Danielle Mercer Clark

About Danielle Mercer Clark

I am an Ops and Programs leader who focuses on creating inclusive and effective teams…

Experience

1. Director Business Operations and Programs

   Microsoft

   Sep 2022 — Present

   Lead leadership team semester planning and strategic portfolio of ops excellence programs, ensuring strong collaboration across teams around the globe and effective management of a $1.3B budget. Despite a difficult economic climate, our leadership team is driving Thriving Employee Signals results that are 8-10 points above the company average on most dimensions, and at or above on all. Manage the BizOps and Priority Programs Team that orchestrates the change management, readiness, landing and execution of our strategic initiative portfolio, including current efforts to up-level systems foundational to improving our people, process, and tech effectiveness through adoption of intelligent routing, Copilot (ChatGPT), Chat technologies, and more. Our global team supports the Azure Core, Windows, and Developer businesses with approximately employees in 52 locations across the globe.

Skills

• Leadership
• Strategic Partnerships
• Sustainability
• Volunteer Management
• Market Research
• Project Planning
• Advertising
• Community Outreach
• Data Analysis
• Analysis
• Event Planning
• Team Building
• Non-Profits
• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Management
• Philanthropy
• Project Management
• Management Consulting
• Social Media Marketing
• Community Development
• Coaching
• Event Management
• Social Media
• Fundraising
• Contract Negotiation
• Team Leadership
• Proposal Writing
• Public Speaking
• Marketing
• Strategy
• Policy
• Marketing Communications
• Grants
• Leadership Development
• Strategic Communications
• Business Strategy
• Public Relations
• Training
• Corporate Social Responsibility
• Program Management