Sam Reid Email & Phone Number

Longmont, CO, US

Boulder, Colorado

• Overall focus: Help people who want to change the world solve whatever problem is in front of themSample projects:
• Top Team Alignment: Co-designed and co-facilitated the process for strengthening leadership, teamwork, and project delivery on a global network of multi-billion dollar technology facilities
• Strategy Development & Org Design: Co-led the process of creating the strategy, theory of change, decision-making approach, employee satisfaction scorecard, and organizational structure for a 60+ million dollar.
• Project-level Culture Creation: Led an organizational culture diagnostic and design process for a 150+ person project team on a multi-billion-dollar construction project
• Change Agent Boot Camp: Designed and facilitated national convention focused on building the capability of 100+ educational fellows for a large national non-profit
• Organizational Character Development: Designed a delivered a series of workshops and other organizational interventions to help a multi-billion dollar high tech general contractor set a new standard for high character.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Co-created organization-wide approach for embedding value innovation skills and methodologies within several Fortune 100 organizations
• Co-developed methodology for combining design thinking, value innovation, and emerging creativity enhancement approaches into client-facing workshops

Boston, MA

• Designed and delivered change leader workshops for one of the top 5 largest US government agencies and a Fortune 100 durable good manufacturer
• Co-developed value proposition approach and pitch deck for top 5 global professional services firm
• Co-designed & developed negotiation workshop for one of the top 5 largest hospital networks in the US
• Developed client proposals for over $5M in leadership development work in first 60 days

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Led 2011 strategy and team alignment retreat for Executive Leadership Team
• Advised team on a wide variety of organizational design decisions
• Designed and implemented organizational character assessment
• Built team capability in using RASCI model for governance and decision making
• Designed and facilitated customized workshop on ethical decision making

Boulder, CO

• Overall Focus: Help clients combine strategy and technology to do more of what matters.
• Consulting services: Growth strategy development, technology strategy development, leadership development workshop design & implementation, executive coaching, team functionality assessment & improvement.
• Technology services: Identification, customization, and implementation of the cloud-based technology solution best suited to drive value for clients (Salesforce.com, Amazon Cloud, iphone apps,etc.)

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Led strategy development workshop for top team
• Co-founded Ashoka Twin Cities Advisory Council
• Co-launched task force for strengthening relationships with corporate partners

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Co-developed a 5 year public sector strategy for deploying $35M per year in agricultural supply chain investments designed to have the largest possible impact on reducing poverty & malnutrition in Kenya
• Leveraged front-line capability building & lean tools (visual management, 5S, Kaizen, etc.) to capture $44M in cumulative value across 3 performance transformations within the energy & basic materials industries
• Led 20 workshops, published 6 best practice documents, drove impact on 3 client teams, & shaped global approach to client capability building as a Fellow in McKinsey’s “Capability for Performance (C4P)” initiative
• Co-led re-structuring of marketing & sales organization within a healthcare client serving over 60M individuals
• Co-developed leadership development program for 20 retail executives managing change projects worth $2B+
• Led the development of a new service line to help clients develop organizational character and beat over 370 other teams to take it to the global finals of McKinsey’s Practice Olympics internal innovation competition

Washington DC

• Evaluated & closed 4 deals with an average anticipated internal rate of return (IRR) of 21% and an average social return on investment (SROI) of $85 ($85 of social financial benefit for every $1 invested).
• Successful deals included a mobile phone sharing startup preparing to serve over 1M East Africans, a labor mobilization startup serving 8,000 workers in India, a mobile banking & virtual voucher startup in Zambia, and.
• Co-created pipeline of over 50 promising social investments in 5 targeted low-GDP Asian markets and led capability building, engagement monitoring, and productivity improvement efforts for 22 person staff

Ahmedabad Area, India

• Conducted due diligence on 2 social enterprises serving over 1M beneficiaries in Ahmedabad, India
• Built financial model that revealed infeasibility of 20-plant water purification startup & co-led model re-design
• Developed business plan & financial model required to raise funds for private spin-off of leading Indian NGO

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Launched consulting practice during two month delay prior to deployment to India with the MBA Enterprise Corps
• Developed strategy for an innovation system for capturing, prioritizing, & investing in new employee ideas that was deployed across 12 offices
• Developed top team workshop for helping senior leaders resolve the 5 dysfunctions of a team

Cleveland/Akron, Ohio Area

• Leveraged front-line capability building & lean tools (visual management, 5S, Kaizen, etc.) to transform the performance of a large scale industrial plant in rural Tennessee
• Co-developed front-line performance coaching process and method for measuring coaching impact across 35 front line supervisors

San Francisco Bay Area

• Developed organizational design & launch strategy for an operations function of a market-leading internet media company serving 20 global markets
• Built a roadmap to guide a team of Director-level leaders through the implementation of 60+ initiatives
• Created an internal project selection & risk management process for 5 internal operations verticals

Greater Denver Area

• Performed and/or sold $500K worth of leadership & organizational development projects in first 12 months
• Led a startup client through a cultural design process that helped them create $1B in backlog in 18 months
• Launched a new product offering centered around assessment-based recruitment, hiring, & retention
• Led 75+ one-on-one DISC, MBTI, Natural Ability Battery, and/or 360° Feedback interpretation sessions

29 Countries In 24 Months

• Built homes & volunteered with Thai forensics teams during the tsunami relief effort in Phuket, Thailand
• Taught and entertained handicapped children at Mother Teresa’s Nabo Jibon orphanage in Calcutta, India
• Evaluated curriculum & taught English as a volunteer teacher at Quzhou Middle School in Quzhou, China
• Summitted Mt. Kilimanjaro (Elev. 19,340 feet)

Greater San Diego Area

• Built an Employee Improvement Program that made Training Magazine’s 2002 “Training Top 100” (# 60)
• Facilitated DPR’s successful effort to become San Diego’s “Best Company to Work For” in 2003
• Improved employee training satisfaction from 80% to 93% approval in 12 months
• Trained & evaluated 60 trainers while developing over 40 technical & interpersonal training courses

Greater San Diego Area

• Completed $54M worth of biotech construction projects on time and under-budget
• Earned customer satisfaction ratings at or above “Best in Class” on 100% of projects
• Wrote scope documents and negotiated contracts with over 35 different construction trades per project
• Managed project budgets, assessed financial risks, monitored cash flow, and created profit forecasts

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