Lori Coupard Furman is a Founding Principal at azulin consulting. She possess expertise in project management, strategy, change management, leadership, cross functional team leadership and 22 more skills. Colleagues describe her as "In working with Lori on Chevron’s corporate IT efficiency program, I found her to be bright and hard-working partner, willingly working early or late on occasion to accommodate the schedules of overseas participating IT units. Moreover, she was cheerful and personable - a welcome addition to our team. She demonstrated the ability to quickly grasp underlying strategy/motivations for assigned project areas (notably the development of efficiency tools and methodologies). By the same token, she was consistently willing constructively to question and challenge any areas of perceived mis-alignment, which resulted in either better understanding for herself or, equally often, adjustments to the program approach. In general, I have found her to be technologically adept - particularly in the area of social computing - as well as a top-notch communicator - especially in formal presentations." and "Nearly twelve years ago when I was a brand new director at Gap Inc., I met Lori. I will assume the impressive details of Lori Furman’s curriculum vitae and the specifics of her successful track record are within the reader’s reach. My comments here are best focused on knowing her over many years as a team mate in a professional context, then, as luck would have it, knowing her and growing with her as a friend. Lori is unusually gifted with the tandem skills of an exceptional aesthetic and a business-school-like penchant for making the case, selling it, then making meaningful things happen. Whatever she manifests, is in the end, both functional and elegant. As she has advanced and developed in her career, this keen ability to apply the practical (her project management skills are exceptional) coupled with her off-the-charts creativity (ask to see her photography--she went to art school) has consistently impressed me both in her work style and her work product. I’ve watched her develop and improve teams who report to her and those on which she was a peer. She can’t help it—she wants to make things better and she does so with passion and a great attention to detail. Several times in her career she has had to adjust and has excelled in changing and difficult environments – reorganizations and massive layoffs among them. Her self-reflective style has helped others to adapt and has enabled her to get out of her own way when she needed so she can rise to a new set of challenges. The result: Strong working relationships. I know this. We have been though many changes together at work and we’re stronger because of it. Hire this woman. Put a tough project in front of her without a team and with limited resources and she’ll surprise and delight you. Support her creativity and passion with a team and a reasonable budget and extraordinary things will happen. Lori will see to it."