POSITIONING PEOPLE TO SUCCEED WHILE ENABLING SUSTAINABLE BUSINESS GROWTHAccomplished President, CEO and COO with a diverse background in executive leadership roles with privately held, family-owned, ESOP, private equity, and Fortune 500 organizations. Leverages a visionary mindset to optimize an organization’s foundational strengths and capabilities while evolving for a sustainable future.VISION-FOCUSED STRATEGY & THOUGHT LEADERSHIP that drives sustainable and profitable growth:♦ Deep experience evolving and improving core business competencies, products, services, and organizational structure to achieve operational excellence and growth. Shifts sales, marketing, pricing, and business models through customer- and solutions-focused strategies.♦ Leverages thought leadership in manufacturing to identify, validate, and optimize opportunities with a tangible future state vision, growth strategy, and execution.♦ Builds alignment across functions to drive long-term stakeholder value and results through market landscape analysis, white space exploration, war gaming, domestic and global domain expansion, succession planning, strategic planning and collaborative execution.EMPOWERING, HIGH-INTEGRITY LEADER who positions people and teams to succeed:♦ Leads by example with transparency, compassion, and a genuine desire to empower leaders and teams to succeed. Unifies disparate groups to reach goals, especially in complex, challenging and high-stress situations.♦ Creates cultures of respect, accountability, and open-mindedness where people are heard and valued in an environment of innovation and collaboration.♦ Unifies cross-functional leaders and teams and encourages divergent thinking to challenge status quo, generate creative solutions, and deliver a distinct competitive advantage for customers and in the marketplace.CATALYZING TRANSFORMATION that evolves organizations into high-performing, high-value entities:♦ Expert in business transformation, turnarounds, and repositioning mature, distressed, or stagnant companies for growth, divestiture, or acquisition. ♦ Leads transformations with a clear focus on the future state vision. Anticipates and communicates potential pitfalls and opportunities to optimize growth. Engages stakeholders to envision the future and fully commit to achieving goals and results.♦ Agile in leading people and the organization through change while adapting and shifting gears to keep people, projects and progress moving forward.