Sharlene Louise (professionally, Sharlene Hardin)

A 40-year operations, program-management and portfolio-governance executive, MIT xPRO-certified COO, and co-founder of OperationsON. Scroll her career as one continuous flight.

At nine, a machine did exactly what she told it. She signed the front of the check first, co-founding businesses before any title on an org chart. Then she built the systems that run enterprises: Warner Bros., Lionsgate, Ingram Micro, Blizzard, Fox, Adeia. $85 million governed at Fox. Executive PMO oversight for the DIRECTV–AT&T merger integration. Then, when the expected move was to coast, she went back to MIT for the COO program, AI, and IoT. Operations, held to a pattern, become something whole. That is what OperationsON builds.