Executive Certificate
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Management and Leadership
Executive Certificate
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Strategy and Innovation
Executive Certificate
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Technology and Operations
Advanced Certificate for Executives
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Management, Innovation, And Technology
Bio
Gretchen is a senior Growth and Operating executive within Federal industry, with mid-market to multi-billion dollar company experience across public and private firms. A data-driven problem solver, she engineers rapid results in situations requiring growth, process improvement, or wholesale change.
GROWTH LEADER
Experienced industry executive, board member, and military officer with bias for action, comfortable with ambiguity, and who learns something new every day. Three-time leader of corporate Growth teams and three P&Ls in mid-market to multibillion-dollar firms. Creates value by analyzing and energizing company strategies, strengthening business infrastructure, and spearheading transformative sales multiples. Integrative thinker/dot-connector driven by broad background across diverse portfolios, geographies, and market areas; experience in public, private, and private equity-owned business models. Underpins the above with 20 years Air Force and Special Operations knowledge management, technology, and analytics in complex, fast-changing environments. Top Secret clearance. Advanced Executive Certificate in Management, Innovation, & Technology from MIT Sloan.
BOARD DIRECTOR
Credentialed by National Association of Corporate Directors. Chair of the National Council for Women in Defense, with 21 chapters across the US, from C-suite to new talent. Serves on Board of Directors for the National Defense Industrial Association which represents 1,600 corporate and 85,000 individual members. Chairs Strategy Committee for STEM for Her. High EQ -- applies growth, governance, and analytic acumen combined with a distinctive female veteran viewpoint (half of 1% of the US population). Candid, ethical adviser to management and peers; cultivates teamwork and promotes clarity of vision, direction, and goals.
ANGEL INVESTOR
Regularly assesses talent, financials, and market potential of start-ups and new technologies/products/services; "pitch session" judge and mentor.
