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Greater Boston Area

I work with clients to reimagine how they engage with their most important stakeholders - patients, caregivers, doctors, and each other. Imbue Partners is a management consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive sustainable growth through strategic planning, organizational capabilities and process improvement. We partner with clients to develop actionable insights and optimize customer engagement by facilitating cross-functional teams and applying proven methods and… Show more I work with clients to reimagine how they engage with their most important stakeholders - patients, caregivers, doctors, and each other. Imbue Partners is a management consultancy that collaborates with clients to drive sustainable growth through strategic planning, organizational capabilities and process improvement. We partner with clients to develop actionable insights and optimize customer engagement by facilitating cross-functional teams and applying proven methods and tools to all commercial activity. Founded in 2009, Imbue Partners is certified as a Women's Business Enterprise (WBENC) headquartered in Middleton, MA. Show less

Led teams creating marketing and growth strategies, change mgmt and team building for clients in pharma, medical devices, industrial chemicals, automotive and government sectors. Transformed processes and changed behavior to improve marketing strategy, sales cycles, organizational design, and technology rollout.  Led $800K global engagement to successfully bring the voice of the market into the product development process.  Led a global strategic pricing/selling effort for a… Show more Led teams creating marketing and growth strategies, change mgmt and team building for clients in pharma, medical devices, industrial chemicals, automotive and government sectors. Transformed processes and changed behavior to improve marketing strategy, sales cycles, organizational design, and technology rollout.  Led $800K global engagement to successfully bring the voice of the market into the product development process.  Led a global strategic pricing/selling effort for a $2B polymers company. Performed qualitative and quantitative research design, analysis and implications analysis. Master faculty for NSA/DOD, teaching methods and tools to improve analytical thinking and communication effectiveness. Senior practice lead for marketing strategy software development. Responsibilities: product development, relationship management, and rollout. Show less

As a Project Manager, I managed a $5M, custom application project utilizing object-oriented design and development methodology and the Unified Modeling Language (UML), led a 30 person development team including a solution architect, technical leads, DBAs, a business team, developers and contractors and exhibited all project management disciplines such as managing budget and timeline, maintaining a work-breakdown structure, conducting risk analysis and contingency planning, issue tracking and… Show more As a Project Manager, I managed a $5M, custom application project utilizing object-oriented design and development methodology and the Unified Modeling Language (UML), led a 30 person development team including a solution architect, technical leads, DBAs, a business team, developers and contractors and exhibited all project management disciplines such as managing budget and timeline, maintaining a work-breakdown structure, conducting risk analysis and contingency planning, issue tracking and resolution, quality control and developing process improvements Show less

As Skill Lead in Digital Strategy I exceeded revenue goal for strategy group by 150%; group generated $2.5M and ranked number one of six offices. Established the processes and practice to support growing the strategy group organically by 90% from Q1, 2000

As a Senior Associate in Detroit, MI, I managed a client development team to a project plan, translated process costing business requirements into system use cases that adhere to the system object model, developed the automotive client's case for change, focusing on competitive advantage and strategic, enterprise-wide benefits

Masters, Organization Development & Change

Ba, English

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