I'm back! I'm grateful for my two years surrounded by talented people at North Highland but am re-embarking on my pursuit to make bigger impacts with middle market organizations. I'm thrilled to return to the world of organizational diagnostics and designs, helping clients enable their strategy through holistic organizational decisions.

I'm beyond excited to be part of a team again! I'm honored to join a group of wonderful, personable leaders working to build innovative solutions to help our clients in Retail & Consumer Products address their business transformation related challenges.

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A strategic, creative, and personal approach to guiding clients through change.

via Kates Kesler acquisition

Blake has been sharing his strengths of strategy, creativity, and empathy with clients since his consulting career began in 2003. He spent his first eight years with Accenture based in Dallas, TX, building skills and relationships supporting global clients in planning and preparing for workplace disruptions driven by organizational and technology changes. Between 2011 and 2016, Blake helped rebuild EY’s change management practice based out of Chicago, and in 2015 relocated to Charlotte, NC. Blake continued his client service as an independent contractor supporting Lowe’s Home Improvement’s HR Organization Design team for nearly three years. He began working with Kates Kesler in 2019 and was brought back into Accenture through acquisition in 2020.

Facilitating business leaders and HR business partners though activities to confirm the capabilities, structures, processes, skills, and measures needed to deliver on business strategy. Team and role design solutions balance improving customer experiences, enabling enterprise goals, and developing individual talent. Accounting for organizational changes driven by layoff consequences, activist investor participation, CEO resignation/ C-suite turnover, digital transformation, Agile implementation, automation, business model expansion, and business model simplification.* Served as a key partner to HR Business Partners across Chief Customer, Chief Information, and Chief Operations organizations* Worked to solve for innovation and digital challenges facing traditional brick-and-mortar retailers* Facilitated discussions aimed at designing organizational structures to better enable business strategy (pricing, promotions and credit, digital merchandising, merchandising, digital product management, targeted marketing)* Helped identify the teams, roles, skills, and competencies required to deliver value* Led business unit leaders through group design workshops* Refined localized OD approach, methods, and tools through collaborative peer working sessions, creating a comprehensive, executable work breakdown structure

Challenged to expand EY's footprint by demonstrating exceptional client service and offering both proven and innovative change management solutions to business partners undergoing significant projects. Renewed focus in Spring 2016 from the U.S. Midwest to Southeast region with increased concentration in the energy sector.Engagement Experience:* Led the change management team supporting the U.S.'s largest utility implement an Identity & Access Management (IAM) cyber-security solution, introducing a role-based access model coupled with an enabling technology (SailPoint) to maintain NERC CIP compliance; led to the extension of EY's support in future phases* Developed and delivered a two-day training course educating over 100 Tax professionals on EY's approach to change management and the services offered to client business partners; improved awareness of full breadth of services offered in the midst of sub-service line consolidation* Oversaw training design and development efforts for the implementation of Record to Report, Order to Cash, Plan to Make, and Make to Deliver modules of SAP for an animal health pharmaceutical client's supply chain operations* Created a comprehensive, executable change management approach for a global sustainable agriculture company looking to advance their customer service operations

Manager in EY Advisory Services, Performance Improvement - People & Organization Changeleading teams and supporting client partners in preparing for business process and technology changes.Engagement Experience:* Made significant contributions to training design and development efforts impacting field sales and back-office support personnel for a global agriculture company; Salesforce.com and SAP order-to-cash implementation with agency-model adoption challenges* Led strategic change management strategy re-planning for an SAP driver-based planning solution with a national oil company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia; drove internal change (project) team building initiatives to improve work stream collaboration* Partnered with multiple client team leads at a major Health provider and payer in Southern California to plan business engagement and future state organization design efforts required by implementing a new claims solution* Led development of a week-long instructor-led training course mirroring a "Change Management 201" course intended to establish not only a baseline understanding of change management methods but also basic application for client-driven efforts* Organized and managed continuous content for two distinct networks of early adopters for a global pharmaceutical client transforming finance and supply chain operations, focused on improving visibility to productivity; led readiness planning and evaluation efforts leading up to seven distinct go-live events

Focus on change management planning and program execution in support of system implementation and transformation projects. Engagement Experience:* Promoted from developer role to lead a large team (8+) of on- and off-shore training developers, working with key banking stakeholders to prepare for an automated financial commercial lending solution; leveraged Adobe Captivate training authoring software* Led two change management team members in supporting the communication and training plans for a large US insurance company implementating SAP Business Planning & Consolidation (BPC)* As the sole change lead and contractor team member, planned and executed end user experience and preparation activities alongside client co-lead as a large bank implemented an Ariba time reporting and procurement solution

Focus on change management including training development roles and stakeholder engagement planning and operations in support of organization design and and global transformation projects.Engagement Experience:* Supported a team leader and supervised another team member while providing a recommendation to a large US insurance company for a revised banded organization structure (moving from clusters) involving 21 Position Families for three distinct Information Technology organizations* Partnered with key executives to develop a complementary change management strategy tied to the jointly-created five-year strategic vision (journey map) for an insurance company's Sales & Customer Service department* Replaced a Manager taking leave to lead and supervise change efforts to help an upstream resources client migrate to from Windows 97 to Windows Vista* Led preparation efforts for select Quality SAP modules as a global semi-conductor manufacturer completed its implementtion of SAP; scheduled and facilitated calls with global teams of early adopters incuding travel to Toulouse, France to support user-acceptance testing* Supported communication and training efforts for a national Utility implementing PeopleSoft financials* Planned and executed communication efforts for a federal government aerospace agency updating their current version of SAP (finance)* Assisted in the facilitation of focus groups and overall recommendation to redesign the Field Supervisor role for a large Northern California Utility provider

Focus on business process with alignment to Resources industries, primarily utilities and utilities distribution with entry into change management roles with role redesign and system implementation communications.

Primary assistant for tobacco litigation defense cases, both personal and class action.

Started as a Student Assistant in the Carl Albert Center then moved to a full-time position in Legal Studies awaiting my start date with then-Andersen Consulting.