Colleen has over 20 years of experience in business strategy planning process re-engineering performance management marketing and sales operations. She has held senior level strategy sales management and management consulting positions with Fortune 500 companies. Colleen has assisted clients across industries in strategy alignment key performance metric and management planning and process improvement initiatives.
Professional Experience
Prior to joining Huron Colleen was a senior director at a financial and business operational management consulting firm. She was also senior director at a global $890M independent information technology research and consulting services company. Colleen held several vice president roles at a global $4B technology services company that provided high-tech equipment financing asset management business continuity and venture financing solutions. She also spent 11 years at a multinational computer technology corporation in various sales sales management and management consulting positions.
Specific areas where Colleen and her teams have assisted clients include:
Enterprise risk management (ERP) working capital management rolling forecasts acceleration of financial close and ERP optimization projects.
Financial strategy finance models and implementation of the finance organization infrastructure.
Enterprise information technology environment cost and performance benchmarking.
Information technology service transformation including implementation of a new organization model service catalog transfer pricing model process-based management and performance scorecard techniques.
Process improvement analysis to transition an information technology organization to a service-oriented business model utilizing ITIL and CMMI methodologies.
Education & Certifications
Bachelor of Arts Business Administration and Marketing St. Norbert College DePere WI
Wharton Business School Financial Services Executive Program
Northwestern University Kellogg Executive Education Program
Civic Involvement
Colleen is also an active board member of the Springboard Foundation which supports small under-funded and grass-roots after-school programs in Chicago's most impoverished neighborhoods. Springboard is committed to improving the lives of inner-city children in Chicago through significant personal time and financial donations.
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