Vetted Change Management Professionals

“HRBP/Employee Relations professional with Accenture and Clyde & Co experience, combining strong people analytics with risk-focused change management. Notably coded and analyzed four years of exit interview data to drive targeted retention and compensation actions across offices, and partnered with North America HR/Finance leadership on shared-services transition planning involving protected-class risk analysis.”

David Kroes

Screened

Executive HR & People Leader specializing in culture transformation, talent, and organizational development

Los Angeles, USA20y exp

“Operations/people-ops leader focused on early-stage, growth, and turnaround environments, with hands-on experience implementing UKG (HRIS) and Lever (ATS) to scale without adding headcount. At Niagen Bioscience, drove a 25% improvement in time-to-fill and cut administrative workload by 30% in 6 months, led a company-wide optimization initiative to reduce silos, and coached a VP of Finance into a successful CFO transition that included restructuring the finance org and upgrading key talent.”

Tara Munjuluri

Screened

Junior Software Engineer specializing in full-stack and AI systems

Ames, IA3y exp

“Backend-focused engineer with end-to-end ownership experience on internal platforms at John Deere, including a workforce and skills system that cut manual review time by 40%. Brings a strong reliability and compliance mindset across Java/Python microservices, AWS infrastructure, and production operations, and has also built an LLM-powered RAG system over 1M+ records with emphasis on grounded outputs and observability.”

“Engineering/technology leader from Ticketmaster who drove a domain-driven modernization strategy for legacy commerce platforms while launching new revenue features (add-on sales like merch/parking/hotels). Rebuilt and scaled teams post-COVID by reorganizing around business domains and implementing federated architecture governance, including a distributed-saga-based order orchestration approach that improved resilience and enabled partial-order success.”

“Strategic operator who localized and scaled a South Korean D2C colored contact lens brand in the US by building three flagship retail locations (LA/Miami), leveraging influencer-driven events, and then launching a wholesale B2B program now in 300 independent optometry offices generating ~$150K/month. Previously spent 6 years at a creative strategy agency (acquired by Accenture) delivering a $1M culture/service-standards transformation for AdventHealth using multi-format communications (film, art, learning design, conferences). Also runs a restaurant/food truck business and is an active creator (music, webcomics, podcasts).”

Daniel Bernhard

Screened

Director-level Manufacturing Operations leader specializing in electromechanical, MEMS, and biotech production

Emeryville, CA11y exp

“Operations/manufacturing leader who owned post-acquisition integration end-to-end, including site consolidation, technical transfer, and business systems alignment—delivering a 15-month multimillion-dollar program on time and 10% under budget. Experienced scaling a company from ~30 people to ~10x growth and driving public-company operational readiness; partnered with the CAO and external auditors to improve controls and remove quarterly shutdowns, increasing manufacturing capacity ~10% without added headcount.”

Faith Akinmola

Screened

Director-level HR Business Partner specializing in employee relations and workforce strategy

Alpharetta, GA8y exp

“People/HR leader with strong employee relations and people analytics experience who partners with senior leaders to build scalable leadership programs. Designed a mentorship program for newly promoted managers that increased stretch project participation by 20% and improved perceived support/buy-in, and has used attrition/ER/L&D data to drive hiring freezes, critical-role exceptions, and targeted recruiting strategies.”

Arnell Dandridge

Screened

Director of Talent Acquisition & People Operations specializing in global hiring and HR systems

Remote9y exp

“Global recruiting leader at a startup who manages up to 20 recruiters worldwide while personally owning executive searches. Known for fast, high-impact hiring (e.g., EVP Customer Success filled in ~21 days) and for building practical, low-cost recruiting operations improvements—contract-to-hire strategy with CFO, global scheduling governance with CEO support, and HRBP-led onboarding engagement to prevent post-offer drop-off.”

“Integration Management Office professional focused on M&A integration and human capital work, coordinating integration planning across 17 workstreams through deal close. Partners closely with executives (including a CHRO) by building practical tools like Excel workforce planning dashboards and establishing governance/SteerCo cadences, while operating with strong sign-to-close discretion and data privacy compliance.”

“People/HR leader who partners closely with senior leadership (e.g., VP of Operations) to run complex reorganizations end-to-end, combining strong program management (RACI, cadences, retros, 30-60-90 goals) with employee-relations rigor. Leverages people analytics and tools like Culture Amp plus compensation benchmarking to diagnose engagement/attrition drivers and secure targeted interventions (e.g., off-cycle increases). Also coaches leaders on Radical Candor and continuous feedback to improve performance management and PIP outcomes.”

