Global Executive 

Accomplished executive, offering 20+ years of experience, backed by proven track record in building and leading diverse teams in the US, Europe and Asia. 

□ Business Strategy. Expertise in aligning specific department strategy with broader business objectives, including short- and long-term forecasting, budget development, cost management, and stakeholder relations. 

□ Operational Excellence Leverages 6 Sigma skillset and a diverse background in executive leadership to drive process improvements, and enhance agility, resiliency, and integrity of enterprise-wide operations. 

□ Global Perspective. Global mindset derived from working, travelling, and living across 15+ countries. Adapts and integrates into diverse cultures and international environments with the ability to navigate varying businesses. Multilingual skills in English, Hungarian, Russian, and Bulgarian. 

□ Transformation & Change Leadership. Extensive experience partnering with executive teams to drive business growth and rally teams around a mission. 

□ Leadership Effectiveness. Team-oriented leader with commitment to championing, motivating, and partnering with colleagues and team members across functions. Active listener who values diverse input and considers all perspectives in key decision making. Mentor and coach invigorated by the opportunity to support the development of high-potential talent

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLS 

Head, K-12 Education Institute Strategy and Planning - New York (2020 - 2022) Reimagined holistic approach to K-12 experience that provides children with challenging, knowledge rich and immersive programs that are inquiry-based and collaborative for Success Academies in NYC - 47 schools, 20,000 scholars from low-income backgrounds. Developed a multi-year strategic plan for SA Breakthrough Initiative, set and executed long-term and short-term goals and objectives for the Education Institute. Implemented new Organisational design to support successful delivery of the key priorities, enable growth and scale SA success in 5 years. Participated in Envisioning a Nationally competitive K-12 Program, designed standard work for new content design process, out of school learning model that foster strong work habits, scholar thinking. Defined design phase for Developing Educators better, faster and more sustainably. Designed a standard process for fiscal and reporting compliance with multi million dollar private grants. Created process to enable Data-driven leadership. Identified and implemented key success measures that should be tracked and analysed to ensure maximum return on project investment. Helped develop Scholar Preparedness Index 2.0. Developed and published a dashboard that provides ongoing status update, risk assessment and business intelligence. 

SA Talent Management Analysed and synthesised Employee Engagement Surveys, both qualitative and quantitative results. Prepared executive level reports that promoted dialogue, and prioritised focus areas. Identified a process to advance the work of the Teacher Retention workstream, providing leverage to workstream leaders and stakeholders.

GENERAL ELECTRIC GE 

Corporate Experienced Commercial Leadership Program Manager - Fairfield, CT (2010) Responsible for managing the Leadership Program including talent acquisition, on-boarding, and training. Managed project allocations, performance evaluations and helped develop individual career path designs. Coordinated work rotation designs with key stakeholders. Commercial and Communications HR consultant - Fairfield, CT (2008) Helped redesign key corporate level HR processes around talent acquisition and high performance talent evaluation based on key performance metrics. 

6 Sigma Leader - Tokyo, Japan (2002-2004) Led and coordinated 6 Sigma initiatives and key projects across multiple GE businesses in Japan. Led Green Belt and Black Belt certifications across GE Corporate Japan. Led GE Women's Network.