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I retired after 35 years with a proven track record of leading large-scale organizational change, building high-performing teams, and mentoring future leaders through complex challenges. I am considered a decisive leader, proactive and strategic communicator, and for bringing a people-first, inclusive approach to everyday challenges.

The moments in time I remember most are those where I could use coaching to help employees in stress or distress, on mid-level managers driving organizational transformation, on other senior leaders who needed a new way to think through perennial problems. I am passionate about using my professional experience to help coach leaders and organizations improve how they solve complex problems, lead through change, and communicate effectively, with a focus on mission results and personnel development.

I earned a Political Science and Managerial Studies Bachelor's degree from Rice University in 1989 and an MBA from George Mason University in 1999. I am currently completing my coaching coursework in both Executive and Life Coaching at Robbins-Madanes Training. I anticipate receiving my board certification in Fall 2025.

I am a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion and served as the Executive Champion for several employee resource groups during my career at CIA. I have also served on special teams that prepared leadership advisory reports on improving leadership and diversity in leadership positions. I am completing a four course certificate in Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion from eCornell's School of Industrial and Labor Relations. I complete the final course in August 2025.

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Positions

Dean, Sherman Kent School, CIA's analytic schoolhouse

2022-2025

Managed hundreds of staff and contract instructors and instructional experts, delivering hundreds of in-person courses on analytic tradecraft, expertise-building, and leadership principles. Led innovative and accelerated change effort to update content, instruction, and speed to course delivery.

Director, Office of Global Issues, CIA

2019 — 2022

Led a global team of several hundred analysts covering economics, energy, health, humanitarian crises, technology, and strategic issues. Directed the office’s high-tempo response during COVID-19, balancing surging demand with workforce wellbeing. Recognized staff with a Meritorious Unit Citation for excellence in pandemic-related work. Drove a strategic reduction in mission scope and sustained morale and productivity through a major organizational restructuring.

Chief of Analysis, Counterintelligence Mission Center, CIA

2019 — 2022

Managed a high-performing team tackling sensitive counterintelligence issues. Helped define leadership roles during agency-wide modernization and led the team through cultural change and expanding mission scope. Produced impactful, high-stakes analysis requiring precision, discretion, and sound judgment.

Deputy Director, Office of Public Affairs, CIA

2010-2013

Advised three agency directors on external communications, public engagement, and media strategy during times of crisis and transition. Served as spokesperson and strategist on sensitive events, modernized communications processes, helped navigate the agency through public scrutiny and internal loss, wrote public and private speeches, and drove cultural change in the office.