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Bentonville, Ar, Us

Bentonville Ar

As the CEO of Pivotal Solutions, I lead a consultancy focused on empowering businesses to achieve transformational growth and sustainable success. Since founding the company, I've guided the strategic evolution of over 50 companies, helping them shift from operationally focused models to strategically driven enterprises. My approach combines high-level strategy, executive coaching, and hands-on solutions to deliver measurable results.Key Focus Areas & Achievements:📈 Strategic Business Consulting: Directed growth strategies for 50+ companies, enabling them to scale profitably and efficiently.🗣️ Executive Coaching & Leadership Development: Provided customized coaching for CEOs and entrepreneurs, enhancing leadership skills, team dynamics, and strategic focus.🎤 Keynote Speaking & Workshops: Regularly engage as a public speaker, delivering impactful keynotes on business growth, leadership, and women’s empowerment at conferences and corporate events.📊 Customized Business Strategies: Crafted bespoke strategic plans tailored to clients’ unique goals and market positions.🎯 KPI-Driven Execution: Designed and implemented strategies with clear milestones, ensuring tangible and sustainable growth.🔍 Market Insights & Adaptability: Aligned client strategies with evolving industry trends to keep them competitive and agile.At Pivotal Solutions, we specialize in strategic growth, leadership development, and public speaking engagements that inspire actionable change. My mission is to help businesses pivot, innovate, and thrive, driving impactful transformation and long-term success.Let’s connect if you’re interested in strategic consulting, leadership coaching, or booking me for speaking engagements!

Arkansas, United States

As the Founder & CEO of Jane Wick, I lead a brand dedicated to empowering women in the world of shooting sports through thoughtfully designed, stylish, and functional gear. Recognizing a gap in the market for women-specific shooting accessories, I launched Jane Wick to provide a range of high-quality gun range backpacks and gear that merge beauty with utility, offering female shooters the confidence, comfort, and practicality they deserve.🌟 What We Believe:At Jane Wick, our mission is to enhance—not hinder—the shooting experience with products that are crafted with meticulous attention to detail:🎒 Ergonomic Design: Padded straps and back support for all-day comfort.🗂️ Organization Solutions: Multiple compartments for streamlined organization of firearms, ammo, and personal items.💎 Durability Meets Style: High-quality materials that are both rugged and aesthetically appealing—because functionality and beauty can go hand in hand.🔥 Our MissionWe aim to redefine the standard for women’s shooting gear, helping women from all backgrounds—whether seasoned shooters or newcomers—feel empowered and prepared. Set to launch in Spring 2024, Jane Wick products represent more than just equipment; they’re tools of confidence, strength, and individuality.🚀 Hands-on LeadershipAs CEO, I’m deeply involved in every aspect of Jane Wick’s growth:📦 Product Development & Market Positioning📊 Brand Strategy & Customer Experience🤝 Community Building: Creating a space where women can confidently explore their interests with gear that truly supports their journey.

Northwest Arkansas

Opened a new franchise for interior and exterior residential and light commercial and painting. Served all of Northwest Arkansas and grew the business each year. Due to the franchise’s growth, customer base, and good financials, we were able to sell the company as a profitable enterprise in Q4 2020.• Managed day-to-day finances in Quickbooks, as well as monthly financial and goals meetings.• Marketed online via Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, and ad scheduling.• Marketed offline through flyers, signs, local business connections, and lead generators, including networking at 3-5 events per week. • Achieved sale close rate between 40-60%.• Served as project manager, ensuring each job started on time, stayed on budget, and was completed to the customer’s satisfaction.• Coordinated with vendors and suppliers to get quality products while managing costs.

Bentonville, Arkansas

Served as a subject matter expert for the division and communicated recommendations to cross-functional teams. Ensured resolutions of store specific merchandising issues to fit local store needs that can be leveraged across the division. Consulted with divisional leadership regarding solutions, touring stores, reviewing merchandising reports, identifying customer and operational needs and recognizing barriers and obstacles that impact performance, and reviewing competitor’s merchandising programs.• Established national strategy of team sports, spring break/resort, and tax time adding over $50,000,000 in incremental sales. • Identified and negotiated additional $13,000,000 in water toys and $12,000,000 in bicycles and accessories for 668 north central division stores. • Designed process to integrate small format stores into store of community resort strategy.

