# Sydney Henriques-Payne Sydney Henriques-Payne is a remote worker on Himalayas, Managing Principal at Bridge & Ladder, LLC, based in United States. Source: https://himalayas.app/@sydneyhenriques-payn ```text Executive consultant blending policy, project management, and people strategy for impact. ``` | Detail | Value | | --- | --- | | Availability | Open to opportunities | | Location | United States | | Authorized to work in | United States | | Job categories | Principal, Policy Consultant, Director Of Project Management, Executive Coaching, Strategy and Business Operations, Talent Management and Development, Managing Director, VP Managing Director | | Skills | Executive Coaching, Fractional Senior Leadership, Strategy Consulting, Project Management, Product Development, Design Thinking, Curriculum Design, Stakeholder Management, Organizational Change Management, Policy Development, DEI Sourcing Strategy, Human Resources, Talent Acquisition, HR Operations, ATS, Microsoft Office, Vignette, KeySurvey, Taleo, Salesforce, JobScience, Namely, Justworks, Gallup, Miro, Asana, Training and Development, Google Workspace, Bridges | | Website | https://www.Bridgeandladder.com | ## What I'm looking for ```text I’m looking for an impact-focused organization where I can lead policy-to-product systemsbuilding, drive cross-team project execution, and strengthen people strategy—combining leadership coaching with measurable operational and DEIJ outcomes. ``` ## About ```text I’m a Managing Principal providing executive coaching, fractional senior leadership, and strategy consulting across communications, HR, and operations. I partner with leadership teams to build the systems, talent strategy, and operational clarity organizations need to scale—often during periods of change. Most recently, as a Sr. Consultant, Policy and Advocacy and Senior Director, Project Management at RISE, I’ve co-led end-to-end product and policy redesign, including member classification system integration tied to automating with Genesis Artificial Intelligence (AI) and supporting a corresponding revenue-generating product. I’ve also designed and delivered career readiness learning at CUNY (adjunct) and led people and culture strategy for a $60M philanthropic organization, launching continuous improvement, compliance, and DEIJ-focused operating frameworks. ``` ## Experience ### Managing Principal (current) Bridge & Ladder, LLC. Jun 2019 - Present ```text Provide executive coaching, fractional senior leadership (e.g., Chief of Staff and VP, People & Culture), and strategy consulting to clients across communications, HR, and operations. ``` Skills: Executive-Coaching, Fractional-Leadership, HR-Operations, Communications-Strategy, Organizational-Strategy, Cross-Functional-Advising, Client-Engagement ### Coach & Adjunct (Medgar Evers) Medgar Evers College (CUNY). Jan 2024 - Jan 2026 ```text Designed and delivered a career readiness course and facilitated workshops and events for student cohorts, including ongoing 1:1 coaching and direct student support. ``` Skills: Workshop-Facilitation, Student-Coaching, Curriculum-Audit-Redesign, Lesson-Planning, NACE-Competencies-Alignment, Resource-Development ### Senior Director - RISE LEE (Leadership for Educational Equity). Jun 2025 - Dec 2025 ```text Partnered with senior leaders to lead project management and core strategic/operational planning for the organization’s 2025 FY priority, including cross-team systems building. ``` Skills: Strategic-Planning, Project-Management, Cross-Team-Systems-Building, Member-Classification-Systems, Product-Development, AI-Integration, Revenue-Model-Scaling ### Interim VP, People and Culture PAF. Feb 2024 - Aug 2024 ```text Led People and Culture for a $60M philanthropic organization transitioning from outsourced HR to a mostly remote model (~100 staff, 12+ fiscally sponsored projects). ``` Skills: People-Operations, Board-Senior-Leadership-Partnership, Coaching-Plans-For-Founders ### Interim Chief of Staff Political Action Committee. Oct 2023 - Oct 2023 ```text Supported a rapidly scaling social enterprise on infrastructure building and systems development ahead of planned ~3x organizational growth ($20M/yr budget). ``` Skills: Organizational-Development, Change-Management, Executive-Coaching ### Interim VP, CSR Social Enterprise Tech Company. Mar 2023 - Jun 2023 ```text Partnered with executive leadership and the board to develop a corporate social responsibility arm, co-designing alignment and buy-in with internal and external stakeholders. ``` Skills: Stakeholder-Engagement, Impact-Team-Staffing-Model, Organizational-Design ### Deputy Exec Director, Strategy Ops National Innovation Service. Feb 2019 - Nov 2021 ```text Served on the senior leadership team overseeing strategic planning, initiatives, and special