Iryna Lambrianides

About Iryna Lambrianides

I am an industry-accredited Chief of Staff and Strategic Initiatives and Operations Transformation leader with 12+ years of experience serving as a force multiplier for CEOs and executive teams across startups, SMBs, and global nonprofits up to $1B in revenue. I am known for building the operating infrastructure behind growth, including strategic plans, operating models, OKRs and KPIs, governance structures, and execution roadmaps across startups, SMBs, universities, and international nonprofits with multi-million-dollar portfolios operating in 60+ countries. Most recently, I have facilitated a workflow automation initiative that increased customer outreach velocity by ≈30x and built scalable go-to-market processes for a civic technology startup supporting nationwide campaigns.I am drawn to business transformation work because it sits at the intersection of strategy, operations, and leadership, turning strategic priorities into operating models, execution roadmaps, and business value.SELECT ACHIEVEMENTSCEO & C-SUITE SUPPORT: Advised executive leadership on enterprise restructuring by modeling 6 financial and operational scenarios on org structure and governance for 350+ programs.STRATEGY PLANNING & IMPLEMENTATION: Co-developed operating model & restructured enterprise operations staff, 60+ countries); established new enterprise IT operating model (6 departments).OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE: Cut recruitment-admissions cycle time by 38%; resolved 50+ process bottlenecks; designed 2 enterprise-wide processes for international travel and bank transactions. PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENT: Built enterprise scorecards, KPIs, and dashboards across 7 program delivery divisions, enabling executive and team oversight of programs grantees, 120+ countries).PROJECT AND CHANGE MANAGEMENT: Led end-to-end enterprise operations transformation (7 working groups, 3 countries), embedding change management that resolved 50+ process bottlenecks.PROPOSAL MANAGEMENT: Secured and supported $300M+ in sponsored funding by leading proposal process and compliance reporting.CAPACITY BUILDING AND HR: Facilitated development of job architecture for 30+ leadership functions by standardizing roles and career pathways to improve internal mobility and succession readiness, in collaboration with HR.I am always open to connecting with CEOs, founders, Chiefs of Staff, and strategy and operations leaders navigating growth, change, or execution challenges. Feel free to connect here on LinkedIn or email me at i••••••••@gmail.com

Experience

1. Fractional Chief of Staff, Business Development

   WeVote

   May 2025 — Present

   I launched and led a 10+ person business development team at WeVote, a civic technology startup, acting as a strategic partner to the CEO and driving business development, go-to-market execution, and organizational scale.ACHIEVEMENTS• STRATEGIC PLANNING and TEAM LEADERSHIP: Pioneered and built a 10+ person team and launched a business development strategy and OKRs dashboard to drive GTM execution at scale.• SCALING AND STRATEGY IMPLEMENTATION: Enabled early platform adoption across 125+ campaigns, contributing to an expected 10X adoption increase through targeted outreach, product marketing, and GTM execution, including development of operating rhythms and standard operating procedures (SOPs). • PROCESS OPTIMIZATION: Drove an anticipated ~30X increase in outreach velocity by co-creating a custom outreach process automation with Engineering that feeds merged internal and external data into pre-populated messaging templates and scalable mass messaging, replacing semi-manual steps.

Education

• Chernivtsi National 'Juriy Fedkovych' University, Ukraine

  Master of Arts - MA, English Language and Literature (major) and German Language (minor)

• Florida International University

  Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Curriculum and Instruction, International and Intercultural Education

  2014

• Chernivtsi National 'Juriy Fedkovych' University

  Bachelor of Arts - BA, English Language and Literature (major) and German Language (minor)

• Florida International University

  Educational Specialist, Curriculum and Instruction