President's Bio

Lorraine Aguilar is the founder and president of Working Harmony, Inc. She serves a diverse clientele including Fortune 500 companies, the United Nations, the British Government and nonprofit organizations. As a skilled facilitator and management consultant, Lorraine helps her clients achieve a common goal: an effective organization with cohesive team united around a clear strategy.

Before founding Working Harmony, Lorraine led a corporate facilitation program for one of the largest utilities in the U.S. She regularly consulted with the CEO and executive team to design and facilitate large-scale interventions to reduce bureaucracy and streamline work processes. This program succeeded in building a culture of facilitative leadership, as many of her program alumni were promoted to executive and senior management positions across the business units.

A native of California, Lorraine has worked in Asia, Europe and Latin America, as well as the U.S. Some of her most notable projects include:

• Facilitating the first national HIV/AIDS conference for newly-independent East Timor, with the President of the country as keynote speaker; and
• An historic collaboration to reduce poverty in Cambodia, facilitating synergistic strategies between the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank and the United Kingdom Department for International Development.
• Facilitating a program of international cooperation to eliminate the trafficking of women and children into sexual exploitation and forced labor in Southeast Asia.

Prior to her work as a facilitator and management consultant, Lorraine was an engineer for an international environmental consulting firm.

Lorraine has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley and a M.S. in Environmental Engineering from the University of California, Irvine. She is a licensed Chemical Engineer (P.E.) in the State of California.