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Kas Adams
Executive Chief of Staff and Operations Leader specializing in transformation and supply chain
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Chief of Staff and public-sector leader who has stood up new functions from scratch—hiring 26 people and building governance/processes across 8 locations—while navigating high-stakes regulatory stakeholders. In industry, implemented OKRs and performance systems (Leapsome) and led change communications to improve executive productivity and cross-team accountability.
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Key Strengths
- Built and led a new department function: recruited 26 team members across 8 distributed locations
- Established governance frameworks and operating processes for a new team
- Executive alignment via decision-focused briefings that translate operational complexity into actionable decisions
- Proactive risk/issue management (surfacing bad news early with options and pathways forward)
- Complex stakeholder management across regulatory and operational groups (National Parks and environmental regulators)
- Implemented OKR system with quarterly milestones to improve executive operating cadence
- Designed and rolled out performance review program (quarterly and annual) to improve transparency across teams
- Drove adoption of Leapsome, including executive training and organization-wide buy-in
- Change management under resistance from middle management; reframed concerns and facilitated solutions
- Balances strategy and operations through protected strategic time and delegation/empowerment to avoid bottlenecks
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