Tina Dao

About Tina Dao

Where Builders and Visionaries find their unique path—because legacy isn’t built with a cookie cutter approach.\"We call ourselves architects because we believe that great organizations need the creativity of an artist with the precision of an engineer.As a Success Architect and Liberated Leaders\' CEO, I bring more than 30 years of leadership experience at companies like Amazon, Fitbit, and Walmart to the growth stories of North Carolina businesses. As the daughter of a serial entrepreneur, I chose to focus my own entrepreneurial journey on tenacious, driven, and caring people like my father—entrepreneurs and business owners who are not only brilliant at what they do but care deeply about how their businesses support their customers, employees, suppliers, and communities. They\'re conscious capitalists building significant companies that matter.My approach is hands-on and collaborative. I\'ve intentionally built and developed the Liberated Leaders team to work this way—assembling Success Architects and Success Artisans who embrace a micro-fractional philosophy where we work WITH clients, not just tell them what to do. We\'re breaking new ground in how this work gets done, blending strategic thinking with roll-up-your-sleeves execution. Whether you\'re scaling up, fueling competitive advantage, or planning succession, we bring the operational rigor I learned at Amazon, Fitbit, and Walmart—companies that mastered scale—combined with the nimbleness that growth-stage businesses require.

Experience

1. CEO Transformation Strategist, Success Architect & Business Advisor Fractional COO

   Liberated Leaders

   Aug 2023 — Present · Hickory, NC, US

   As founder and principal, partnering with business owners and decision-makers to ease the burden of company leadership and embrace the discipline needed to create long-term value.Leverage startup to Fortune 1 company experience—scaled appropriately to help privately held companies transform performance across product R&D and design, development, and engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, operations, sales and distribution, and customer service.

Education

• MIT Sloan School of Management

  Artificial Intelligence: Implications for Business Strategy

• Baker University

  MBA, Business

  2000 — 2002

• Baker University

  B.S, Business Management

  1998 — 2000

Skills

• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Product Lifecycle Management
• Program Management
• Operations Management
• Strategic Planning
• Change Management
• Presenting to Senior Management
• Portfolio Management
• Vision Development
• Transformational Leadership
• Process Optimization
• Leadership Initiatives
• Roi Analysis
• Operational Excellence
• Lean Thinking
• Technology Implementation
• Competitive Processes
• Systems Improvement
• Operational Quality
• Revenue Enablement
• Practice Management
• Team Management / People Management / Staff Management / Staff Training
• Project Management
• Quality System
• Startup Development
• Software Project Management
• Hardware Development
• Information Technology
• Plant Management
• Customer-Facing Enterprise
• Customer Engagement
• Client Relations Skills
• Department Budget Management
• Operating Budgets
• International Business Leadership
• Infrastructure Development
• Proposal Development
• Contract Negotiations
• Project Timelines / Implementation Timelines
• Application Integrations