Bold Moves.

Lasting Impact.

Career Highlights

Brightside Collective | 2025 -present

CO-FOUNDER

Founded and scaled a nature-forward social impact organization transforming vacant urban land into regenerative, biodiverse green spaces.

  • Urban Resilience Leadership: Transformed eight urban sites (including a 3,500 sq ft pocket forest) into biodiverse, regenerative spaces advancing climate resilience and community well-being; recognized regionally for advancing joyful, community-led greening.

  • Cross-Sector Partnership Development: Forged 10+ partnerships with corporations, developers, and public agencies to unlock land, funding, and resources for public benefit.

  • Civic Engagement: Mobilized 300+ residents through activation events, workshops, and volunteer programs promoting native planting, environmental stewardship, and civic pride.

  • Thought & Organizational Leadership: Co-produced international design workshop and publication positioning Detroit as a model for community-driven ecological transformation; secured early funding and service contracts to establish governance systems and proof of concept for scaling impact.

Giroux Impact | 2021 -present

FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL STRATEGIST

Leads a global strategy, innovation, foresight consultancy guiding organizations on complex societal challenges through systems thinking, strategic design, and innovation.

  • Strategic Visioning and Design: Directed three- to five-year strategic vision and planning frameworks for major foundations and data-for-policy institutions - shaping agendas on immigration, climate migration, and data governance; developed North Star visions, roadmaps, and theories of change aligning programming and advocacy to measurable outcomes.

  • Immigration & Climate Migration Strategy: Developed the North Star vision and theory of change for a major foundation’s migration program, defining operational components, investment priorities, and implementation pathways to guide the foundation’s support for mobility and resilience initiatives.

  • Institutional Transformation: Led organizational transformation and rebrand initiatives for global social-impact organizations, creating value propositions and cultural frameworks that strengthened clarity, purpose, and alignment.

  • Inclusive Governance & Leadership: Designed inclusion and belonging frameworks for multinational organizations across 10+ countries, establishing maturity models and impact metrics adopted enterprise-wide; developed leadership programs that improved retention and embedded equity and resilience.

At NewGlobe, my work centered on systems thinking, foresight, and cross-functional innovation. This role deepened my conviction that impactful policy and institutional change requires insight, empathy, and intelligent systems that evolve with people and context

  • Led a global research and strategy division (50+ team-members) across six countries, helping governments and education systems scale high-quality learning for millions of students.

  • Built frameworks that helped us understand complex education ecosystems, identify opportunities for partnership, and guide decisions on market entry, strategy, and product design.

  • Partnered with academics, technologists, and product teams to ensure innovations were grounded in real community contexts, and scalable across diverse geographies.

  • Worked with teams to design mobile learning solutions to maintain educational continuity during COVID, and created a large scale and real-time data system that strengthened executive decision-making and operational resilience.

NewGlobe | 2017-2021

VICE PRESIDENT

At ReD Associates, I worked at the intersection of anthropology, strategy, and innovation - advising Fortune 100 companies and social impact organizations on complex cultural and behavioral challenges. This work strengthened my belief that organizations (whether public or private) succeed when they can understand human behavior, adapt intelligently, and act with strategic clarity.

  • Led multidisciplinary strategy projects across the automotive, media, and education sectors, translating deep human insight into growth strategies, product innovation, and organizational transformation.

  • Developed frameworks that helped executives make sense of complexity, align organizational culture with strategic intent, and build resilient, future-ready teams.

  • Directed human-centric design research for a digital learning game supporting children in conflict-affected regions

  • Partnered with Duke Corporate Education to design systems-thinking programs for global leaders.

    Clients include: Ford, NBC, Pearson , Save the Children, Bridge, Viiv

ReD Associates | 2014-2016

SENIOR CONSULTANT

  • TEI Research Project: Spearheaded the development, launch, and management of the Targeting Energy Infrastructure (TEI) research project, driving innovation in energy risk analysis.

  • Energy Infrastructure Database: Created and analyzed over 10,000 incidents in the Energy Infrastructure Attack Database (EIAD), conducting extensive case studies and fieldwork in multiple countries to assess risks to energy assets.

  • Strategic Partnerships: Formed key research collaborations with prestigious institutions such as the Paul Scherrer Institute, Fund for Peace, US Institute of Peace, and the Swiss Civil Protection Department. Facilitated and led collaborations across different stakeholders to create shared understanding and problem-solving.

  • Industry Advisory: Utilized research insights to provide crucial advice to oil and gas companies, guiding them on how to navigate and mitigate social risks in conflict zones.

  • Societal Resilience Research: Conducted in-depth research on societal resilience, risk management, and critical infrastructure protection, developing a unique model based on complex adaptive systems and convergence theory for crisis monitoring via social media.

  • Foresight and Horizon Scanning: Engaged in large-scale foresight and horizon scanning projects with Swiss government, US Department of Energy, and Singapore government to examine and anticipate future scenarios, global challenges, and societal response.

Center for Security Studies (CSS) / ETH ZURICH, 2007-2014

RESEARCHER / SENIOR RESEARCHER