Recent Projects
Interim and Turnaround Executive
- Co - CEO of $1.25 billion marketing company. Executed short term turnaround plan. Reduced one year expected losses by 50%. Succeeded by head of Chrysler Marketing
- Interim GM of $250M manufacturing division. Established operating plan that improved on time delivery from 10% to 90% in one year.
- Led restructuring of $25M dollar acquisition for one of the largest privately held companies in US.
Executive Leader of Corporate Initiatives and Projects
- Designed initiative that reduced warranty costs by $120M in two years.
- Led initiative that successfully resolved union organizing effort at $2.5 billion company
- Designed and Implemented initiative to engage and empower 30,000 employees. Achieved company's employee satisfaction goals.
- Launched wholly owned Global Procurement subsidiary with $5Bin spend for $46B company.
Executive Team Consultant
- Supported President of $7.5B decentralized organization in the design and implementation of "One Company" strategy to grow revenues and reduce operating costs.
- Coached procurement team overseeing $12B spend to develop strategic plan and improve their alignment. They led their organization to save $800M in one year.
- Facilitated leadership team of $3.5B organization to resolve internal communication issues between leader and team. Developed ongoing process to have tough conversations and resolve conflict.
- Led cross-functional executive operations team of commercial and military aerospace business for one year to achieve “One Company” synergies.
- Designed and institutionalized strategic planning and organizational performance management processes in:
- $7.5B aerospace division
- $12B procurement function
- Division of Pentagon with $40B in annual spend
- Marketing function for world media leader
Executive Meeting Facilitation
- Facilitated over 1000 meetings for senior executives to improve strategic planning, operational execution and team effectiveness.
- Designed and led executive leadership offsites over eight years for top 250 executives of $11B organization to align on strategy, operational and leadership issues.
- Led “Game Changer” meetings with CEO of $7.5B company. Top 50 leaders created and implemented gamechanging
initiatives to grow the business and take out costs.
- Facilitated strategy meetings for senior Pentagon officials overseeing $40B annual budget
- Facilitated union organizing meetings between disgruntled employees and senior management diffuse anger and collaboratively develop a going forward plan averting a union organizing