Paul Schaefer

Trusted Enterprise Delivery Partner | Organizational Transformation | Portfolio Governance | Technology & Business Alignment

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

About

I help organizations navigate business and technology change by improving execution, strengthening governance, and aligning teams around strategic priorities. Throughout my career, I have partnered with business and technology leaders across Fortune 500 and highly regulated organizations to deliver complex transformation initiatives, modernize operating models, and improve organizational effectiveness. My experience spans pharmaceutical, financial services, retail, manufacturing, media, and technology environments, with a focus on turning strategy into measurable outcomes. I am often brought into situations where organizations need greater visibility, accountability, and coordination across teams, stakeholders, and initiatives. By establishing clear governance, improving execution discipline, and creating operational transparency, I help organizations achieve more with the people, processes, and technology they already have. Areas of focus include: • Enterprise Transformation & Operational Modernization • Portfolio, Program & PMO Leadership • Governance & Delivery Excellence • Business & Technology Alignment • Organizational Change & Stakeholder Engagement • Digital Product & Platform Delivery • Executive Communications & Strategic Planning • AI-Enabled Operational Improvement My passion is helping organizations turn strategy into execution and build sustainable capabilities that continue delivering value long after the initial transformation is complete.

Experience

  • Delivery Manager at Perrigo Company plc
    Apr 2026 - Present · 3 mos

    Brought on to stabilize in flight program during the implementation phase

  • RTE at GSK
    Dec 2025 - Present · 7 mos

  • Senior Program Manager at Mastercard
    Feb 2024 - Dec 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Enterprise Coach at Morgan Stanley
    May 2020 - Jun 2023 · 3 yrs 2 mos

    In my capacity as an Agile Coach, I played a central role in driving transformative initiatives within Wealth Management. This involved overseeing the initiation of new fleets, consisting of scaled teams of teams, and multiple squads as contributing teams. As part of this initiative, I delivered comprehensive training sessions for Product Owners and Scrum Masters. I conducted workshops focused on story writing and Behavior Driven Development (BDD), establishing guidelines that allowed us to gauge team progress using Lean Agile metrics, ensuring predictability, quality, and optimized workflow. Additionally, I provided strategic guidance to product leadership, emphasizing the measurement of success through outcomes using agreed-upon Organizational Objectives and Key Results (OKR), and fostering a holistic understanding to align the efforts of all contributors beyond individual team outputs. In another capacity, I served as a coach for a chatbot development squad, concentrating on the creation of a platform and models for Natural Language Processing (NLP). This innovative team leveraged the capabilities of AI and Machine Learning (ML) to deliver predictive responses in a conversational mode. My collaboration extended seamlessly to an off-site ontology update team, ensuring accurate hierarchies in the data, thereby enabling the models to operate in a supervised manner with optimal efficiency. This collaborative effort contributed significantly to the success of the chatbot development squad.

  • Agile Coach at John Deere
    Jan 2020 - May 2020 · 5 mos

    Provided daily coaching for two Scrum teams during the offsite startup whole team dojo, guiding them through a immersive phase of transition and growth. Conducted workshops to solidify Scrum concepts and introduced advanced Lean mindset techniques. Delivered intentional coaching for teams and provided role-based support for Scrum Masters and Product Owners.