stack from wide area networks  and data centers to desktop computers and end-user support.
 

Organizational Effectiveness:. Adept at refining and maneuvering large, complex organizations, especially those that involve matrixed or outsourced arrangements. Change agent attuned to culture and intangible factors coupled with the application of effective methods for driving change.
 

Project / Program Management: History of success with large scale projects spanning complex stakeholder management to detailed technical solutions. Process focused with a passion for creating the processes and environments essential for successful projects and programs. Capable of bringing a diverse group of individuals together as a team focused on the project objectives. Accurate sense of organization design for effective project and program delivery.
 

Personal Style as Described by Myers-Briggs Type: INTJ
 

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