About

I have built my career on developing people and organizations. An expert on people and culture, I have led the People function at two companies. I have consulted in McKinsey's Strategy and Organization practices; founded and led Google's central learning and development program; worked in talent management at Standard Chartered Bank; and built and led People and Organization Development and Public Affairs at Agoda.com, the Asia-based subsidiary of the Priceline-Booking Holdings group, the world's leading online travel platform, and led the People function at APL Group and learning and leadership development at Aegis Ventures.

My education includes an M.B.A. in strategic management and health care management from Wharton and a Ph.D. in the humanities from the University of Chicago. I have served on the faculties of Princeton University, U.S.C., Pomona College, Nanyang Business School, Yale-National University of Singapore College, and Hult International Business School. I am a graduate of the Hudson Institute of Coaching and am certified as a coach by the International Coaching Federation.

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Academic Experience

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Education

BUSINESS:

I received my M.B.A. in strategic management and health care management from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

HUMANITIES:

I hold degrees in literature from Haverford College (B.A.), the Université de Poitiers (D.E.A.), and the University of Chicago (M.A., Ph.D.)

LANGUAGES:

French: I am fluent in French, having completed a Diplôme d'études approfondies (littérature française et comparée) at the Centre d'Etudes Supérieures de Civilisation Médiévale de l'Université de Poitiers and taught French language and literature at Princeton University, the University of Southern California, and Pomona College.
Italian: Conversational/reading knowledge
German: Conversational/reading knowledge

Spanish: Currently studying
Mandarin: Beginning conversation
Latin, Old and Middle English, Old French: Reading knowledge

Honors and Awards

I have received honors, grants, and awards from a number of organizations, including

The American Academy in Rome
The Wharton School
The College of Physicians of Philadelphia
Pomona College
The National Endowment for the Humanities
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
UCLA
Princeton University
The Whiting Foundation
The Rotary Foundation
The University of Chicago
Haverford College
The St. Andrew's Society of Philadelphia

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