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Most people in this space advise on AI adoption. I have deployed it. At a Fortune 100 AI hardware company, I built a proprietary AI coaching agent inside Microsoft Copilot, A/B tested it against an external vendor across a multilingual global team before rolling it out to 2,000 employees across 7 global cities. The result: 15% ROI improvement in core competency learning. The manager development program I designed alongside it delivered a 48% competency lift in a population that had never been trained before. That is the recent chapter. Here is the foundation it sits on. A decade in Indonesia: writing MOUs with the Ministry of Education, leading UN coordination across 121 infrastructure projects serving 3.5 million people after the Indian Ocean Tsunami, in Bahasa Indonesia, during active civil conflict. A decade in Singapore: representing a $312M global organization to ministers and senior officials across education, social policy, and civil society throughout Southeast Asia. Twenty years of operating with full autonomy across 33 countries, six languages, and every kind of organizational complexity. That foundation gives me something most executives in this space do not have: I can read a room in Jakarta and a boardroom in Silicon Valley. I know what AI adoption looks like when it lands in a linguistically diverse, cross-cultural workforce. I also know what it costs when it does not. Here is what I know from running the experiment, not just advising on it: speed without behavioral science, change management, and cross-cultural fluency produces burnout, misalignment, and trust erosion, every time. The organizations getting this right have someone who understands both the technology and the human system it is landing in. That person is rare. I am the founder of Brava Global Advisory, where I built the VOICE Framework™, a proprietary leadership assessment now live at voice.bravaglobaladvisory.com, measuring the five dimensions of globally fluent leadership. I am a Board Director at Justice Revival, a former Board Advisor to the Center for Creative Leadership, and the host of A World of Difference, a top 3% global podcast with 153,000 downloads across 100 countries. If you are scaling AI-enabled leadership development, building global people strategy, or navigating organizational transformation where lived cross-cultural operating experience is a genuine requirement: let's talk. [email protected] | bravaglobaladvisory.com | voice.bravaglobaladvisory.com
Recruited following a podcast conversation: the CEO heard my thinking on organizational culture and AI and invited me in. Strategic advisory role helping technology companies identify cultural blind spots and mitigate retention risk through data-driven assessment. • Partner with CEOs and CHROs on organizational effectiveness strategy, using people analytics to measure psychological safety, trust architecture, and leadership capability gaps before they become retention crises • Design culture transformation roadmaps for companies in hypergrowth, translating assessment data into succession planning, change management, and organizational design interventions • Architect leadership development interventions that turn cultural diagnostics into manager effectiveness gains and measurable organizational health
Boutique transformation consultancy helping global enterprises bridge AI speed with human systems expertise. Advisory practice serving boards and C-suites on organizational effectiveness, workforce transformation, and the change architecture that determines whether AI investments deliver. Founded on a thesis proved at a Fortune 100 company: speed without behavioral science, change management, and cross-cultural fluency produces burnout, misalignment, and trust erosion, every time. The organizations getting this right have someone who understands both the technology and the human system it is landing in. That person is rare. • Founded Brava Global Advisory bringing 20 years of C-suite advisory across six continents and six languages to leaders navigating the gap between AI speed and human system readiness • Developed and launched the VOICE Framework™, a proprietary leadership assessment measuring five dimensions of globally fluent leadership, now live at voice.bravaglobaladvisory.com • Published board-level AI governance guidance with the Silicon Valley Directors' Exchange: "Transform from the Top: The Board's AI Governance Priority," co-authored with Mary Lee Sharp, April 2026 • Advise CEOs and boards on workforce transformation, AI-enabled talent strategy, succession planning, organizational design, and executive bench strength across global enterprise and private company contexts • Architect of culture transformation roadmaps that translate people analytics and assessment data into change management interventions with measurable organizational health outcomes • Speaker to 3,000 executives across 11 countries on talent strategy, intercultural intelligence, and AI-enabled leadership development • Host of A World of Difference, a top 3% global podcast with 153,000 downloads across 100 countries, Spotify 2025 Most Shared Show
Role created for me by the COO to drive enterprise-wide talent transformation during hypergrowth (NYSE: SNX, $62.3B, #64 on the Fortune 100). Senior advisor to President and COO on organizational effectiveness, leadership capability, and culture transformation for 2,000+ employees across APAC, EMEA, and the Americas during critical AI infrastructure scaling. • Enabled business conditions for a $1B AI hardware revenue milestone by architecting a manager development program across 7 global cities that increased manager competency 48% in the UK pilot market and effectiveness 15% globally • Improved leadership development ROI 15% by building an AI coaching agent in Microsoft Copilot delivering just-in-time executive coaching at scale; A/B tested my agent against a vendor solution with global teams before enterprise rollout, positioning the organization ahead of the AI workforce transformation curve • Designed enterprise-wide succession planning architecture across APAC, EMEA, and AMER using people analytics; localized for cultural context in 4 languages, identifying critical bench strength gaps and mitigating retention risk during hypergrowth • Built global leadership summits integrating live facilitation, AI-enabled simulation, and peer learning labs across 7 cities, delivered in English and Mandarin; achieved a 9.5/10 satisfaction score in China and a 6% lift in global manager satisfaction
Following a keynote in Fremont, the Executive Assistant to the President told me I should be working at Hyve and made the introduction. The COO created this role, the company's first enterprise leadership development function, around my expertise. Every role in my career has come this way: through recognition, not application. Built the people strategy and team from the ground up, working directly with the President, COO, and SVP of Business Operations. Owned all talent development for 2,000+ employees across APAC, EMEA, and AMER. • Drove a 1,900% increase in leadership development engagement over 12 months by securing a strategic partnership with the Center for Creative Leadership and co-designing the Key Leadership program tied directly to business KPIs • Advised regional leaders on succession planning strategy; partnered across functions to localize content for cultural context, building organizational bench strength during rapid growth
Brought in by the CEO, who created the role for me to architect client relations strategy and go-to-market approach across two business ventures during a high-growth phase. Drove 300% growth in customer acquisition in three months and 400% acceleration in sales by diagnosing operating model gaps, redesigning the client engagement strategy, and clarifying execution across product, sales, and client success. Short engagement by design: hired to solve a specific strategic problem, and did.
Recruited by a trusted colleague and global peer to bring organizational effectiveness expertise to their executive coaching platform. Coached C-suite executives on leadership effectiveness, organizational design, and self-awareness using evidence-based behavioral assessments including MBTI, Enneagram, Birkman, Working Genius, and CliftonStrengths. Facilitated executive alignment sessions that informed strategic decisions on talent, structure, and leadership development. These diagnostics remain core tools in my enterprise organizational effectiveness work today.