Tom Simon Email & Phone Number

Glencoe, Il, Us

As CEO at Exceleras, I’m accountable for bringing our intended brand to life by aligning how we think, act, work and lead internally with how we’d like to be perceived externally. This includes aligning all our customer touch points into a seamless and compelling customer experience from point of first contact through sales, marketing, product development, activation, service and support. I’m also focused on continuously reinventing our company and building a powerful ecosystem of strategic partners to offer significantly more value to our industry.Exceleras offers a premier, web-based real estate transaction management platform. Our flexible workflow management system saves time and money by accelerating the property disposition process through a flexible, cost-effective platform that simplifies complexity, provides easy access to critical information and ensures full compliance and accountability.

We are a boutique “sweat equity” firm specializing in enterprise value creation. We work side-by-side with owners, investors and leaders of small and mid-cap businesses to prepare for the next phase of their business evolution – whatever that needs to be. We work in “The Transformation Zone”, to identify, prioritize and execute action plans to reinvigorate growth, reinvent the next growth platform, or to maximize value to exit gracefully.

Cary, Il, Us

• Transformed sales organization by developing new selling process, management development programs and field coaching tools.• Facilitated development of human capital strategy to accelerate execution of company’s transformation efforts. • Implemented talent review process with new performance standards to assess talent to support restructuring of field organization. Provided supporting tools, practices, and manager training to institutionalize new practices. Facilitated executive team calibration workshops to drive consistent assessment decisions.

Rosemont, Il, Us

• Collaborated with sales leadership team to drive 4%+ year-over-year improvement in revenue performance through increased focus on performance management, coaching tools, and new selling model. • Designed and implemented new selling process, supporting sales curriculum, onboarding process, and new-hire compensation program, reducing time to productivity of newly hired sales professionals.• Identified standards of high performance for sales leaders and implemented through new sales talent review process.• Led culture integration, change management, and leadership alignment strategy to prepare for the successful integration of two industry-leading companies. Completed comprehensive culture assessment of each company and developed integration plan. Facilitated culture workshops for over 1,200 leaders and reinforced learning through weekly “lessons,” coaching, and alignment activities. Designed and implemented “employee promoter score” survey measuring engagement and movement towards desired culture.• Built and implemented practical change management approach and leader tool kit aligning multiple transformation efforts targeted for sales organization. Created and deployed regional “leading change” workshops providing leaders with skills to lead teams deployment of change initiatives.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Partnered with Columbia Business School to facilitate strategic planning process with top 200 leaders, with outcomes including winning proposition for enterprise, key customer segments, and detailed plan aligning talent, organization, and culture to new strategic direction.• Spearheaded enterprise initiative creating sales oriented culture, helping to drive top-line growth. Solutions included new sales disciplines, software tools, sales playbook, skills training, and talent assessment process identifying competencies differentiating high performers. • Designed and implemented leadership development strategy, including leadership competencies, 360-degree assessment tools, and development programs for first time, front line managers, officer-level, and high-potential talent. • Redesigned enterprise talent review process and tools to simplify and put greater emphasis on succession planning, critical roles, and movement of high-potential talent. • Developed and deployed talent strategy and workforce plan for critical roles, with solutions focused on proactively building talent pipeline, accelerating development of feeder positions, and creating development paths to build key talent internally.

Palo Alto, Ca, Us

• Implemented global talent review process, impacting 20,000 leaders in 34 countries across three regions, facilitating selection, promotion, and rewards decisions. • Drove executive recruiting process, placing over 150 VPs with average internal/external fill time of less than 60 days.• Delivered global job rotation program, accelerating development of high-potential talent.• Designed executive assessment program and standardized 360-degree feedback tools, guiding development of top 600+ leaders.

Deerfield, Illinois, Us

• Facilitated redesign, integration, and change management for R&D and product development functions, improving product launch process and creating more effective go-to-market capability. • Directed design and implementation of new global performance management and goal setting process, including training of 1,400 senior leaders, building high-performing culture.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

• Drove strategy development, implementation and change acceleration for “future state” of global HR organization; engaged CEO/COO, increasing HR value and lowering cost. • Instituted Six Sigma rapid redesign sessions, simplifying and improving effectiveness of HR platforms. Introduced and facilitated global workshops, aligning talent and HR practices to desired culture and business objectives. Architected compelling case for e-business, quantified value, and attained sponsorship of senior management team. Guided implementation of e-procurement strategy, saving $50,000,000 in twelve months with solution ultimately exceeding $1,700,000,000 in purchases. Developed web migration plan, translating 5000+ sites and 3,000,000+ pages into 12 seamless web experiences.• Built capability of HR team to manage acquisitions and divestitures by defining and deploying standardized processes, tools, and training. • Overhauled staffing function, including external web recruiting strategy and supporting processes and systems, enabling significant business growth through high-volume hiring of highly technical talent. Improved customer satisfaction, quantity, and cycle time of hiring. Doubled rate of hires in six months while reducing cost per hire by 10%.• Generated and implemented human resource strategies aligning talent to business objectives. Implemented strategies for workplace literacy and transition, selection testing and assessment (received CEO Quality Award), empowerment, and performance management. Achieved first ever Gold Medal for HR team and special award for creativity in total customer satisfaction competition. Saved business nearly $1,000,000 per year and avoided significant legal risk.

Fellowship Program, Business Transformation

Mba, Business Management

Bs, Computer Science