INDIGO PHEASANT 

For over three decades, I have crafted, led & executed significant organizational change, in business, government, education and youth services. Examples:

• Led the 2015 wholesale rebranding of Mouse as their Executive Director, led gut renovation & custom build-out of new Mouse HQ & test kitchen/ sandbox in NYC plus simultaneous move of entire curriculum delivery into the cloud, and led the 2018 merger of Mouse with Code / Interactive.  Restructured Mouse's operations in the Twin Cities, Chicago, and across California.

• Led the 2011 expansion of Year Up NYC to its second & larger site (in Brooklyn) as first-ever Chief Operating Officer for the unit, while collaborating within a rapidly expanding national Year Up system; was co-Interim Executive Director in NYC in 2012; on the team that partnered with SUNY so that Year Up students earned collegiate credit.

• Led the expansion of the Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship (NFTE) from six to twelve program offices as their first-ever National Program Director 2005-2010, including acquisition of two offices from other organizations (Dallas, Miami) and greenfield growth elsewhere (Philadelphia, Los Angeles, etc.), while coordinating with NFTE co-branded partner offices such as Atlanta and Cleveland, and ultimately spinning off the Pittsburgh office; led the launch of NFTE's national business plan competition; led the collaboration with Scholastic and with 50 Eggs Productions on the documentary film & book about NFTE, Ten9Eight.

• Led the 2004 transition of the Peter Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management to The Leader to Leader Institute.

• On the team at the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education (1999-2003) seeking to align & reorganize all 50-some public campuses as part of the 1996 Postsecondary Reform Act; on the team that restructured & re-accredited the entire Kentucky Community and Technical College System; on launch team of the Kentucky Virtual University.

• As a banker 1983-1991 in global shipping finance at Manufacturers Hanover, engaged in numerous corporate restructurings / redesigns across multiple constituencies & geographies – both for our clients and at the bank itself; was in the first cohort 1987-1991 at the bank's new subsidiary in Oslo, Norway; on the team that helped pioneer financing for new maritime technologies and for use of new financial instruments in the shipping industry.

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• Earned my doctorate in history at Johns Hopkins (1996), studying the nature & impact of rapid economic & technological change in late 18th- and early 19th-century northern Germany -- providing me with a broader theoretical framework and a deeper understanding of the vectors driving organizational change to the present day.