projects in the executive office, including end-to-end people operations across teams based in 10 U.S. cities. ``` Skills: Strategic-Planning, Operations-Management, People-Operations, Learning-Design, Organizational-Equity-Audits, Change-Management, Business-Development-And-Strategy ### Chief of Staff + Interim SVP The Future Company & The Future Project. Aug 2017 - Jun 2019 ```text Collaboratively oversaw an executive portfolio of incubating organizations and projects with budgets ranging from $12.5M to $25M, supporting business development and product strategy. ``` Skills: Strategic-Planning, Business-Development, People-Operations, Compliance-Operations, Operations-Management, Event-Management ### Sr. Director, Talent & Org Dev EP - Human Assets Team. Aug 2015 - Aug 2017 ```text Provided HR business partnering and executive coaching to support staffing model changes and management transitions across a multi-city portfolio (35+ people across 14 U.S. cities). ``` Skills: HR-Business-Partnering, Executive-Coaching, Talent-Acquisition, Workforce-Planning, SOP-Development, Recruitment-Strategy ### Assistant Director, Recruitment NJDOE. Jun 2013 - Aug 2015 ```text Advised and project-managed HR redesign initiatives for 600+ staff-member organizations within the NJDOE system, streamlining recruitment, selection, staffing, and budget/RIF processes. ``` Skills: Recruitment-And-Selection, HR-Redesign, Workforce-Planning, RIF-Budget-Management, Project-Management ### Recruiter & Candidate UX Lead DCPS. Jan 2011 - Oct 2012 ```text Managed selection policy and candidate application hotlines handling 2k+ weekly exchanges, while screening ~3k+ applications per year and hosting 15+ recruitment events annually. ``` Skills: Recruitment-Operations, Selection-Policy-Design, Event-Management ### Recruiter & Outreach Specialist American Board CTE. Oct 2009 - Jan 2011 ```text Created and hosted information sessions across national recruitment territories (55% travel in 10 states), growing the lead database by ~3k leads and building relationships with 59 partner LEAs and 250+ universities. ``` Skills: Stakeholder-Relationship-Management, Partnership-Development, Pipeline-Building ### Project Manager, CentroNía CentroNía. May 2009 - Oct 2009 ```text Project-managed student recruitment for a bilingual public charter school (~100 students), hiring and managing a 14-person team and overseeing translation + enrollment support with a $26,000 budget. ``` Skills: Student-Recruitment, Project-Management, Team-Leadership, Enrollment-Operations, Budget-Management, Bilingual-Support, Program-Coordination ## Education ### Johns Hopkins University Master of Science. Grade: 4.0 GPA (with distinction) ```text Master of Science program completed with distinction, graduating with a 4.0 GPA. ``` ### University of Pittsburgh Bachelor of Arts, English Writing and Communications - Rhetoric. Grade: Magna Cum Laude ```text Bachelor of Arts (Magna Cum Laude) with dual majors in English Writing and Communications: Rhetoric. ``` ### University of Pittsburgh Postgraduate Certificate, Community and Corporate Relations ```text Postgraduate certificate focused on community and corporate relations. ``` ### Association of Clinical Research Professionals (ACRP) Certificate, Human Subject Protection & Research Ethics ```text Certificate covering ethics and human subject protection, with a design-thinking component. ``` ### Human Resources Standards Institute (HRCI) Certificate, Diversity and Inclusion / Human Resources Management ```text Certificate coursework in diversity and inclusion and human resources management. ``` ## Tech stack - Salesforce - Bridge - Justworks To contact Sydney, message them from this profile with a Himalayas employer account: [Hire on Himalayas](https://himalayas.app/hire). ## People also viewed - [Vivian Garcia-Tunon](https://himalayas.app/@viviangarciatunon): Founder, VGT People Advisory - [Linda Najok](https://himalayas.app/@lindanajok): Founder, People Alchemy Consulting - [Tameka Green](https://himalayas.app/@tamekagreen): Global Head of Culture, Belonging, and Inclusion (CB&I), Chegg - [Christopher King](https://himalayas.app/@christopherking): Managing Partner, TheoAdvisors - [Jamela Irvin](https://himalayas.app/@jamelairvin): Director of Human Resources, The Opportunity Agenda - [Joyce Doyle](https://himalayas.app/@joycedoyle): Founder & Principal Consultant, Aureum Solutions, Inc. - [Derek Bostic](https://himalayas.app/@derekbostic): Principal, Talent & OD, Humana / CenterWell Pharmacy - [Katie Greatorex](https://himalayas.app/@katiegreatorex): Executive Coach & Org Effectiveness, Autodesk - [Ivan W Hall](https://himalayas.app/@ivanwhall888): Senior Principal HR Analyst, Gartner - [Roshan Kindred](https://himalayas.app/@roshankindred): Chief Diversity Officer, PagerDuty