“RevOps/strategy operator at Cognitiv reporting directly to the President, owning 30+ measurable outcomes across 8 corporate objectives. Known for building executive operating rhythms (Slack-driven weekly business pulse reporting) and driving cross-functional alignment across Sales, CS, Marketing, Product, and Finance. Delivered measurable growth impact (20% lift in auto growth progress in 8 weeks) by using red-teaming insights to reallocate marketing investment.”

“Infrastructure/operations engineer with hands-on IBM Power/AIX administration (LPAR/DLPAR, HMC, RMC) and PowerHA cluster failover experience, plus modern DevOps tooling across CI/CD, Kubernetes/Helm, and IaC (Terraform/CloudFormation/Ansible). Emphasizes controlled change management, drift prevention via Git-as-source-of-truth, and observability practices using Prometheus/Grafana.”

Tonya Jackson

Screened

Executive Supply Chain & People Leader specializing in ESG, product delivery, and corporate governance

Lexington, KY40y exp

“Angel investor (Bluegrass Angels) who advises early-stage companies on product and organizational design, with a background leading corporate back-office (finance/customer service) and supply chain. Proposed and implemented a Global Business Services/shared services unit at a large corporation, building the savings/ROI case and running quarterly progress reviews to ensure adoption and results.”

Alan Nguyen

Screened

Director-level HR & People Operations leader specializing in global people strategy and HR analytics

Fort Worth, TX12y exp

“Talent/People Operations leader who has managed 5–8 person teams and repeatedly rebuilt recruiting operations in high-volume, fast-growth environments. Known for implementing structured intake, interview SOPs/SLAs, and rubric-based evaluation inside ATS/HRIS systems—cutting time-to-fill from 30+ days to under 20—while also leading enterprise-wide systems rollouts like Lattice with strong cross-functional change management.”

Inman Breaux

Screened

Executive SaaS & AdTech CEO specializing in AI attribution and mobile growth

San Francisco, CA17y exp

“Mobile-tech entrepreneur building AppQ (mobile.appq.ai), an agentic mobile SDK that optimizes mobile UX in real time to improve Day 1/Day 7 retention by adjusting levers like ad frequency, difficulty, messaging, and artwork. Previously co-founded an SDK-led mobile ad network (invented push notification ads), scaled to 300K+ SDK integrations, and grew revenue from $7M in 10 months to $50M the following year before exiting in 2020.”

“Executive MBA candidate exploring entrepreneurship with exposure to the venture capital ecosystem (including an investor-focused conference). Highly committed to building a product from the ground up and uses authenticity, market fit, and personal expertise alignment as key criteria for pursuing new ideas.”

“Former founder/COO of Modjoul who spent 9.5 years building and scaling the company, including multiple pre-seed and seed raises and growth to 12M with Amazon. Brings a rare mix of operator grit, startup finance discipline, accelerator mentorship through CDL Wisconsin, and hands-on GTM/product launch experience with an 'all costs' founder mentality.”

“Built and deployed a production AI/ML SRE copilot that uses RAG over real-time Splunk signals plus deployment/runbook data to generate grounded incident summaries and next steps, cutting time-to-contact by 30%. Treats the knowledge corpus like a production dataset (quality gates, semantic chunking, metadata enrichment) and runs golden-dataset automated evals to ensure reliability, while partnering closely with ops/support leaders through discovery sessions and metric-driven demos.”

“HR/People leader (HRBP-style) who supports Product, Content, and Data Analytics client groups and partners closely with senior leadership on org design, talent strategy, and people analytics. Led a global reduction-in-force to meet budget goals, coordinating legal/benefits/outplacement and global communications while prioritizing empathetic execution and internal redeployment to mitigate risk and disruption.”

Tom Dinwiddie

Screened

Executive IT Leader specializing in global SaaS, cloud transformation, and M&A integration

20y exp

“Technology executive/CTO-type leader with experience at ALLDATA defining and operationalizing an executive-prioritized roadmap, scaling distributed engineering teams (including expansion in Mexico and India), and modernizing products onto a containerized Google Cloud architecture. Highlights include 99.96% reliability, 38% maintenance cost reduction, and strong security/compliance posture (CyberArk, ISO27001, SOC2, SOX).”

Kyle Bashy

Screened

Executive Engineering Leader specializing in cloud security platforms and enterprise applications

Remote, USA22y exp

“Owner and service provider of an IT practice exploring a transition into startup founding. Has spent ~15 years researching the VC/studio/accelerator landscape and evaluates new ideas through forecasting and stakeholder conversations, with a current focus on improving prospecting and qualified lead generation.”