Seattle, Washington, United States
I’m inspired by what mission-driven organizations can achieve when they operate strategically, efficiently, and ethically. My work centers on enabling global development foundations, nonprofits, and companies to achieve mission impact and organizational success. Now living in Seattle, I was previously based in Washington, DC and London. I’ve performed 53 short-term assignments in 27 countries across the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. With strengths in finance, strategy, operations, and business development, I excel in addressing cross-functional challenges and opportunities. I have led teams, functions, and special initiatives. Through curiosity, creativity, and partnership across global teams, I foster effective collaboration among diverse contributors.
Led the three functions of strategic planning, management, and reporting; monitoring, evaluation, and learning (MEL); and operational support to the Board of Directors. Led the development and implementation of strategies that generate mission impact, robust funding, enhanced organizational capacity, and a healthy company culture while fulfilling additional leadership roles. Externally, served on the working group and the locally led development subcommittee at the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN). In this role, I collaborated with representatives from 15 of the largest global nonprofits on initiatives that promote innovation and accountability in U.S. aid funding.
Led planning, management, and measurement of the organization’s 3-Year Strategy to advance good governance, women’s leadership, and food security in Latin America, Africa, and South/Southeast Asia • Created tools, templates, and practices that operationalize the strategy. Facilitated strategic decision-making and optimized resource allocation. • Evaluated and communicated quarterly progress with KPIs and qualitative information, collaborating with workstream owners to improve outputs and outcomes. • Supervised the Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) team, an internal service provider supporting proposal design, active projects, and organizational learning. • Led design and execution of Counterpart's Local Partner Funding Metric initiative.
Led organization's finance and accounting functions during 90-day CFO transition period
Delivered business consulting services and operational support to international development NGOs, companies, and projects to improve processes, increase efficiency, diversify revenue, and win new business • Approach: Explored, structured, and delivered responses to complex challenges, while engaging individually with each client to ensure that solutions are effective and context appropriate. • Services: Strategic advisory to executives and managers. Cross-functional business process improvement and work stream facilitation. Personalized staff training and skills development. Business development support for clients’ market-level and proposal-specific needs, focusing on USAID, USDA, and U.K. donor programs. • Illustrative role: TechnoServe’s Compliance & Risk Advisor (2019-2021) for the U.K.-funded Technical Assistance Facility of the Commercial Agriculture for Smallholders and Agribusiness global program.
Led support team responsible for worldwide subcontracting and regulatory compliance across a $650 million portfolio of UK- and EU-financed aid programs in emerging markets and countries in conflict. August 2016-April 2017: Concurrently with above role, appointed by the CEO to lead DAI’s central business support function in Kenya, focused on operational effectiveness, process efficiencies, and legal, regulatory, and tax compliance.
Provided strategic planning, financial management, and business operations assistance to DAI corporately and to our in-country implementation partners. Scope included long-term initiative management and targeted short-term assignments, in areas encompassing organizational change, business process improvement, financial modeling, mergers & acquisitions strategy, market demand segmentation, work planning, and quality assurance. Served as Finance & Operations Manager for new DAI strategic initiative to target corporate clients in the Oil & Gas sector.
Progressively expanding responsibilities in project accounting, financial operations, and contractual compliance. Concurrently, performed special assignments to support particular corporate priority projects.
Led financial and accounting management and supported strategic planning and execution to further YPFP’s mission to foster the foreign policy leaders of the future. Monitored and reported organization's cash flow, actual spending vs budgeted spending, and financial planning. **Find out more about this incredible organization at www.ypfp.org