With over twenty years of experience in managing organizational improvement projects covering all phases form conception and conceptualization to the implementation stage (even the dismantling of temporal structures created to support these projects) Ms. DeBrigard has been Senior Partner at Executive Development Interactive (EDI) for the last ten years. The scope of her work includes funding, implementation, follow-up and navigation of all stages in change management activities and improvement processes.
Besides her design and teaching assignments in EDI, she manages the follow-up of major Action Learning projects developed to introduce change in client organizations worldwide. She conducts and facilitates sessions during assignments, tracks and provides support in the implementation phase. One of her areas of expertise is Executive Coaching for managers at all levels of the organization. Clients include leading Wall Street players, General Mills, Ford Motor Company, General Electric Latin America, Construtora Andrade Gutierrez, Brazil, Mercedes-Benz Brazil, and the Colombian Mission to the United Nations.
Her administrative and coordination background includes successful management of the overall modernization strategy in the Attorney General?s Office and the Prosecutor General's Office of Colombia. This includes the implementation of more than 30 employee-developed projects, originated in a process reengineering effort she managed with an international consulting consortium including Price Waterhouse Coopers.
She is also the head of EDI's pro-bono practice, a consulting practice in capacity building and organization development, oriented to create a network among individuals, not-for-profit organizations and corporations in the United States and abroad to raise awareness of, and involvement in, the critical social and economic issues of the people of Colombia, as well as to enhance the opportunities for the Colombian diaspora residing in the United States to provide their talent, time, expertise and financial resources to better the quality of life in Colombia.
Ms. DeBrigard has also taught political science at undergraduate level for which she received a recognition as the best teacher in surveys conducted among the students, three semesters in a row.
Ms. DeBrigard holds a BS in Political Science from Los Andes University in Bogotá and a Master's Degree in Public Administration and Public Policy from the School of International Affairs at Columbia University with a concentration in project management, financing and evaluation. Ms. DeBrigard works in English, Spanish and conversational Portuguese.