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About: Destiny S. Harris
Oi! I’m Destiny S. Harris, Founder of Blacklisted Library. Lifelong learner. Animal lover. Radically curious. Explorer @ heart.
Writing: Foundational
Writing found me early. I began writing at 11 and have published more than 1,700 books and 4,500 articles. Today, 28 books are available free through Blacklisted Library dot com. In addition, I’ve traveled to 60+ countries and acquired six degrees in philosophy, psychology, political science, women’s studies, political psychology, and organizational leadership. Along the way, I discovered that words, knowledge, books, and experience fuel everything I do.
Fitness: Non-negotiable
The first weight was in my hands as a baby, lifting began at 11, and the gym officially became home at 14. Fitness continues to shape every part of my life.
Finance: Passion
Investing started at 14 and grew into a lifelong practice of studying markets, building portfolios, and dismantling illusions about wealth. As a result, finance became the fire that drives much of my work today.
Music: Alchemic
My parents signed me up for piano lessons and then later encouraged me to start teaching music at 14; I went on to teach for 10 years. I dabbled a little into guitar as well. I’ve never been an expert, but I’ve always had an ear for sound.
Tech: Catalytic
My path began at Apple and expanded into product, program, and organizational leadership, where I’ve been building, scaling, and leading since 2013. Tech does more than provide a career—it fuels my growth in wealth, mindset, and leadership.
Travel: Transmutational
My parents introduced me to travel at a young age. 60 countries later, the rest is history. Travel is a primary avenue I leverage to grow, learn, evolve, observe, and transform.
Academia: Curiosity
Psychology B.S., Political Science B.A., Women’s Studies A.B., Philosophy B.A., Political Psychology M.A., Organizational Leadership M.S.
Contact
support@blacklistedlibrary.com
Organizational transformation across startup, high-growth, and enterprise environments
Since 2013, I have worked across product strategy, global program delivery, post-acquisition integration, organizational design, people infrastructure, and executive advisory.
My work focuses on the point where strategy begins to break down in execution: unclear ownership, fragmented systems, stalled initiatives, duplicated tools, inconsistent organizational infrastructure, and leadership teams carrying too much operational complexity.
I help organizations create the structure required to move forward.
Selected Impact
- Advised executive leadership on $5M+ transformation portfolios across engineering, infrastructure, security, and data
- Delivered $5.3M in overhead reduction through platform transformation
- Identified $1M+ in integration savings through system migration and consolidation
- Unified 200+ operational views through an enterprise dashboard strategy
- Reduced technology stack spend by 15%
- Improved cross-team delivery velocity by 20%
- Reduced time to market by 25%
- Increased e-file adoption from 83% to 90%
- Increased conversion and refund disbursement by 8%
- Built the organizational operating infrastructure for a founder-led technology company scaling from 15 to 30 employees
Selected Experience
Fortune 500 Enterprise
Advised executive leadership on transformation strategy across engineering, infrastructure, security, and data.
Guided post-acquisition IT integration across multiple transactions, aligning systems, data, security, vendors, workflows, and global teams.
Architected an enterprise dashboard strategy spanning more than 200 operational views and identified more than $1M in integration savings through platform consolidation.
Founder-Led Technology Company
Built the company’s organizational operating infrastructure from the ground up while it scaled from 15 to 30 employees.
Designed systems across hiring, compensation, performance, values, governance, benefits, communication, conflict resolution, advancement, and executive visibility.
Served as a direct thought partner to the CEO while overseeing more than 30 concurrent organizational initiatives.
Elastic
Led a multi-year transformation across five global web teams.
Introduced portfolio governance, PMO, Agile, and SAFe practices while reducing operational waste and improving conversion through coordinated organizational and delivery change.
Fintech Company
Delivered $5.3M in overhead reduction through platform transformation.
Increased e-file adoption from 83% to 90%, improved refund conversion and disbursement, and partnered with executive leadership to connect portfolio investments with long-term revenue strategy.
Fintech Company
Led product and delivery transformation across credit card and mobile-verification experiences.
Improved conversion and reduced time to market through UX optimization and Agile release practices.
Apple
Conducted more than 3,000 customer interviews that informed iOS product requirements.
Served as a cross-functional bridge between business and technical teams during a period of significant platform evolution.
Areas of Experience
Organizational transformation · Post-acquisition integration · Enterprise change management · Organizational and operating-model design · Transformation portfolio governance · Product and program leadership · People and performance infrastructure · Executive dashboards and initiative visibility · Technology and workflow consolidation · Stakeholder alignment and adoption · Founder and CEO advisory · Cross-functional execution
Education & Credentials
M.S. Organizational Leadership · M.A. Political Psychology · B.S. Psychology · B.A. Political Science · A.B. Women’s Studies · B.A. Philosophy
PMP · CPM · CPD · CSPO · CSM
Current Focus
I advise startups, high-growth technology companies, private equity-backed organizations, and enterprise leadership teams navigating rapid growth, acquisition integration, restructuring, operating-model change, and organizational complexity.