Chief of Staff · People Development · Organizational Effectiveness
From think tanks to startups to trillion-dollar institutions, I've spent 13 years facilitating strategy, coaching leaders, and building the people systems that make organizations work. I'm at my best in the room — and I'm looking for my next one.
Selected Work
Strategic Advisory, Product Ownership & Executive Recommendation
Fannie Mae · 2023
Some of the most important work a strategist does isn't building something, it's having the clarity to see when building is the wrong answer and the guts to end a misaligned project.
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People Development & Culture Design
Fannie Mae · 2021–2022
In the wake of Covid-19 we had a serious culture problem that was impacting business outcomes. I co-founded the Marketing People Council to address this issue. The programs we built were adopted by HR and scaled enterprise-wide and are still running without me.
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Strategic Facilitation & Informal Authority
Fannie Mae · 2026
I led leaders way above me in the org chart through a structured process to evaluate 2,000+ web assets. The website isn't the story. How I led with informal influence, designed a process to optimize everyone's expertise, and got us there is.
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People Analytics & Strategic Culture Work
Fannie Mae · 2021–2022
The top-line numbers were improving. The CMO wanted a good story, and I had one ready to tell. But it didn't pass the sniff test and I kept digging. Instead of a fluff story, I found the real issue and drove attrition to nearly 0 for our target top performers.
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Operations & Organizational Infrastructure
Fannie Mae · 2018–2021
Inherited a $12M budget that had run 30% over plan the year before. I took budget operations and managed to within 1% of target the following year, where it stayed for three years running while continuing to expand and scale capabilities.
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Chief of Staff, Research Leadership & Institutional Impact
Center for College Affordability and Productivity / Forbes · 2008–2014
Before I was legally allowed to work (as a 15 year old), I was learning the ins and outs of data and analytics. By twenty-two I was the de-facto Chief of Staff to one of the leading economists in the country. What we created together, the Forbes America's Best Colleges, changed how an entire industry evaluates itself.
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I grew up professionally in rooms I had no business being in and figuring out how to be useful anyway.
At fifteen I was doing data analysis and policy research alongside one of the country's leading economists. By twenty-two I was his de facto Chief of Staff, managing operations, preparing Congressional hearing materials, and representing him in Washington when he was unavailable.
At Fannie Mae I kept getting pulled toward the most important unfilled need in the organization — regardless of my job title. The Marketing People Council. The onboarding overhaul. The design operations turnaround. Managing the consumer mobile app. Leaders kept tapping me because I was the person they could count on.
Full Story →I'm looking for a Chief of Staff, Head of People Development, or Organizational Effectiveness role at a mission-driven company where I can build something real.