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Bianca Garcez

Experienced Business Consultant and Chief of Staff

€1,100/day
London, GB
8-15 years

Average response time: 1 hour

About Bianca

• Strategic-thinker and creative problem-solver, with a unique set of skills combining Chief of Staff experience, 7+ years of Consulting, start-up advisory and a trained Design-Thinking facilitator.
• Solid experience in managing complex projects with multiple stakeholders and managing leadership communications, board communications and investor relations.
• Media trained strong communicator and influencer who is comfortable sharing information formally or informally at all levels and able to articulate a clear vision and communicate effectively through storytelling.
• Trained and passionate about OKRs and helping cross-functional teams challenge themselves and achieve their goals.
  • Portuguese

    Native or bilingual

  • English

    Native or bilingual

  • Spanish

    Fluent

  • French

    Conversational

  • Italian

    Basic

Remote only
Primarily works remotely

Experience

  • POLLINATE (FINTECH SAAS SCALE-UP)
    Chief of Staff
    June 2022 - Today (4 years)
    London, UK
    Driving the narrative and providing executive level business updates for the Board.
    •Actively participating in the board of our invested travel-tech company start-up, overseeing concept to launch.
    •Co-designed new operational model across business development, legal and operations for international expansion.
    •Designed and implemented structured business development processes (including reporting structure and cadence), along with IT migration to new CRM platform.
    •Worked with executives and senior leadership to set high-level team strategies and smart goals that fit the organization's objectives and mission.
    •Project manager to action plans from senior leadership (OpCo) across different departments and functions, promoting teams collaboration and driving end to end execution.
    •Crafting external and internal strategic communications for the leadership adjusting tone and content level from junior to senior audiences (including other executives, board and press releases).
    •Driving strategic communication and defining storytelling for new product launches and international expansion.
    •Coordinated and driven all pre-sales business development cycle, providing strategic alignment across teams, and ensuring progress and clarity at each stage.
  • SMARTWAY.WORK (START-UP)
    MBA Intern
    June 2021 - September 2021 (3 months)
    Tuscany, Italy
    Designed model for quantifying sustainable social impact of remote-work mobility to small Italian villages.
    •Generated leads and market opportunities, crafted pitches and presented to prospective customers and partners.
    •Refined the brand identity, tailoring the marketing strategy for each channel and different personas.
  • Deloitte LLP
    VP of Strategy and Innovation (Deputy Chief of Staff)
    June 2019 - September 2020 (1 year and 3 months)
    London, UK
    Owned the re-design of organizational development and learning experience by developing, managing and measuring training programs, including new coaching program to entire business line aligned with culture change initiative.
    •Led, designed, planned, executed, and implemented business-unit and regional cross-functional strategic initiatives supporting senior stakeholders in strategic planning, annual budgeting, quarterly strategy refresh, analyzing data and making recommendations and ensuring timely receipt of inputs for key decisions.
    •Coordinated, standardized, and ran monthly business reviews and other key exec meetings and workshops. Organized and coordinated all leadership events to different audiences.
    •Strategic partner to leadership: developed thought leadership and contributed to development of vision & strategy.
    •Project managed the rollout of high-profile cross-functional and organization-wide projects across EMEA.
    •Translating company strategy into departmental objectives, setting department priorities and liaising with different senior leaders on strategic planning, alignment and coordination.
    •Identified a need for streamlined regional, national and service-line strategies. Defined role requirements and appointed by regional leadership to own strategy with service-line leaders from 7 business units across EMEA.
    •Aligned with change management goals, engaged operational team in executing leadership strategy plan by embedding Growth-Mindset through OKRs for culture change and performance improvement, empowering team of 200+ to drive and take action on strategy plan on a business unit level while aligned with global strategy. Resulted in 70% compliance of implementation plan.
    •Facilitated Design-Thinking ideation sessions for Deloitte's Open Innovation Forum between employees and clients to foster customer-company collaboration.
    •Prepared internal communications both for the board and all team members with focus on mission, leadership vision and strategy implementation.

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Education

  • MBA
    ESADE Business School
    2022
    MBA
  • Law Bachelor
    University of São Paulo (USP)
    2011
    Law Bachelor

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