Functional Skills

Change Management / Org Design
Financial Modeling
Human Capital Consulting
Communications
Brand Strategy

Software Skills

Microsoft Excel
Microsoft PowerPoint

Certifications

CMSChange Management Specialist

Sector Experience

Travel & Hospitality
Media & Entertainment
Business Services
Social & Public Sector
Consumer Goods

Languages

French
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Jobs Completed

232
hours

Total Hours Logged

25
years

Years of Experience


Experience

 
Sutherland Consulting Management Consulting
Founder, Strategy & Change
01/2016 - Present
Strategy, Purpose, and Transformation consultant advising Fortune 100, SMEs, start-ups, and early-stage businesses.
• Worked with Fortune 70 company to build a coalition for change, to define a change vision/ambition across all operating model levers to conduct current state assessments and change impacts analyses to determine opportunities for change plan and road map.
• Collaborated with major Sports Team Alliance in M&A transactions, target valuations, and Integration (multi-million dollar acquisition and integration); reviewing licencing and sponsorship deals, devising strategic brand growth opportunities; devised communications and brand strategy.
• Partnered with the serial entrepreneur in the Fashion and Hospitality space on financial modeling, real estate, F&B, and strategy initiatives to launch a new fashion-focused Experiential Marketing business (pre-money).
Additional projects in Fashion, Real Estate, Media, Retail and beyond

Millward Brown Vermeer Management Consulting
Partner, Purpose & Change Practice
09/2014 - 01/2016
As marketing strategy consultants, we developed purpose-led brand strategy, positioning and change management initiatives to drive engagement and transformation. As co-Lead on all projects, I scoped project parameters, project pricing, budgeting, staffing and business development for brand strategy, brand repositioning, traditional research projects, brand alignment and change projects for major professional services firm, a leading CPG company and a nationally recognized public university.

Hitchcock Partners Management Consulting
Partner, Brand & Growth Strategy
01/2011 - 08/2014
We were a brand growth boutique aligning clients’ brands with their stories to drive top line growth. We believed that a business and its story are inseparable and that understanding and addressing one without the other undermines growth potential. Our expertise is in addressing both, articulating that story and operationalizing it. We worked with clients in Fashion, Food and Beverage, Hospitality, Tradeshows and Events, and Fitness.

Sutherland Consulting Management Consulting
Founder, Strategy & Change
08/2002 - 01/2011
Business Development and Strategy consultancy advising start-ups, early-stage and middle market businesses on a wide range of strategic issues and challenges. We worked with clients in New Media, Media and Entertainment, Hospitality, Real Estate, Food and Beverage, Fashion, Professional Services, Healthcare, Special Events, and Marketing.

Lagardere Active NA Media & Communications
SVP, New Business Development
10/2001 - 08/2002
I oversaw new business development activities of Lagardere Active NA focusing on operations of Hachette Filipacchi Media brands (Elle, Elle Decor, Car & Driver, Road & Track, RV World, and Premiere Magazine.)

USA Networks, Inc/InterActive Corp Media & Communications
VP, Strategic Planning
01/1999 - 06/2001
Reporting into the Office of the Chairman, I reviewed, valued and qualified acquisition and investment candidates, potential JV partners and corporate divestiture alternatives.