Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
My background is a combination of senior and executive leadership in systems engineering and operations, HR, DEI and corporate responsibility, and social enterprise. No matter the industry space, what I do best is build strong relationships/partnerships and agile systems that magnify the effectiveness of people coming together to do good in the world. In that climate change is the greatest global threat to humanity today, I am committed to prioritizing climate action in what I do however I can. 💡 People-problem-solver: The types of problems, challenges, opportunities that most enliven me are often the most complex, i.e. those that involve facilitating a diversity of people towards shared ends. I love leading through facilitation, collaborating with, and inspiring people to do and be their best. ⚙️ Systems-oriented: My background and my natural inclination is to take a deeply root-cause, sustainable, and iteratively improving approach to tackling challenges/opportunities by designing and implementing principle-based systems that support desired behaviors with measurable and accountable efficiency and effectiveness in mind. 🚀 Builder/entrepreneurial: For a people- and systems-oriented person, I like to move quickly and decisively. I'm impatient with "ideas guys". I love actually building, developing, growing, evolving—actualizing real results and impact in real time. My experiences and qualifications include: • Building systems change from the ground up • Anti-performative corporate Diversity, Equity & Inclusion + Impact • Strategic people/HR leadership • Systems thinking and process design • Private equity, investor & key partner relations • Public speaking and teaching/instruction
Helping combat climate change by decarbonizing the built environment. I work on the business so others can work in it. I oversee all corporate functions from people, finance, operations, and marketing.
Socially-minded brewery serving award-winning beer and Detroit-style pizza in the gorgeous Chilliwack, BC. I provide strategic oversight of people & operations (40-50 seasonal and full-time staff), finance, capital projects, and overall business planning and health. Our 3-5 year plan includes BCorp certification and embarking on a roadmap to Net Zero and beyond.
Primary responsibilities driving rapid early-stage growth after opening post-COVID into a recession and a declining beer market: • Built and evolved HR, bizops and finance systems from the ground up • Identified and hired an exceptional management team • Developed business & financial analytics to activate data-backed growth-stage decision-making • Oversaw finance & financing • Strategic oversight and development of our management and ownership team
Vancouver-based fintech company I built DEI & Impact across the business at Bench through designing and building 5 key areas: 1. Systems change through Business Partnership: Building and assessing our systems and assumptions for inequity by business-partnering at every level and in every area of the business—from product design to recruitment to performance metrics to governance and on. DEI wasn't simply an HR phenomenon. It applied to literally every part of Bench. 2. Education: Empowering leaders and teams to take full responsibility for driving DEI in their roles—not about an isolated DEI committee for the sake of optics and relinquishing responsibility. This supported by regular Training & Education for leadership and company-wide. 3. Belonging & Representation: Building a culture and environment that serves and supports folks with marginalized identities so they can show up as themselves at Bench everyday. This is about not just building inclusivity, but genuine belonging. This led to the highest Belonging score in the history of Bench (>90%), 7% to 35-40% women in Engineering juniors and seniors, and 35-46% women in senior leadership. 4. Sparking a movement of change: Tracking our successes, our failures, and our learnings. It was about not only changing Bench, but shaping the financial services sector on the whole. 5. DEI & Impact Team: I built a growing and evolving team of DEI business partners and practitioners, along with building the operational and analytics infrastructure to support. For quarterly updates on what was activated through the function, team, and culture I built, check out Bench's DEI page.
My particular focus at Modern Craft was on improving the people, process, and operational functionalities of marketing teams. In this role, I designed and implemented new organizational structures and developed supporting processes & tools to increase customer-centricity, efficiencies, cross-functional integration, and staff empowerment into how marketing teams operate. Using extensive discovery and research involving surveys, in-person interviews, and working sessions, I mapped out marketing planning & execution workflows, built detailed processes, and defined role clarity across teams. I also co-designed and co-implemented an onboarding and training roadmap for enabling more equitable, trusting, and collaborative ways of working in teams. In all our work, Modern Craft was determined to provide highly empathic yet pragmatic strategic and operational support.
Private equity advisory firm specializing in reducing investment risk for start-ups and growth stage companies and their investors. In my role, I provided people organizational support, operational infrastructure support from accounting to HR, and administration of customized financing structures and government sponsored tax programs and benefits. I also served as the Corporate Secretary for two start-up companies during their initial rounds of funding.