Vanessa Andris, M.S.O.D., is an international organization effectiveness and leadership development consultant and executive coach based in Washington, D.C.

Her primary client since 2000 has been the World Bank Group where she has worked across all regional, sectoral, and corporate vice-presidencies, managing directors and president’s offices; International Finance Corporation; the Multilateral Insurance Guarantee Agency; and the World Bank Institute. Her other clients include FAO, Pan-American Health Organization, MITRE, Homeland Security, Verizon, World Institute for Action Learning, American University, and Café Milano.

Working in Washington and internationally, Vanessa provides strategic design and delivery of processes for problem solving, new ventures, team development, governance, reorganizations, realignments, stakeholder engagement, intercultural communication, and leadership development. She does coaching, analysis, facilitates retreats and training, moderates international panels, and conducts live-broadcast interviews and workshops.

Vanessa received her M.S. in Organization Development and Change from American University/NTL, with Distinction, and a B. S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. She served as an adjunct faculty member in Organization Development at Trinity College in Washington, DC.

She is author of a series of leadership guides - Managing the Monumental, Political Economy: Plan Before Landing, Sustainable Development: The Elegant Survive, Managing Internal Change, Creating a Culture of Collaboration, Influencing Up, Fragile States, Intelligent Integration, 360:Learning Through the Eyes of Others, Operationalizing Gratitude, and Stay Well to Do Good.

She has also been published in the Washington Business Journal and International Journal on Knowledge, Culture, and Change.

Vanessa (Venetia) is a first generation Greek-American whose parents came to the U.S. at the close of WWII. She travels to Greece frequently for extended stays in her family home in the Peloponnesus, as well as visiting major cities and islands in Greece to advise and conduct research. She is a member of St. George Greek Orthodox Church, an 800-member community in Bethesda, MD, where she served as a Parish Board member and president of Philoptochos. She can be contacted at VanessaAndris@aol.com

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