Expertise in:
- Large organizational leadership and management, including strategic planning and performance-based metrics (i.e., Department of Defense)
- Human capital management
- Infrastructure, energy, environment, and safety management
- Ethics, legislative and regulatory compliance
- Risk and crisis management
Describe your industry experience:
- Executive leadership and direction of large, complex organization, including strategic planning and establishing meaningful, measurable goals and metrics to support the corporate vision
- Policy setting and oversight of a diverse set of Defense activities (infrastructure, energy, utilities, safety, facilities (new construction and maintenance and repair), environmental compliance, housing, privatization, economic redevelopment, and test & evaluation
- Communication and collaboration at the federal and state level, including congressional engagements, state governor and agency engagements, and media interactions
- Human capital management including promotion and succession planning, performance-based management, training, diversity and inclusion policy, and growing the right talent for the time
- Advisory boards; vetting and nominating board members and ensuring ethical culture and conduct
Describe your functional experience:
Functional expertise lies in optimizing real estate footprint to support operations; infrastructure modernization; economic redevelopment; privatization and outsourcing; energy and waste management; housing management; safety and environmental compliance; environmental planning; and natural and cultural resource conservation.
Describe your key business transactional experience:
- Executive leadership on large federal land acquisitions (air, land, and sea)
- Focus on safety to reduce incident and injury
- Negotiating at the state governor and federal-level multi-billion dollar construction projects
- Contract oversight to reduce costs and eliminate unnecessary redundant expenses
What are the most important skills you bring to a corporate board?
- Recognizing people as the most valuable asset of any organization. Brings a leadership style that engages the “whole team” effort to develop a vibrant and motivated workforce, to solve tough problems and deliver results.
- Listening and working as a team; works well with others
- Reading financial statements and assess corporate performance
- Maintaining a keen awareness of ESG issues
- Focus on safety to reduce incident and injury
- Managing risk and responding to crises as they occur
