Oct 2025 – Present · 5 mos · New York, New York, United States

Jun 2025 – Nov 2025 · 5 mos

Oct 2024 – Oct 2025 · 1 yr

• Set and led The Rockefeller Foundation’s innovation agenda, identifying breakthrough opportunities and building new ventures, coalitions, and platforms to transform systems at scale. Drove execution in partnership with senior leaders and external stakeholders across non-profits, business, and government.

Mar 2018 – Oct 2024 · 6 yrs 7 mos

• Currently leading RF’s Innovation Team with a focus on building data science and convenings capabilities to advance those fields in service of social change and to integrate new practices and solutions in support of our programmatic work in health, food, energy access, economic opportunity, and climate.

Nov 2013 – Mar 2018 · 4 yrs 4 mos

• Led the global Program Team of over 70 professional in assessing opportunities, designing strategies, and managing implementation to achieve transformative change. Responsibilities included setting strategy and managing execution of the Foundation's initiatives, monitoring impact and performance, driving continuous organizational improvement, representing the Foundation at high-level events, and building partnerships

Nov 2009 – Nov 2013 · 4 yrs

• As co-leader of the Program Team, led the Research, Strategy, Innovation, and Evaluation functions in addition to our Bellagio center programming. Shaped the Foundation’s overall strategy to achieve our vision. Oversaw the Foundation’s scanning, opportunity shaping, and strategy development processes to implement a new initiative model driven by a delivery unit for RF priorities

Jul 2009 – Oct 2009 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Joined Booz & Company (now part of PwC as Strategy&) after it acquired Katzenbach Partners. As a leader in the Organizational Change & Leadership, High-Tech, and Telecommunications practices, I led account teams and practice areas. Co-founded the Katzenbach Center to create new approaches for improving organizational performance.

Jul 2003 – Jul 2009 · 6 yrs · Greater New York City Area

• Joined as an engagement manager to support existing client accounts and was promoted to lead and acquire new client accounts. Asked to open our San Francisco office based on a proven track record of client service, people development, thought leadership, and entrepreneurship.Developed and managed major client accounts and expanded our client base with ~$2MM of new client billings annually. Developed our practice areas in senior leadership team effectiveness, strategy under uncertainty, innovation, P&L-based management, and organizational transformation. Initiated the firm’s signature intellectual capital on the “informal” organization that was published in many magazines and journals. Co-authored Leading Outside the Lines (Jossey-Bass, 2010) with Jon Katzenbach, which was listed as one of the year’s top 10 business books and translated into five different languages.

Oct 1999 – Jul 2003 · 3 yrs 9 mos · Greater New York City Area

• Joined the Strategic Services practice with a focus on high tech and telecom clients. Focused on product portfolio strategy, operational transformation, new business models, and marketing strategy.