My mission is to help leaders create the highest performing organizations possible which, in turn, enable the people within them to perform at the peak of their ability.
I have spent 25 years leading strategic change throughout a career spanning both internal corporate leadership and external advisory roles. This means I bring a wealth of experience built upon engagements with senior leaders from over 70 organizations, 20 industries, and 150 transformation initiatives.
I have held P&L responsibility for small businesses and, at times, failed. I have struggled through corporate matrixes and politics to get things done as an internal operator. I have been a trusted confidant to executives charged with leading astonishing change agendas and lived all the associated personal, team, and organizational challenges firsthand alongside them. As a consequence, I bring not just experience that is founded in success but also empathy and understanding of what leaders face when leading strategic change.
At Mars and Cargill, I partnered with C-suite, business unit, and function executives as the head of internal consulting practice groups. In both roles, I was responsible for portfolios of global transformation programs, some small and some of which impacted thousands of employees. One of my responsibilities at Cargill was M&A integrations of predominantly founder and family owned businesses. In support of that work, I developed an end-to-end methodology that includes due diligence assessment of leadership, structural, and cultural compatibility and risks that was adopted as a global playbook.
Earlier in my career, I formed and led consulting teams that included whole systems change and organizational design consultants, former McKinsey, BCG, PWC, Deloitte, and Accenture consultants, and world renown faculty experts. We provided strategy development, operating model transformation, culture change, organizational design, M&A integration, leadership development, and related services. Clients ranged from lower middle market founders through Fortune 100 CEOs. Some of the larger and more recognizable companies I have consulted with include – Ford, Land O'Lakes, Pixar, Caribou Coffee, 3M, Sleep Number, Baxter Health, Ericsson, Mayo Clinic, Allianz, British Telecom, Hewlett Packard, Kaiser Permanente, USBank, and Bayer.
Please reach out and let's talk about the state of your business, the change you believe is needed, and where I may be able to support you.
