I am a Transformation and Change Management Leader with exceptional record of delivering product development, digital transformation, and regulatory compliance initiatives. My approach ensures successful strategy implementation through effective Change Governance and Project Portfolio Management.
As a Senior Change Leader, I am viewed as an integral partner to C-suite executives, enabling organizations to unlock profit and efficiency opportunities through technology, process excellence, and culture change. I have been recognized for building and leading highly motivated teams that deliver superior business outcomes through organization-wide collaboration and stakeholder engagement.
Why Manage Change?
Effective Project and Program Management is vital for successful business transformations. Too often, however, demand for change outstrips available personnel and capital capacity. Other times, complex portfolios of change initiatives are not optimized or aligned. A sound approach on resource planning, setting priorities, and ensuring strategic and functional alignment always improves change agility and return on investment.
I am a thought leader on improved change leadership in business, which is an essential response to increasing demand for change and lacking visibility into constraints and change impacts. Always striking a balance to people, processes, and technology, I establish capabilities that enable organizations to:
As a Senior Change Leader, I am viewed as an integral partner to C-suite executives, enabling organizations to unlock profit and efficiency opportunities through technology, process excellence, and culture change. I have been recognized for building and leading highly motivated teams that deliver superior business outcomes through organization-wide collaboration and stakeholder engagement.
Why Manage Change?
Effective Project and Program Management is vital for successful business transformations. Too often, however, demand for change outstrips available personnel and capital capacity. Other times, complex portfolios of change initiatives are not optimized or aligned. A sound approach on resource planning, setting priorities, and ensuring strategic and functional alignment always improves change agility and return on investment.
I am a thought leader on improved change leadership in business, which is an essential response to increasing demand for change and lacking visibility into constraints and change impacts. Always striking a balance to people, processes, and technology, I establish capabilities that enable organizations to:
- Link the change agenda to strategic objectives
- Ensure cross-matrix mobilization and alignment
- Optimize project portfolios and resource allocation
- Reconcile trade-offs on resourcing and benefits
- Manage change at organizational and employee level
- Execute and adapt the project portfolio
- Drive accountability for outcomes
- Deliver measurable financial/non-financial benefits
My areas of expertise include:
- Change Governance Work with executives to create and prioritize the transformation agenda
- Project Portfolio Management Facilitate selection, delivery, balancing, benefits realization of projects
- Resource Management Rationalize strategic priorities, resources, benefits commitments
- Integration Management Activate matrix stakeholders and align cross-functional teams
- Change Management Manage change so that it is sustained at individual and organizational level
- Project and Program Management Use balanced approach to practices & controls to execute successfully
- Change Capability Develop and lead high-performing teams to enhance change competencies
Prior to joining Hiscox Business Insurance as Head of Change, I was Global Head of Marsh's Program Management Office. Before that, I served financial services clients as Consulting Manager with Satori Consulting. Earlier experience included positions with Reed Business Information, McKinsey & Company, Arthur Andersen, and Best Western Hotels. I grew up near Frankfurt in Germany and have lived in New York City since 1998.
I hold an M.A. in Change Leadership/Organizational Psychology from Columbia University, an M.B.A. in Executive Management from Pace University, and a B.S. in Information Systems Management from New York University. Additionally, I hold Agile and Project Management certifications. In my free time, I teach Project Risk & Quality Management and Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning in New York University's School of Professional Studies.
My resume is here, please contact me to discuss senior leadership roles you are seeking to fill as Change Director, Head of Change, Head of Transformation, or Head of Strategic Projects. I am also open to interim assignments.
I hold an M.A. in Change Leadership/Organizational Psychology from Columbia University, an M.B.A. in Executive Management from Pace University, and a B.S. in Information Systems Management from New York University. Additionally, I hold Agile and Project Management certifications. In my free time, I teach Project Risk & Quality Management and Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning in New York University's School of Professional Studies.
My resume is here, please contact me to discuss senior leadership roles you are seeking to fill as Change Director, Head of Change, Head of Transformation, or Head of Strategic Projects. I am also open to interim assignments.
Last Update: November 8, 2022
