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Chicago, IL, US

• Spearheaded competitor audit, market positioning, and execution roadmap for a global hotel brand relaunch
• Directed strategic operations and capability development for a LMM healthcare firm

Chicago, IL, US

• Established Business Operations & Strategy function for this growth-stage SaaS company, serving on the company’s leadership team. A highly entrepreneurial and collaborative role responsible for driving commercial.
• Transformed commercial strategy and GTM capabilities to accelerate growth of core solutions, including: detailed segmentation and targeting; harmonized processes/tooling/analytics across sales funnel; and.
• Transformed business operations and developed new capabilities for CEO-level business priorities to support scalable growth across multiple phases of the business's evolution
• Led business development and initial launch of new solutions, rapidly iterating go-to-market, value proposition, business model, and pricing across 10 customer sell-inpitches and related competitive intelligence..
• Directed team that provided data-led insights and analytics in support of internal business decisioning and engagement of external audiences

Springdale, AR, US

• Led executive-level strategy initiatives, reporting to SVP of Corporate Strategy. Stepped into enterprise strategy leadership role for 8-months following departure of SVP of Corporate Strategy, charged with a) steering.
• Drove development of Tyson’s new enterprise strategy and multi-year plan
• Led enterprise-wide response and tactical 12-month execution planning to address customer and channel disruption
• Guided international expansion strategy and M&A targeting for the International business unit
• Steered annual strategic planning process and synthesis of consumer, category, and channel situational assessments to inform incremental opportunity areas and capability needs
• Served as enterprise futurist and market intelligence lead to forecast and plan against longer-term market disruption

Chicago, IL, US

• Founded Business Strategy practice within a innovation consultancy reporting to company’s founders and responsible for practice's day-to-day operations, business development, and client engagements. Focused on helping.
• Directed discovery and commercialization of new businesses, such as prototyping 2 new business concepts in 8-weeks and leading consumer goods company to enter new growth category from project start to shelf in 12-months
• Led Fortune 500 companies to define and establish new internal innovation groups and capabilities, spanning from establishing team charters through organizational design
• Guided executive teams to forecast and seize upon longer-term market disruption ranging from understanding start-ups reshaping industries to scenario planning the ‘future of’ sports
• Drove incubation, business plan creation, and commercialization of start-ups as embedded member of start-up team

Worldwide, OO

Led C-suite strategic initiatives in retail, CPG, and healthcare industries. Managed teams of up to 12 consultants, receiving consistent praise for developing firm-leading consultants. Chief of Staff for the Retail Strategy practice.

Worldwide, OO

Owned development and analysis of growth and operational initiatives across a breadth of industries and functions.

Munich, DE

Directed competitive cost benchmarking and reverse engineering of radiopharmaceutical cyclotrons (particle accelerators that produce isotopes for radiological testing), identifying design improvements and cost reduction levers to improve competitiveness when selling globally.

Kansas City, Missouri, US

Established subsidiaries in France, the United Kingdom, and Spain as initial ‘on-the-ground’ expatriate tasked with delivering country-specific product strategies, building local market consulting organization, and leading post-acquisition technology integration. Directly managed teams up to 12.

Kansas City, Missouri, US

Directed data warehousing start-up’s operational development and product management creating delivery model and training content utilized on global level.

Mba

Bba, International Business; Cis