Walmart Headquarters Bentonville Ar

Led company’s largest convenient store region of 60 fuel/convenience stores located in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia, which included extensive travel. Opened 44 new fuel stations across U.S. Drove growth by assessing economic trends, changing demographics, competitive market share, and customer needs, and implementing plans to exceed sales and profit goals.• Achieved same-store sales increase of 81% and 104% of plan.• Traveled regularly to verify compliance and supported new stations and sustainability of processes. • Formed and directed fuel leadership council-meeting for fuel leadership to listen to field associates to further enhance business. • Conducted monthly training and education WebEx for 50 participants on business critical topics such as replenishment and pricing for hourly and management associates.

Bentonville, Arkansas

Orchestrated content development from concept to delivery for company career development “pathway” and leadership training (Leader2Leader), including project management, budget spend, resource allocation, measuring progress, reporting results, and translating business needs between corporate office and field associates. • Presented content to top ten chief executive audience, including CEO and president of company to receive support/approval for company career “pathway” strategy and budget. Rolled-out programs company-wide in second quarter of 2015.• Recognized with three awards for Leader2Leader program:o “Brandon Hall excellence in learning”.o Gold in “best advance in custom content”.o Silver “best advance in competencies and skill development”.o Bronze “best use of games and simulations”. • Received “you rock” award for field liaison ability to translate field needs into actions.

Bentonville Arkansas

Charged with opening 180 neighborhood market formats in Eastern and Western U.S., including traveling to 24 cities to identify business needs and opportunities to capture incremental market share. Provided implementation support, measuring progress and results. Oversaw 180 new store managers and 12 new market managers, including development of emerging market resource pages on company intranet and monthly financial recaps. Hosted and facilitated monthly television broadcasts to deliver operational direction. • Drove visibility to project and program performance by developing and tracking performance metrics and score card reporting tools and providing updates to senior leadership.• Provided region same-store sales increase of 20% and SOI increase of 152% from executed action plans of gap analyses.• Recognized with 15 letters of recommendation from market store regional and divisional managers.

Tulsa Ok

Oversaw $20,000,000 store operations with four salaried managers and 90 hourly associates. Provided guidance and coaching. Drove store sales, financial analysis, and budget control. Participated in community programs. • Achieved highest market customer experience survey net score of 8.7, versus market 7.7, region 7.5, and company 7.5. • Improved profitability by 17bp YOY change.• Remained associate accident free for 435 days by attending all safety meetings and establishing safety as first priority.• Received store nomination for Helen Walton award for outstanding community involvement.

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

Led multiple cross functional teams for specialty businesses inside stores. Used business metrics and reports to identify opportunities for improving performance in 12 Walmart stores. • Conducted quarterly training for hourly supervisors, including interviewing, hiring and training.• Effectively managed market-level customer concerns and built trusting and collaborative relationships inside and outside the organization. Promoted team-based work environment that embraced, and valued diversity. • Held weekly multi-facility tours to ensure brand image, company direction, and competitor comparisons. • Conducted weekly conference calls; set priorities for upcoming week.

Tulsa, Oklahoma Area

Ranked top-performing co-manager in market. Managed 450 hourly associates and salaried managers. Conducted daily store tours, ensuring brand image, compliance, and shrink controls. Engaged associates. Performed successful profit and loss management, including financial analysis, budget control, and revenue forecasting, communicating daily, weekly, and monthly goals. Led inventory flow process, managing on-hand accuracy, staffing, and managerial routines, and ensuring merchandise was replenished and in stock. § Taught effective inventory flow processes to unit leaders. § Collaborated with external partners, such as home office replenishment, buyers, and outside vendors on inventory replenishment process.§ Opened ground-up Walmart Supercenter in Glenpool, Oklahoma.

Spokane, Washington Area

Conducted interviewing, hiring, scheduling, training, coaching, and separation of hourly and management associates. Opened new company supercenters in Oklahoma, Washington, and Idaho. Hosted company generational diversity event, teaching different thoughts and points of view.• Received certificate of excellence award for hosting food school in meat, seafood, bakery, deli, and produce. • Achieved number one garden sales in 2000. Recognized as top seller of lawn décor, plastic pots, bee traps, and whisky barrels.• Earned 12 “great job” awards from company corporate office and received stock shares in recognition.

Business Management, Retail Management

Certificate

Store Manager Track, Leadership Academy

Activities and Societies: Graduated

Mechanical Engineering