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Strategy and Systems for Institutions and Enterprises.

Modernization advisory for organizations facing their most complex transitions.

Complexity is rarely the problem — most large organizations know exactly what needs to change. What stops them is scale: too many stakeholders, too much history, and mandates that outlast the leaders who set them. I work with federal agencies, global firms, and international programs to turn that kind of change into something that can actually be executed — and to build the systems that keep it running long after the mandate that created it has moved on. 

A diverse team collaborating around a table with documents and charts.

Modernization & Transformation

Enterprise Modernization

Organizational Design & Change Adoption

Organizational Design & Change Adoption

Leading modernization programs inside institutions where the operations are decades old and the cost of getting it wrong is public. This is the work I did for the Department of Defense, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. 

Organizational Design & Change Adoption

Organizational Design & Change Adoption

Organizational Design & Change Adoption

Designing the structures, roles, and governance that make a transformation hold — and preparing the people who have to live with it, so adoption isn't left to chance after go-live. 

Global Strategy & Market Execution

Market Entry & Expansion

Partnerships, Ventures & Public-Private Programs

Partnerships, Ventures & Public-Private Programs

Go-to-market strategy in emerging and developed economies: what the opportunity actually is, what it will take to reach it, and what has to hold true on the ground for it to work. 

Partnerships, Ventures & Public-Private Programs

Partnerships, Ventures & Public-Private Programs

Partnerships, Ventures & Public-Private Programs

Structuring joint ventures, public-private partnerships, and acquisitions — including strategic deployment frameworks for international development programs such as the Najafi 100 Million Learners Global Initiative. 

Risk & Regulatory Landscape

Partnerships, Ventures & Public-Private Programs

Risk & Regulatory Landscape

Assessing the regulatory, economic, and political conditions a strategy depends on — so the plan accounts for the environment it has to survive, not just the opportunity it's chasing. 

Typical Engagements

Modernization strategy and road mapping, organizational design, market entry assessment, and advisory to executive and program leadership. 

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