Brandy Colson Email & Phone Number

Kansas City, Missouri Area

Ideas are good, but they reach potential through a repeatable process of evaluation, planning and execution. Providing smart, diligent, and flexible help; let me assess, develop plans for, and implement your next endeavor. I work across the spectrum of organizations - from small non-profits to large enterprises - to provide an accessible and no-nonsense solution to take ideas to results starting at strategic planning all the way to nuts and bolts implementation.• Led strategic planning effort for large community health organization. Created a robust process to integrate feedback from a variety of stakeholders, identify opportunities, and create three year plan. Currently, monitoring implementation of plan (moving into third year) and resulting significant success including substantial bottom line improvements (over $1.5 million improvement). • Completed assessment of payroll and HR practices for large non-profit. Created RFP, led evaluation effort, and implemented new payroll and HR system. • Implemented employee engagement program. Evaluated potential solutions, identified value proposition, and completed implementation and supported ongoing execution of engagement program.• Created strategic plan for 30-year-old non-profit inclusive of SWOT analysis, environmental assessment, community focus groups, donor interviews, board discussions, identification of goals and metrics, and membership roll-out.• Analyzed risks of new product offered by a large Kansas City bank. Identified risk assessment method for implementation, oversaw and consolidated field audit results to assess regulatory risk on product delivery.• Delivered market assessment and risk analysis for new business proposal. Outlined opportunities and assessed potential issues with business launch.• Manage five entity conglomerate with primary responsibility for nourishment, rest, and happiness. Secondary responsibilities include household maintenance. Other duties as assigned. :-)see less

• Analyzed and developed plans for key financial initiative resulting in a rebalancing of franchise and company-owned locations. Partnered with C-level executives to identify opportunity and develop board-level deliverables to communicate opportunity and risks associated with fundamental strategic change. Planned roll-out, coordinated business development effort, and tracked results for regular reporting to senior leadership.• Developed strategic initiative to accomplish annual savings of $100 million within five years. Completed complex analysis of data to assess opportunities, reported regularly to senior leadership on progress, and supported projects linked to five functional areas to accomplish savings. • Implemented new product in secondary tax channel. Coordinated finance, IT, and product development team effort to deliver product on short timeline. Identified and managed service disruption that occurred during implementation, created and executed plan to fix client-facing issue.• Executed annual strategic and tactical planning process. Analyzed projects, led team effort, developed and delivered planning documents that maintained team continuity and communicated key ideas. Identified key metrics and maintained ongoing tracking to ensure successful implementation.

Kansas City, Missouri Area

• Managed restatement activities at very large government sponsored enterprise. Coordinated work activities between +100 E&Y resources, business line personnel, and IT resources. Directed the development of scope, requirements, approach, and execution documentation to facilitate massive effort. Created tracking mechanisms to ensure accurate reporting of progress for client, E&Y team, and regulators. • Managed SOX 404 compliance effort for a billion dollar organization including communicating objectives, engaging key business owners, and transitioning on-going efforts to stakeholders. • Led team of 12 E&Y professionals reviewing over 1,800 internal operating accounts of a large financial institution responding to a regulatory inquiry. Documented use, monitoring process, and potential financial exposure for the organization.• Assessed receivable and payable processes. Reviewed cash collection points and utilized software to determine optimal receivable processing locations. Further, completed analysis on the payment mechanism and timing of disbursements.