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Las Vegas, Nevada, United States

We help unlock courageous leadership, one client at a time. We drive results by combining process, people, and critical measures with clear leadership actions, creating high-performance teams and organizations.We deliver in multiple modes designed to meet client needs including executive coaching, mentoring, training, speaking, and facilitation.With a breadth of experience in more than ten industries, we bring a unique perspective across general management, accounting, finance, operations, change leadership, human resources, and performance excellence.With a people-first strategy, we understand how to remove obstacles to success — helping people to get unstuck through direct communications and constructive confrontations and acting as a trusted advisor in a safe, productive environment. We help develop courageous leadership and decision-making skills and create high-performance teams in dynamic environments.At the core of our work are three foundational principles: Respect. Straight talk. Results.

San Antonio, Texas Area

YouGov is an international data and analytics group. Its value chain consists of a highly engaged online panel, innovative data collection, powerful analytics technology, delivery of high-margin syndicated data products, expert insights and an authoritative media presence.Assumed US General Manager role following the departure of CEO.Consistently produced results while improving employee communication and engagement.Exceeded revenue and profit growth targets for FY16.Opened San Francisco and Washington, D.C. offices to exploit brand awareness driven by 2016 election.Expanded highest-profit custom offering, increasing profits by $1M over the prior year.Introduced benchmark processes in survey services and project management, used as a global template.Personally led employee engagement after-action reviews to increase buy-in and action.Improved financial and sales review cadence, increasing leadership accountability for performance.

Redwood City, Ca

Joined firm as CFO after four acquisitions left the business with multiple cultures and systems. Streamlined three accounting systems into NetSuite in first six months.Optimized cash management process and updated billings and collections, significantly improving cash flow and credit profile.Reduced cost of finance and administration by $500K in the first year.Implemented HR process to serve employees, enhance recruiting capabilities, and professionalize benefits planning and administration.Accelerated monthly closing process from six days to three days and improved financial commentary to parent.Centralized survey and panel operations and directed team to create standard processes, turnaround times, and daily/weekly reporting to enhance client service levels.

Critical Information Network delivers best-in-class online education and training solutions for the public safety and industrial operations/maintenance industries.Guided finance, accounting, HR, and operations as CFO/COO of a Comvest Capital portfolio company. Helped turn around a firm with negative cash burn, achieving positive flow before a successful sale to a strategic buyer.Improved financial systems and controls, adding SalesForce.com capabilities, and expanded process and performance management processes.Delivered expense reduction of over $5M while moving the business from an event-based to a subscription-based model in the online industrial learning segment.

Led private equity firm Comvest Capital portfolio company as CEO, using lean principles to streamline manufacturing and delivery of high-power fiber-laser industrial cutting equipment during a capital equipment recession. Increased sales to $4M and significantly reduced cash burn before closing the business.

Served as a leadership bridge during recruiting for a permanent president with education-sector experience.Expanded organizational design and business process rigor during the transition.Accelerated software product development by rapidly retasking resources.Introduced a town hall process to engage employees in a two-way dialogue and increase trust.

San Antonio, Texas Area

Harland Clarke offers a broad range of integrated payment, marketing and security solutions to over 11,000 financial services and enterprise clients.Improved human resource effectiveness for $1.8B revenue company. Streamlined human resource processes while increasing employee engagement.Introduced talent management process and expanded the John Harland diversity council.Accelerated culture change while integrating two firms with an 80-year history of competition into a single, 7,000 employee organization.Achieved merger synergies four months earlier than the target.

Checks In The Mail is a leading direct marketer and supplier of bank checks and related supplies with history in the check industry since 1922.Led the direct-to-consumer division of Harland Clarke Corp. before promotion to SVP Human Resources for the parent company.

Joined as VP HR and Performance Excellence in March 2003. Promoted to SVP Finance six months later, adding responsibility for all financial activity including procurement to existing duties for this $100 million revenue direct marketer of personal and business checks.Expanded Performance Excellence capabilities using Malcolm Baldrige criteria. Awarded site visit for Texas Award for Performance Excellence in the first year.Introduced executive coaching and Crucial Conversations to learning and development offerings to enhance skill sets and improve communication skills of the management team.Improved the workforce planning process to emphasize re-recruiting of key talent, redeployment of resources and career opportunity program.Introduced outcome-based thinking process down to data entry personnel to enable process improvement at all levels.Partnered with e-Commerce team to create a search word model that profitably increased sales by $2.5 million annually.

Wichita, Kansas Area

Created and grew the Cessna business transformation team reporting to the CEO.Process design teams redesigned communication, order acquisition, CRM, and order fulfillment processes.As an example, the CRM redesign reduced customer touch points from 13 to 3, significantly improving the customer experience.