Lila Schallert-Wygal

About Lila Schallert-Wygal

Mission-driven executive, strategist, and technologist with over 20 years managing products, programs, and people alongside business development and marketing. I drive product, design, and delivery practices with high empathy, equity, and outcomes. I’m passionate about inclusive teams, lean product engineering, responsible tech, and measuring what matters. I enjoy hands-on co-design, from operating models to service design to empowering user experiences. I believe in building understanding before solutions, defining guiding principles to empower agile decision-making, and charting paths for cross-functional teams to learn fast and accelerate impact. I enable clients and people to achieve their goals leveraging my experience growing start-ups, embedding innovation across enterprises, and managing portfolios, products, and partnerships.

Experience

1. Partner Director

   Thoughtworks

   Dec 2024 — Present

   Manages global portfolio, overseeing the account lifecycle from strategy to sustainable outcomes• Leads continuous improvement through lean metrics, team coaching and long range planning• Improves operating models with integrated strategy, design, engineering and emerging tech• Increases ROI by facilitating rapid product engineering from discovery to adoption• Drives business and talent growth by shaping solutions and accelerating performance

Education

• Macalester College

  Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Sociology