With eight years of experience at Mt. Auburn Associates, Devon has developed expertise in a number of areas of economic development including workforce development, sector analysis, economic development strategy, organizational design, and evaluation. Recent projects have included multi-year evaluations of sector-based workforce development initiatives in Boston, MA and Hartford, CT; an evaluation of a successful nonprofit’s national replication strategy; an evaluation of a Massachusetts quasi-public’s technology innovation investment strategy; strategy development for Connecticut’s one-stop system; a strategic and organizational plan for a Maine-based community development corporation; and a strategic plan for the city of Fall River, Massachusetts.

Devon’s strategic planning and organizational design experience comes not only from her work at Mt. Auburn Associates, but also from her previous work at international strategic consulting firms. Devon previously worked at Monitor Company, a global strategic management consulting firm. While at Monitor, Devon consulted primarily to life science clients (pharmaceutical and medical products) on operational and marketing strategies. Devon also played a leadership role in Monitor’s internal human asset management overseeing allocations and professional development of senior consultants as well as working closely with the Monitor’s CEO on an organizational redesign. From 1990 to 1992, Devon worked as a research associate at Klein & Co., a consulting firm serving nonprofit clients, primarily international labor unions on organizational redesign and strategic planning. Devon’s clients included the International Ladies Garment Workers Union, Communication Workers of America, United Brotherhood of Carpenters, and the Great Britain’s Transport and General Workers Union.

Devon holds an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a B.A., magna cum laude, in Economics and Political Science from Wellesley College.