I am a Transformation and Change Management Leader with extensive experience delivering product development, digital transformation, and regulatory compliance initiatives in Fortune 500 firms and entrepreneurial environments. My approach ensures successful strategy implementation through effective Change Governance and Project Portfolio Management.
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.
As a Senior Change Leader, I am viewed as an integral partner to C-suite executives, enabling organizations to capture market 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, commitment, and stakeholder engagement.
Always striking a balance to people, processes, and technology, I establish capabilities that enable organizations to:
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.
As a Senior Change Leader, I am viewed as an integral partner to C-suite executives, enabling organizations to capture market 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, commitment, and stakeholder engagement.
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, value capture of projects
- Resource Management Rationalize strategic priorities, resources, benefits commitments
- Integration Management Activate matrix stakeholders to manage change organization-wide
- Project and Program Management Use balanced approach to practices & controls to execute successfully
- Change Capability Develop and lead high-performing teams
Previously, I was SVP Change Delivery with Hiscox, Global Head of Marsh's Program Management Office, Consulting Manager with Satori Consulting, Program Director with Reed Business Information, and Center of Excellence Leader with McKinsey & Company. 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. 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, contact me to discuss senior leadership roles you are seeking to fill as Head of Change, Head of Transformation, Head of Strategic Projects, Head of Project Portfolio Management, or Director of Change Management. Or perhaps simply for a discussion of the core building blocks for Project Portfolio Management and effective strategies for Change Management.
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. 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, contact me to discuss senior leadership roles you are seeking to fill as Head of Change, Head of Transformation, Head of Strategic Projects, Head of Project Portfolio Management, or Director of Change Management. Or perhaps simply for a discussion of the core building blocks for Project Portfolio Management and effective strategies for Change Management.
Last Update: May 20, 2022
