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John Hartley

Executive chief of staff and strategic operator specializing in enterprise transformation

Embrace Home LoansYale UniversityNewport, RI20 Years ExperienceExecutive LevelWorks On-Site

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Leader with 20 years spanning international nonprofit, academic, and business environments, focused on solving hard coordination and scaling problems. More recently led AI-driven modernization in the mortgage sector, including loan processing and underwriting transformation, bridging executives, operations, and technology to deliver meaningful efficiency gains and adoption in historically change-resistant teams.

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Key Strengths

  • 20 years across international nonprofit, academic, and business leadership
  • Leads complex coordination and alignment in fast-changing environments
  • Cross-functional modernization leadership across sales, operations, technology, finance, and underwriting
  • Applies systems thinking and design thinking to ambiguous organizational problems
  • Drives AI-enabled process transformation in mortgage operations
  • Built stakeholder buy-in for resistant underwriting teams during AI adoption
  • Strong governance and implementation design for modernization initiatives
  • Delivered significant time savings and faster turnaround through workflow automation

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Experience

SVP, Enterprise InitiativesEmbrace Home Loans · Jan 2025 – Jan 2026
Head of Talent Development & Executive ConsultantEmbrace Home Loans · Jan 2023 – Jan 2025
Executive ConsultantEmbrace Home Loans · Jan 2020 – Jan 2023
Strategic Initiative LeadershipYale University · Jan 2008 – Jan 2022
Founding Executive DirectorPathways for Mutual Respect · Jan 2006 – Jan 2020

Education

Yale Universitydoctorate, Sociology
Yale Universitymaster, Sociology
UC Davisbachelor, International Relations & Economics

Skills

Strategic PlanningCross-Functional LeadershipProcess ImprovementAnalyticsRecruitingArtificial IntelligenceChange ManagementCompliancedata analysisStrategic ExecutionEnterprise AlignmentCEO LeverageExecutive Portfolio GovernanceOperating Model TransformationExecutive Decision Support

Languages

English

Certifications

Prosci Change Management

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