Executive Leadership & Development Coaching | High-Performance Team Development | Capital Projects Development & Delivery Consulting

Ampersand Consulting LLC provides individual executive & leadership coaching and capital project development consulting.  I am a registered Professional Engineer with nearly 40 years of diverse international corporate leadership experience, including several decades at the General Manager and Vice President level at Owner, Construction Management, General Contractor, Subcontractor, and Engineering organizations and a dozen years at the Senior Vice President / Managing Director level for the two largest global mining companies – BHP and Rio Tinto.

During my tenure with BHP, I led the BHP Project Centre of Excellence and the BHP Project Management Leadership Team and was a member of the BHP Group Investment Review Committee.  I was also a member of the Technical Office Leadership Team and the Minerals Americas Leadership Team.  I also led BHP's Technical Division activities related to the Petroleum division demerger to Woodside Energy.

Before joining BHP in 2017, I spent seven years at Rio Tinto in a succession of senior executive roles in the capital projects delivery organization.  I joined Rio in 2010 as Group Advisor, Capital Projects, and was elevated to Managing Director-Americas Projects in 2011.  Subsequent roles at Rio Tinto followed because of my ability to lead large owner capital projects organizations through change and successful portfolio delivery: Managing Director- Australasia Projects, Managing Director-Copper & Aluminum Projects, Managing Director-Iron Ore & Copper Projects, and Managing Director-Copper & Diamonds Projects.

I graduated from Penn State with a B. Architectural Engineering and earned MBA and MS- Finance degrees from the University of Colorado.  My Executive education includes Senior Leadership programs at the London Business School and Duke.  I also spent five years in the Global Executive Council for the Project Management Institute.