Telile Regassa, founder and principal of Operating Practice
Telile Regassa / Founder + Principal

Founder + Principal

Enterprise judgment, applied directly to your operating reality.

Telile Regassa advises organizations and leaders when performance depends on seeing the system more clearly and making the right change practical.

Her experience across AWS, Microsoft, IBM, and global teams spans organization design, workforce strategy, executive advisory, leadership systems, and change adoption.

That range allows her to connect the business objective to the organization, workforce, leadership, and human conditions required to deliver it.

MA, Human Resources and Industrial Relations, University of Minnesota

Selected experienceAWSMicrosoftIBM

Global by design

The same decision can work differently across context.

Telile's perspective is shaped across countries, cultures, institutions, and professional systems. She brings lived understanding of how culture, power, language, identity, trust, and unwritten rules affect how decisions land and whether progress lasts.

Experience translated into client value

Experience that changes what the client can see and do.

The value is not a list of roles. It is better pattern recognition, stronger judgment, and advice that accounts for the full operating system.

Executive advisory

Trusted partnership in complex decisions

Experience advising senior leaders through workforce planning, organizational change, talent decisions, and shared accountability.

Enterprise systems

Leadership and talent systems built for scale

Experience shaping leadership platforms, governance, and development approaches across global organizations and regions.

Workforce decisions

A connected view of performance

Experience across workforce strategy, talent, rewards, capability, retention, and organizational effectiveness.

Change + adoption

Transformation grounded in how people work

Experience connecting technology rollout, skill development, leadership systems, behavior change, and adoption.

Principal-led by design

The person you meet is the person doing the work.

Operating Practice is intentionally principal-led. Clients work directly with Telile from the first conversation through the decisions and follow-through that matter.

That preserves context, reduces translation loss, and keeps accountability connected across diagnosis, design, and adoption.

Work directly with the principal

Bring the outcome, the context, and the operating reality.