Shawna Walsh

Led the Organizational Development (OD), Professional Development (PD), and Strategic Initiatives (SI) workstreams for a $40M, 5-Year USAID project

• Directed project planning, KPI alignment, performance measurement and impact stories
• Supervised and mentored 25-50 cross-functional staff and consultants in a hybrid, matrixed, environment
• Advised USAID leadership on operating models, organizational design, succession planning, and workforce strategies based on identified needs and change priorities
• Led data-driven OD interventions with USAID leadership including strategic planning and OKRs, leadership alignment, DEIB, employee engagement, and operational efficiency
• Leveraged insights and strategic recommendations into high-impact executive presentations and stakeholder briefings
• Designed and delivered competency frameworks, leadership coaching, performance systems, onboarding, and training programs for a global workforce
• Engages key stakeholders to develop and operationalize USG and Agency strategies, policies, conferences, convenings, and high-level events based on identified needs
• Integrated meaningful integration of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) in all programming

Led OD Strategy for the DEVELOP project supporting workforce transformation and change initiatives

• Designed and facilitated leadership retreats, employee engagement strategies, and organizational structure realignment
• Synthesized data from pulse surveys, interviews, focus groups, and analytics to drive insights, craft stories of change, and inform executive decisions
• Designed and executed collaborative planning processes and stakeholder engagement strategies to inform major policy, strategy, programmatic, and operational decisions and coinciding measurement
• Working closely with stakeholders, Shawna ensured an integrated and evidence-based approach in identifying, designing, delivering, and evaluating OD interventions based on articulated needs to advance organizational effectiveness, operational efficiency and cohesion
• Developed best practices to improve organizational performance

Led strategy and organizational transformation consulting for mission-driven clients, including C-Suite and Board-level engagements

• Developed and delivered strategic planning processes, performance evaluations, organizational assessments, and change management strategies
• Designed job architecture, succession planning, and talent strategies for global organizations
• Managed cross-functional teams and complex multi-stakeholder change initiatives
• Spearheaded the design and facilitation of multi-stakeholder convenings, workshops, and retreats
• Designed and acted upon mixed-method organizational assessments, identifying and fulfilling change priorities
• Drove revenue growth and client acquisition, securing high-value consulting engagements

Co-founded a high-impact consulting practice for SRI Executive and scaled it.

• Shaped the service offerings, methodologies, and systems for the consulting practice
• Led consulting engagements in strategy, governance, OD, and performance management
• Provided executive coaching and transition support, including org design and succession planning
• Coached and mentored junior consultants
• Designed a unique approach to conducting performance evaluations at senior levels, involving personal and board buy-in based on a co-created set of competencies.
• Led teams to conduct a strategic formative evaluation, or deep dive organizational assessment, and leverage insights for evidence-based strategic planning or change management around organizational structure, culture, operating model, skills, or key programmatic shifts.

Conducted independent statistical evaluations, designed conflict resolution training programs, and facilitated qualitative interviewing to shape PeacePlayer's global leadership model and evidence base.

• Developed USAID's global health workforce transformation framework
• Co-facilitated, designed, and evaluated over 100 OD and PD interventions, impacting USAID's Global Health Bureau and Field Missions

Planned and executed high-level global events and press conferences, including the G20 Financial Ministerial Summit and the IMF-World Bank Spring and Annual Meetings.

Managed multi-national education programs for 2,700+ youth; led staff hiring, training, and logistics.