Jenny Lynne Erickson Email & Phone Number

Greater Phoenix Area

What could you do if you didn't have to do it all?There's a world out there where people CHOOSE to get up for work each day and make their impact and fully live their life at the same time. Out Loud. Messy. Real.And I want you to experience it. Fully.Let me back up.In January 2021, my kids’ dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer and a horrific prognosis. And then, ten months later, he was gone.This event changed everything for me. I was running a successful, growing business — but it was 100% dependent on me. If I stopped working, the business stopped producing. Another kid I had to raise when I barely had time to raise my own.I knew that wouldn’t work for my life anymore. I had to scale something that made an impact, let me do more of what I loved, and worked completely with my now-chaotic single mom life.So I challenged everything I knew.Within a week, I went from 60 hours down to 45, and after some temporary drops, I settled at 30 hours per week total, and 20 of that on my own purpose-driven business, ACThoughtful Consulting.The fact that I had to look in the mirror and admit that I can’t work more than 30-35 hours was crazy talk.But it was also the truth.It changed the fabric of my business first and how I built and led my team, set priorities, and structured my business model. And over time, it made its way into my identity as I evolved from a workaholic business owner to the CEO who builds things bigger than myself.Now my life's work is to help others reinvent their relationship with work.Are you ready to fully integrate your work and life?

Bayport, Mn

I enable results by activating the entrepreneurial spirit and the ideas of each person and organization I work with. At the center of my work is just the right advice when you need it.I bring a broad business background and 20 years of experience getting things done in a variety of fields from sourcing to operations to technology to marketing to finance.You bring your experiences, industry and company knowledge, and deep relationships. Together we can craft and deliver a plan to strengthen your organization and turn the impacts you want to make into reality.My team and I provide affordable business coaching, business advice, and fractional-COO services where no fraction is too small. We fill the space in between your other experts by being the pinch hitter. So you can get to growing.

Bayport, Mn

As a WSET Level 2 certified wine educator, I create Experiences that change the game for people who want to get to know wine. Wine isn't about being talked at --- it's about a sensory Experience that you create. Each Experience that I bring to the table is different because you and your guests create it, not me.My approach brings just the right amount of story arch, wine knowledge, simplicity, and hosting know-how so you and your guests can learn about each other, what you love, and grow together in your experiences.I write downloadable playbooks so you can do it yourself. I offer coaching support to help you design and throw an amazing party. And I offer facilitation support if you want something there every step of the way.Whichever option you choose - you have my commitment that it will be Your Wine. In Your Home. Your Way.

Hopkins, Minnesota

Led a team of Project Managers and Program Managers who oversaw the majority of Cargill's improvement and global standardization projects and programs for shared functions where technology was an enabler. Those shared functions included Finance, Business Operations and Supply Chain, and Human Resources. Team size >50 with an active portfolio >100 projects, representing >$150M in spend and global technology delivery responsibility.

Hopkins, Mn

Led global functional programs across finance and supply chain with three different categories of programs. As a senior program leader, I was also involved in establishing best practices globally, training, mentoring, contracting, and overseeing other project managers.Categories of programs included:- Planned and implemented technology-enabled processes with a global footprint including the design that balanced the needs of global centers with localization and enterprise-specific needs- Design of function-wide strategy changes that involved defining the vision for the function, new scope and service design, and new ways to leverage the people power of Cargill- Laid the foundations for common process and methodology alignment to expedite implementations while still capturing local and business nuancesMy focus area was in early stage program definition and planning work, with an emphasis on vision clarity, business case development, structural planning, governance and decision-making design and facilitation, and initial pilots for large-scale global investments.I typically worked two-in-a-box with a business lead and we co-created the vision of the program. The focus of the business lead included expertise in their field, final decision making on business-impacting decisions, and bringing the functional and enterprise relationships needed to deliver on a global solution.

Eagan, Mn

Managed a portfolio of projects, strategic programs, and governance initiatives to ensure the customer value exchange is optimized using expertise, information, process, and infrastructure to deliver this experience and delight our clients at scale.Spotlight project: Data transformation that focused on shifting the culture to make data-driven decisions. The scope included every aspect of building a strategy and implementing a data transformation in organization from the cultural, adoption, mindset, system, tools, reporting, analytics, big data, and advanced analytics components of bringing data driven decisions to life.

Eagan, Mn

Improved the delivery of value (business development) for our clients by designing and building a capability to introduce and manage new value drivers to integrate into our portfolio of solutions.

Delivered organizational assessment, effectiveness, and transformation services to help clients achieve business results across various aspects of technology - and ultimately supporting the business objectives. Focus areas include process development (Service Management), SDLC assessments, Coaching & Leadership training, demand management build-out, Program Management, Service Design, and Infrastructure delivery.

Improved the reliability and experience for our field teams to better retain top advisors and improve the reliability of the user experience for end customers/investors by integrating release readiness and execution into the implementation planning schedule to create an enterprise view for contention analysis, implementation readiness, and field readiness.

Managed the relationship and contract arrangement with a large outsourcing partner to ensure effective operations and uptimes for internal and external customers. As part of this role, I was program owner on a service improvement initiative and led a 3rd party formal benchmarking exercise.

Improved return on investment for technology spend and optimized governance through contract negotiation, metrics and reporting, contingent staff management, process development and implementation.

Contract specialist in the IT space, predominantly dealing with services.

Managed a portfolio of 120 contracts (including international contracts and those with global resourcing) from small-scale resale contracts to dedicated client relationships with a $70M integrated communications program, including data center integration with a DMPVPN solution. Focus was on project office, purchasing, and financial management.

Maximized cost effectiveness. Administered 100 supplier contracts and developed metrics and reporting systems and acted as international plan liaison to consolidate global pricing and better leverage global scale in purchasing process. Worked with vendors and A/P on dispute issues and determined/negotiated resolution so we weren't overspending according to our agreements.