Nicole Samuel (Lynn) Email & Phone Number

• Consulting: Consult senior executives / C-Suite leaders to provide clarity and confidence in planning/roadmaps based on client ambitions/strategy. Leverage frameworks to improve decisions and execute use cases. Support organizations in their journey to data-driven enterprises. Drive transformation to accelerate data/analytics strategies. Deliver insights based on industry trends, best practices, and benchmarks. • Leadership: Lead diverse teams of consultants and orchestrate work.• Communication: Influence executive leaders to make decisions. Excellent communication and presentation skills with high emotional intelligence.• Relationship-building: Build strong trust-based partnerships at all levels/geographies. • Coaching: Coach junior associates and shepherd performance management. Redesigned a training curriculum using blended learning techniques, refreshed training modules for increased virtual engagement. • Project Management: Manage simultaneous projects, activities, and people. Employ agile principles. Excellent at context-switching, handling multiple priorities, and time management. Versed in change management and risk management. • Business Development: Architect, sell, and deliver consulting solutions based on understanding of customer needs and use cases. Develop compelling presentations to support delivery and IP. • Product Management: Co-lead a global team (on the business side) to develop a platform that is leveraged for data-driven skills insights. • Early Talent Recruiting: Build relationships with schools, conduct brand awareness events, develop employee value propositions, interview/assess candidates, maintain student engagement, analyze pipeline, engage broad stakeholders, and provide recommendations for hiring decisions. Consultant: July 2014 - Apr 2016Sr Consultant: Apr 2016 - Apr 2017Associate Director: Apr 2017 – Feb 2020Director: Feb 2020 - August 2022Senior Director: September 2022 - Present

Bangalore, India

•Met with internal groups to analyze needs and refine project scope.•Provided recommendations for inventory optimization using statistical forecasting techniques in SAS.•Achieved significant process improvements to a supplier order process through process mapping and leveraging technology.•Researched and utilized supply chain best practices, and benchmarked best practices against successful multinational companies.•Identified a business development opportunity through competitor and industry analysis. Developed a strategy, ran a cost-benefit analysis, and provided an implementation plan that would position The Mahindra Group as a first mover and open a new revenue stream.

Chicago, Il

Worked with Local First Chicago as a pro bono consultant to deliver communication strategies that aimed to increase brand awareness, engage 8000 member subscribers, and increase organization revenue.

Oak Park

•Co-developed and managed a food retailer and healthy food access program. Provided consulting to food retail store owners to increase effectiveness of product placement and in-store promotion.•Worked closely with local government health agencies to build a coalition and find strategic alliances in the private, non-profit, and public sectors.•Built partnerships with produce and food distributors to improve supplier diversity, and managed new equipment logistics for 21 food retailer locations. •Created and implemented promotion strategies to stimulate community demand for healthy food products. •Managed communication processes and developed communication messages to build awareness and provide guidance to project stakeholders. Marketing materials/messages included: website content/layout, promotional materials, email marketing, and a resource toolkit. Initiated, designed and implemented a quarterly newsletter to improve communication with stakeholders.•Led the recruitment and training process of 75 Review Panelists to provide independent recommendations on how to allocate $4 million in grants.

•Led a cross-functional team of senior management to redesign a new account process that increased efficiency and capacity, created organizational structure, and improved communication across departments. Utilized process mapping and MS Project tools to cut lead-time down from 8 weeks to 4 weeks.•Initiated a corporate strategy and operations alignment by facilitating department integration, which increased efficiency. •Created a sales training and incentive program for Client Services, which led to increased sales revenue.•Analyzed sales data and developed an executable sales strategy, which resulted in increased revenue across 90% of accounts.

Greater St. Louis Area

•Promoted three times with a proven history of creating value. •Hired, trained, and managed 50 office staff throughout a four-statewide division.•Planned and conducted weekly conference calls, monthly meetings, and quarterly workshops to improve performance and development of office staff.•Developed human capital strategies to staff division growth plans. •Analyzed statistics and recommended strategies to increase sales rep recruitment, which increased over 50% in 2006 and 2007.•Redesigned a recruitment tool, which led to increased recruits and was later adopted by another company division.

Greater St. Louis Area

•Contributed to division growth of 325% within two years.•Conducted market research for division expansion in new cities. •Member of a sales team that broke summer sales records, including summer campaign sales over $1 million.

Talent Analytics Certificate

Pmp

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Business Administration And Management, General

Activities and Societies: President, International Business Society

Bs, Business Management

Activities and Societies: VP of International Business Club