Jacob Hamalian

Panorama Strategy is a social impact consultancy. Responsibilities included leading internal and external partners on strategy development, stakeholder alignment building, facilitation, landscape analyses, data gathering, and data analysis. Notable projects and responsibilities included:

• Leading a team that hosted, facilitated, and designed a 70-person, 4-day workshop for the second-largest global foundation focused on strengthening the impact of clinical trials.
• Leading a team that designed and launched a global interfaith coalition focused on leveraging the relationship between faith and media leaders to strengthen civil society
• Co-developing a strategy and governance structure for two global coordinating bodies for procurement and supply chain efforts in low- and middle-income countries. Participating stakeholders included major donor governments, UN agencies, multi-laterals, and global foundations.
• Designing and conducting a landscape mapping and analysis of early-stage social entrepreneurship in the U.S for a major global foundation.
• Designing and leading a process mapping and process improvement project for a global, multi-stakeholder, scientific review process.
• Managing people, advising, and coaching internal consulting staff, project teams, and external contractors.
• Managing budgets and timelines to meet financial objectives.

Partnered with various local businesses to provide consulting services, including the creation of strategic frameworks, business plans, coaching, and fundraising tactics. Businesses served included: a childcare business, multiple churches, a dance company, a restaurant, a web shopping platform, and a women’s apparel shop.

Wide-ranging responsibilities for a start-up, client-services consulting firm including project management, business analysis and data analytics, client deliverable creation, change management, strategy creation, business development, and strategic planning. Multi-industry experience in healthcare, economic development, social impact, manufacturing, financial services, retail, and tech. During my time with the team, firm revenue grew by nearly 250%. Streamlined client operations by implementing process improvements and organizational restructuring. Major projects and responsibilities included.

• Led the creation of a 10-year enterprise-level strategy for $300mm annual revenue portfolio company focused on employment for at-risk populations
• Co-designed and led HR taskforce to develop a Global Talent Model for $8 billion annual revenue manufacturer.
• Co-developed growth strategy for mission-based hospital network service line.
• Drafted charter and helped launch unified governance body for 2nd largest healthcare provider in the state of Wisconsin.
• Facilitated design of 10-year strategic plan for regional human rights non-profit.
• Researched and developed a board assessment tool inclusive of DEI objectives.

Collaborated with the principal professor to design, teach, and grade 2 MBA leadership classes.

Leading within a matrixed organization, partnered with local community leaders to address the specific challenges faced by youth ages 0-30 in an under-resourced area of Milwaukee. Responsibilities included overseeing the development and implementation of programs to empower and support personal and educational growth, coordinating community resources, building partnerships, and providing strategic direction to create a positive impact on the lives of youth and young adults.

• Designed, led, and executed programming for ages 0-30, serving between 20 and 200 individuals a week.
• Managed a team of 40 volunteers and 1 employee.
• Led community engagement efforts for the community center.
• Organized and hosted 2-6 community events annually serving between 200 and 800 people at each event.

• Provided customer service and support to faculty and students in media design and production
• Provided support and troubleshooting for technical problems with classroom technologies
• Designed classroom technology setups in support of learning objectives

• Supported legislative and advocacy efforts aimed at Congress regarding the Middle East, Fragile States, Child Soldiers, Sustainable Development Goals, and Aid Effectiveness
• Drafted World Vision Fragile State Transition Models in Economic Development and Education
• Managed a budget for the Fragile States Initiative
• Authored World Vision submission to the USAID handbook on Feed the Future initiatives
• Drafted strategic memoranda and relationship agreements between World Vision and corporations, government agencies, other NGOs, and private foundations