With over 30 years of industry experience, Valarie excels in leading teams and individuals through technology and organizational transformations. She specializes in fostering leadership growth, innovation, and team engagement within diverse and global teams, supporting leaders at all levels, including newly promoted and C-suite members. Her proficiency in tackling diversity and inclusion and adapting to business trends, makes her an invaluable asset for enhancing leadership capacity, team cohesion and organizational effectiveness.
Valarie’s expertise is rooted in software development, where she has led international teams in creating digital applications and services across multiple platforms and industry sectors. She has held executive positions at AT&T, Cisco Systems, Marriott International and S&P Global. Her development repertoire spans from delivering mobile and web applications, reservations and point of sale systems, to employing machine learning to translate support sites into 9 languages. Her leadership included managing teams based in 17 different countries with a broad range of product delivery responsibilities from concept and user experience testing, to prototyping and scalable customer delivery.
Whether she’s working with individual leaders or teams, Valarie is committed to an experience that embraces curiosity without judgement, trust without limits and courage without doubt; an environment that fosters authenticity, accountability, awareness and growth mindsets.
