Ashoka Changemakers

I owned strategy, budget, and delivery for the platform operation behind Ashoka Changemakers — a program serving 10,000+ social innovators across more than 40 countries — and led the team that ran it.

What I did. I built and led a distributed team of seven across five countries — Brazil, Mexico, the US, Ukraine, and Nigeria — hiring deliberately from the Global South and managing fully remote across time zones, languages, and cultures. I created a governance council of senior leaders from across the organization: the accountability structure that let a 40-country program run without central micromanagement. I designed it, staffed it, and reported into it quarterly.

Fortune 500 delivery. I delivered partner programs end to end for T-Mobile, HSBC, Johnson & Johnson, Prudential, and Taco Bell — including rebuilding T-Mobile’s support operation mid-project when the technology vendor failed, and still launching on schedule.

I also owned a company-level OKR and managed a portfolio of five technology products, including a GDPR compliance effort and two platform migrations.