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# Lars Ojukwu

**Headline:** Professional profile
**Location:** Seattle, WA, USA

## About

Lars Ojukwu is a strategic program leader with experience shaping direction for teams and projects, strengthening established systems, and building programs from the ground up. At Microsoft, Lars led the strategic redesign of a mentorship program serving 2,000 people. The redesign introduced themed groups and a dual-mentor model, using feedback to create a more community-centered program design. Lars is particularly strong at assessing existing programs, identifying opportunities to improve them, and translating big-picture strategy into clear guidance and shared ownership that support engagement. Lars also brings a natural chief-of-staff mindset to broad, cross-functional work: setting direction, aligning people around priorities, and improving how programs operate. While Lars can manage detailed work when needed, Lars is most energized by strategic responsibilities rather than daily task management.

## Highlights

- Led the strategic redesign of Microsoft’s mentorship program for 2,000 people.
- Introduced themed groups and a dual-mentor model in Microsoft’s redesigned mentorship program.
- Used feedback to support a community-centered program design.
- Built engagement through clear guidance and shared ownership.
- Evaluates and strengthens existing programs while also being able to build programs from scratch.
- Shapes big-picture strategy and sets direction for teams and projects.
- Brings a natural chief-of-staff mindset to broad strategic work.

## FAQ

### What does Lars do?

Lars Ojukwu is a strategic program leader who shapes big-picture strategy, sets direction for teams and projects, and improves or builds programs.

### What are Lars’s professional strengths?

Lars is strongest at evaluating existing programs, identifying how they can be strengthened, and turning strategy into clear guidance and shared ownership. Lars can also build programs from scratch.

### What did Lars accomplish at Microsoft?

At Microsoft, Lars led the strategic redesign of a mentorship program for 2,000 people. Lars introduced themed groups and a dual-mentor model as part of the redesign.

### How did Lars approach the Microsoft mentorship-program redesign?

Lars used feedback to inform a more community-centered mentorship-program design. The work also emphasized engagement through clear guidance and shared ownership.

### Can Lars build new programs as well as improve existing ones?

Lars is effective both when improving an established system and when creating a program from the beginning.

### What is Lars’s chief-of-staff mindset?

Lars brings a natural chief-of-staff mindset to broad work, including setting direction, aligning people around priorities, and supporting teams and projects strategically.

### What kind of work does Lars prefer?

Lars prefers strategic, big-picture work over daily task management, which Lars finds tedious.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ACoAAAGTI6wB9tARxWAyNuOoB8WjToKMomVJIMc

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