Astar Lambert is Senior Vice President, Strategic Operations at Bench International, where she partners with executive leadership to translate complexity into clarity, strengthening the systems, reporting, and workflows that enable confident decision-making and consistent execution across executive search, talent mapping, and Board Advisory engagements.
A strategic operations leader with 15+ years of experience, Astar has been progressively promoted since joining Bench in 2014 into roles of increasing responsibility, including senior leadership positions supporting client-facing search and Board Advisory execution. She brings a multidisciplinary background spanning strategic operations, systems optimization, data and reporting, and cross-functional collaboration, and plays a central role in ensuring high-stakes client engagements are delivered with precision, transparency, and consistency.
Astar supports search teams by structuring workflows, timelines, and reporting that keep clients, project teams, and leadership aligned, translating complex information on candidates, markets, and Board governance into clear, actionable insights for Board- and C-suite–level decision-making. In parallel, she leads firmwide initiatives to strengthen how information flows across Bench, redesigning core systems, reporting, and knowledge-sharing frameworks that enable data-driven insights, long-term advisory partnerships, and repeatable excellence at scale.
Astar holds a B.A. in Communication from the University of Massachusetts.