Apr 2023 – Nov 2025 · 2 yrs 7 mos · Washington DC-Baltimore Area · Hybrid

• Advises the Board and Chief Executive of the Global Environment Management Initiative (GEMI) to develop and deliver strategic plans, membership development strategies, and education for sustainability and social leadership across GEMI membership.

Nov 2022 – Present · 3 yrs 4 mos · Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Served as the Lead Sustainability Advisor at Suppliers Partnership for the Environment, focusing on environmental impact in the automotive industry.
• Developed a comprehensive leadership curriculum to foster sustainability collaborations across the global automotive supply chain.
• Engaged with vehicle manufacturers and suppliers to promote a shared vision for a sustainable future.

Apr 2021 – Present · 4 yrs 11 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

• Joined as a member of the Athena Alliance, a virtual women's alliance community bringing together women leaders, investors, CEOs, board directors, and corporations. Leverages the Athena community where women can advance one another’s interests, knowledge, and career opportunities, such as board seats, advisor roles, coveted CxO positions, and more.

Feb 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 1 mo · San Francisco Bay Area

• Works with Plan C Advisors, a global climate consultancy to provide board directors the strategic insights and frameworks needed to catalyze climate action in organizations. Advises Boards and C-Suites on identifying the highest-priority sustainability, social, and climate-related risks and opportunities facing companies and developing strategic options to address those risks and opportunities. Collaborates with organizational sustainability and social leadership to develop and educate board members through incisive modules delivered by senior executives from a range of industry sectors.

Feb 2021 – Present · 5 yrs 1 mo · Hybrid

• Serves on the Board and advises the Australian Consulting Network on the strategic direction of the company, its stakeholder network, and its market. ACN focuses on the people & culture space, brought into a company when improvements to the experience of the people & culture could make a significant difference. These improvements in performance enhance the speed and experience of working, build on critical working relationships, improve the decision-making and engagement, emphasize critical processes ownership, and increase the impact of work.

Mar 2016 – Present · 10 yrs · US, UK, and Circumpolar

• Leads the organization's focus on sustainability economics and the development of the sustainability business case through the integration of bespoke sustainability strategy with clients’ existing strategy. Leads multi-stakeholder groups in the development and execution of social performance strategies. Manages complex cross-industry collaborations in developing industry-specific sustainability strategies. Leverages economic insights into sustainability strategies, identifies emerging sustainability markets, navigates the intricate challenges of the status quo in safety performance, increases operational and business process efficiencies, develops competitive strategies in sustainability, and optimizes existing assets through strategically addressing climate impacts. Uses the best transformational and organizational change management techniques including stakeholder alignment to ensure that clients succeed in enhancing their partnerships, their reputation, their efficiencies, and their profits.

Jan 2015 – Feb 2022 · 7 yrs 1 mo · Anchorage, Alaska Area

• Appointed by the US Secretary of the Department of the Interior to the Sciences Technical Advisory Panel to provide support and research on Arctic culture and traditional knowledge. Leveraged experience in Arctic Alaska, representing the intersection of industry development and social change through research and scientific studies, including climate change. Engaged stakeholders from Alaska and Federal US Government Agencies, as well as community representatives and influencers.

Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 · 2 yrs · Anchorage, Alaska Area

• Worked alongside US Federal and State agencies, the energy industry, NGOs, financial institutions, and research groups in the National Petroleum Council's study of the Arctic. Engaged stakeholders from the different agencies as well as Alaskan Natives and community residents. Participated in the development of the report and recommendations to the US Secretary of Energy on Arctic Oil and Gas development.

Jan 2010 – Jan 2016 · 6 yrs · Various: UK, Africa, Australia, US

• Led the development of ERM’s integrated practice in ESG, Sustainability, and Non-Technical Risk across the client base. Identified and developed strategies in sustainability, ESG, climate change, social performance, and safety, risks for industrial development projects. Introduced the client-specific business case, new skills and capabilities within the organization, leading cross-divisional and multi-practice integrated programs within client organizations. Applied anthropological and change-management expertise toward the design and delivery of proactive community social studies, dramatically changing the client organization’s operational approaches and business decision-making processes.

Jan 2007 – Jan 2010 · 3 yrs · Aberdeen, Johannesburg, London, and Singapore

• Adapted change-management techniques into the design global behavioral-safety programs with oil and gas and mining majors with JMJ, a leadership and safety consultancy, and JMW, an executive leadership consultancy. Managed efforts across the entire vertical organizational system (from the ground floor to the boardroom) to identify leadership and functional contributions to safety performance, opportunities for performance improvements, and significant improvements to local community interfaces. Engaged across executive leadership, local South African leadership, the communities, the field, operations, maintenance, engineering, and other technical functions, to design and implement changes that enhanced safety.

Jan 2005 – Jan 2007 · 2 yrs · UK and Netherlands

• Served as a managing director for Corven, a strategy and change management boutique within the UK, later acquired by Oliver Wyman. Managed critical global rollouts from corporate center to the globally dispersed operations and their local communities. Worked across project stakeholders to identify benefits for all sides for the changes indicated, designed multiple-change initiatives to ensure minimal impacts on workers were both minimized and optimized, developed key strategic relationships to transfer skills to both communities and local operations during the change transition, and leveraged the existing client-organization talent in the identification of need solutions as well as in the implementation of those solutions.

Jan 1999 – Jan 2005 · 6 yrs · New York, San Francisco, London and the Netherlands

• Founded and managed a boutique consultancy focused on optimizing the economics of the space between organizations and their communities, customers, suppliers, and divisions. Managed multiple company projects that worked with client executive teams to identify and implement new revenue channels and to enhance existing client revenue streams, thereby increasing client revenues by high multipliers. Worked with Fortune 200 clients, including major oil and gas, pharmaceuticals, financial services, technology, and advertising and media agencies.

Jan 1997 – Jan 1999 · 2 yrs · Boston and Philadelphia

• Led the US Financial Services Practice division for Korn Ferry Hay Group. Created and delivered financial services marketing strategies, leveraging existing offerings while creating new integrated offerings based on localized contexts. Worked with Daniel Goleman to develop, deliver, and engage on products based on Emotional Intelligence. Managed the Financial Services Partner network and increased the average project size within Financial Services through product integration and improved customer-relationship management. Identified and developed key strategic alliances with other organizations to improve technology and change-management products and their delivery.

Jan 1989 – Jan 1997 · 8 yrs · Cambridge, MA

• Led a boutique management consulting company, CSC Index, founded out of Harvard Business School and MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Developed, with management academics, new management practice in reengineering, organizational change management, and executive alignment. Worked on social and people strategies, both internal and external, with client leadership. Designed and implemented marketplace alliances and managed multi-project programs ranging from strategic marketplace development with an associated 30 to 75 percent increase in revenues.