Ben Helland Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City, UT, US

Princeton, NJ, US

Enabling an entrepreneurial team of education assessment experts to launch a new set of products that surface and promote durable skill development for K-12 learners, educators, caregivers, and administrators. Responsibilities include budget setting/tracking, hiring and onboarding, post-M&A integration, risk mitigation and compliance, project management.

• Verudite provides business strategy, management, product launch, insight, and acquisition services. We have served enterprises on the FTSE100 to startups with just over a dozen employees, from healthcare to.
• Took control of daily operations of 90 employee, $5M gross rev healthcare company resulting in reversal of negative cash flows, and a margin improvement from below 0% to 11% in 3 months.
• Recent examples of consulting engagements include: scenario-based planning for large higher ed publisher, frameworks for understanding impact of AI for InsideTrack, market-testing & launch of new product for HolonIQ.

Salt Lake City, UT, US

• Led the strategy team at the largest university in the US, creating focus and prioritization so it could continue to be the catalyst for economic mobility for underserved talent.Key Achievements:
• Developed and administered the long-term strategic planning practice at the University. Facilitated working sessions with executive staff to consistently evolve the 5-year strategic vision and required capabilities..
• Empowered executive leadership with market briefings that created a routine of regular market scans detailing latest in edtech, competition, and AI
• Created the framework and categorization for mapping competition and partners, which aligned and focused decisions from everyone from Marketing to Board of Trustees.
• Led executive stakeholders to create an integrated strategy for alumni engagement, introducing clarity and direction to a part of the business that lacked those key elements for 20 years.
• Developed and launched system-wide Key Results which raised 8,000+ employees' rating of "I know how my work contributes to our priorities and goals" by 17% in one year.

Salt Lake City, UT, US

Salt Lake City, Utah, US

• Delivered in-depth data analysis, visualization, solution architecture for service lines within the hospital, as well as consultative solutions to a myriad of internal clients.Key Achievements:
• Led analytics and team communication for innovative strategy (Integrated Practice Units) centered on controlling longitudinal costs and improving care for heart failure patients.
• Innovated new real time data source for nurses responsible for Coronary Artery Bypass Graft (CABG) patients, which resulted in long term care success metrics increasing from 15% to over 90%.
• Created and delivered automated patient lists to care coordinators at top 10 eye center (Moran Eye Center) that allowed them to automatically identify patients who would likely benefit from copay assistance, resulting.
• Expanded new relationships with new departments within the hospital such as Marketing, Value Engineering, Billing, Quality, and Research, creating an broader culture of data-driven decision making.

Salt Lake City, Utah, US

New York, NY, US

• Planned, budgeted, monitored and analyzed the execution of manufacturing projects contracted by the Department of Defense using primarily Earned Value Management Systems and Work Breakdown Structures.Key Achievements:
• Portfolio of responsibility for the financial analysis and outcomes for a portfolio of contracts exceeding $150M.
• Contributed to several proposals and bids, including Sniper/Litening 2013 negotiations – in which I provided insight that led to improvements to the contract, and increased profit by an additional $1.1M.
• Lead analyst on International Waveform project that resulted in a 30% ROS (~280k) and $10m+ of future sales to foreign markets.
• Created automated reporting that consolidated project funding into a single source, reducing time spent by leadership in tracking remaining budget.
• Pitched, organized and led internal forums developed to reduce siloes of interdependent positions and departments. Presentations were led by experts within those positions. These forums were regularly attended by more.

• Managed daily life, finances, budgets, medications, appointments, living situations and employment of individuals with developmental disabilities, as well as the staff responsible for the execution of those.
• Responsible for all operations of the location including: 15 staff, training, recruiting, cost management, adherence to government regulations, safety drills, synchronization between other locations and reporting to.
• Overhauled processes and retrained staff to adhere to easy-to-follow budgets in such a way that the residents were able to renovate portions of their home, purchase healthier groceries and even take a trip to Disneyland.
• Advanced from direct care staff to Program Director.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Management And Data Analysis

Bs, Psychology

Phd, Educational Psychology