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Brooks D. Organization Architect & Transformation CoachBD

Brooks D.

Organization Architect & Transformation Coach
  • Suggested rate
    €2,381 / day
  • Experience15+ years
  • Response rate100%
  • Response time1 hour
The project will begin once you accept Brooks's quote.
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Location
South Lake Tahoe, United States
Remote only
Primarily works remotely
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Skill set
Brooks in a few words
For over 20 years, Brooks Darrah has advised and coached people in organizations of all sizes to achieve measurable results and lead happier, more meaningful work lives.

Brooks is recognized as an expert in transformational change and team collaboration, which emerged from firsthand management experience, consulting leadership, and academic research. She has led major change programs and leadership development initiatives for organizations such as Hershey, NIKE, Genentech, Toyota, AECOM, Sony Pictures, and the City of Los Angeles as well as several start-up and middle market companies.

Brooks draws upon this wellspring of experience and knowledge to co-design custom strategies with her clients that are aligned to their goals. Brooks’ clients have found her evidence-based tools and supportive approach to be invaluable in their journeys to greater success and satisfaction.

Brooks is a Certified Change Management Professional (CCMP™) and Certified Prosci Change Methodology Practitioner, which adds significant value to leaders and teams seeking to make positive changes in their work lives and organizations. In addition, she holds certifications in a variety of performance instruments, such as DiSC, Five Behaviors of a Cohesive Team, EQi 2.0, Myers-Briggs (MBTI), Creative Problem-solving Profile, Cpi260, Hogan, and Korn-Ferry’s 360.

As a business leader in Fortune 500 media and entertainment companies, Brooks held a broad range of roles in product development, operations, business development, and technology. Brooks launched operations for and led three major feature film production companies while based at 20th Century Fox and Sony Pictures Entertainment. She also managed product portfolios for top Hollywood film directors and producers and contributed as a creative producer to films such as The Nightmare Before Christmas for Tim Burton and Titanic for James Cameron.
Experience
  • DarrahDhillon Strategic Advisors
    Managing Partner
    CONSULTING & AUDITS
    December 2017 - Today (7 years and 6 months)
    Las Vegas, United States
    DarrahDhillon is a strategic advisory firm focused on complex business transformation, including M&A, acceleration, strategic growth initiatives and turnarounds for Private Equity and Venture Capital investors, start up founders and Fortune 500 leaders and their teams.

    Our firm excels in guiding strategic change, leadership and team performance, and investment advisory.
    - We guide Senior Executives to optimal business outcomes when faced with complex change, strategic growth challenges and struggling initiatives.

    - We help leaders and their teams develop sustainable new behaviors, capabilities and ways of working needed to elevate business performance.

    - We equip VC and PE Investors with rapid foresight and actionable intelligence into team and execution risk for optimal investment decisions and performance.

    Brooks Darrah and Gurpreet Dhillon, Managing Partners, have 40+ years of combined experience helping senior business leaders successfully navigate high stakes, high risk change from end to end, bridging the often fatal gap between a solid transformation strategy and its execution.

    We use a multidisciplinary, holistic approach to look at all aspects of your organization and propose unique, tailored plans to prepare your people to work in new ways. These new ways of working could be in response to a shift in services an organization offers, merging of two teams, moving to digital or agile, or another business-critical pivot.

    We can create the transformation strategy, prepare plans, align leadership, coach internal change agents, engage stakeholders, and/or execute all workstreams supporting the people, process, and/or technology aspects of your change initiative.

    Our clients include leaders and teams across all functions within Fortune 50, Global Fortune 500, mid-market growth companies, start-ups, and PE/VC firms.
  • Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
    Adjunct Faculty
    EDUCATION & E-LEARNING
    August 2019 - October 2022 (3 years and 3 months)
    Malibu, CA, USA
    Learning Group Consultant within Pepperdine's top-ranked Master of Science in Organization Development program supporting faculty and students with field consulting engagements, student learning contracts, and coaching student teams.

    Provided mentorship and support to 6 students through their program coursework, thesis research, and consulting projects.

    Facilitated design and delivery of numerous global client engagements to enable students to learn how to consult to organizations in org design, development, and change.
  • Accenture
    Transformation Coach for Future State, part of Accenture
    BIOTECH
    April 2020 - May 2021 (1 year and 1 month)
    Oakland, CA, USA
    Future State is a different kind of consulting firm - skilled in the craft of design doing. We are practical, connected, innovative, and human-centered. We enable the extraordinary visions that positively impact the world. We achieve this by working with bold leaders in leading and growing companies to help them realize their Future State. We work with global organizations to ensure people are the center of focus to achieve lasting change. We specialize in innovation and transformation, leadership and culture, and enablement and readiness: from executive alignment, to managing complex changes, building process excellence, and developing great teams. We show up every day with the sole purpose of making an impact.
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Education
  • PhD, Human and Organizational Systems: Collaboration and Innovation
    Fielding Graduate University
    2014
    PhD, Human and Organizational Systems: Collaboration and Innovation
  • Mini MBA, Business Administration and Management
    Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
    2021
    Mini MBA, Business Administration and Management
  • Master of Arts
    Fielding Graduate University
    2011
    Master of Arts, Human Development: Creativity and Authenticity
  • Master of Science
    Pepperdine Graziadio Business School
    2004
    Master of Science, Organization Development
  • Bachelor of Arts
    University of Southern California
    1990
    Bachelor of Arts, Drama, Magna Cum Laude