Vetted Change Management Professionals

“Cross-border (US/Canada) hockey advisor with extensive experience on both the business and operations sides across pro, minor, and junior organizations. Leverages deep relationships with coaches/scouts/GMs and a structured evaluation + development planning process to guide families through Prep/Academy, Junior, NCAA, and U Sports pathways; has helped an athlete jump two levels to Junior A via a targeted 6-month training and mental development plan.”

“Light industrial staffing operations leader who scaled from multi-unit branch manager to Market VP overseeing four Dallas–Fort Worth branches (~$63M annual volume) and 56–58 direct reports. Known for data-driven SOP/operations turnarounds that lifted revenue 30%+ and gross profit 25%+ (President’s Club top 10%), plus leading a multi-market Employee Bridge mobile app pilot and tightening E-Verify compliance for high-volume accounts like HelloFresh.”

“People/HR leader with deep org design and change-management experience, including leading a full-company restructuring at Mirimus in direct partnership with the CEO and VPs. Known for combining systems thinking with rigorous people analytics (engagement, churn, capacity, performance signals) to diagnose root causes, redesign operating models, and coach senior leaders through high-stakes transitions and ER situations.”

“Strategic HR leader with experience managing global teams (India/Brazil/Canada) and partnering on immigration and multi-country regulatory considerations. Has driven major org changes including implementing an attendance policy across 14 logistics locations and restructuring an HR department to align with growth, using a data-driven approach (turnover, time-to-hire, performance, exit interviews). Target compensation is around $150K, flexible based on total package.”

“Global HR leader who has managed teams across EMEA/APAC/Canada/Australia and led large-scale people initiatives spanning comp/benefits, recruiting, talent management, and employee experience. Notably modernized a manufacturing organization by implementing an AI-driven performance management system tied to operational KPIs, delivering major gains in engagement, customer satisfaction, culture, and internal promotions, and later drove a continuous-feedback performance overhaul with significant retention and manager-effectiveness improvements.”

“Operations and supply chain leader who has launched new service lines and driven large-scale process modernization—most notably spearheading a shift from fax/phone ordering to EDI to boost throughput and reduce staffing needs. Has executive committee leadership experience as a Chief Supply Chain Officer and has also project-managed clinical service expansions in outpatient healthcare settings using Microsoft Project (which they’ve taught as an adjunct professor).”

“HR/People leader with experience managing global teams and delivering complex HR/payroll system integrations (including an India-based support team) on schedule. Has built HR/onboarding teams and HRIS workflows from the ground up and partnered with senior leadership on high-impact change initiatives like a full return-to-office transition, including employee communications and backfill recruiting.”

“Infrastructure/automation engineer with experience bridging post-acquisition environments (Pandora + SiriusXM) by building an API-driven integration to provision Debian workloads on RHV while preserving iPXE-based imaging workflows. Strong in deep debugging across virtualization/network/OS layers (e.g., resolving virtio/vCPU contention causing network/NFS issues) and in extending automation tooling via custom Ansible/Python modules. Also has exposure to biomanufacturing on-prem devices (Hamiltons, shakers) alongside AWS microservices.”

“Founder of Pavtek Consulting LLC who acts as a hands-on technology leader for startups, building MVPs and full-stack AI products, custom ERPs, integrations, and AI agent chat tools. Notably led a major turnaround at Dyknow (EdTech), cutting major cloud waste and moving the business from a $500k annual loss to double profitability within two years before a successful acquisition.”

“Operations/people-ops leader who helped an industrial fabrication company (Carlucci) scale through a major contract by standardizing operations, rolling out iPad + barcode workflows, and building workforce planning/onboarding/succession systems—doubling headcount. Uses a structured 100-day diagnostic and KPI-driven operating cadence (dashboards, AOP, goal deployment, 9-box, DISC) and mentors founders/executives by translating operational detail into strategic decision-making.”

“President of Open Table, Inc. (food relief org) who modernized and scaled multi-site operations—moving intake/check-in to the cloud, implementing VolunteerHub to coordinate 750+ volunteers, and launching online ordering with curbside distribution during the pandemic. Strong in change management, end-user-driven process improvement, and using impact data/storytelling to align boards and teams on scaling decisions.”

“Operations/program leader with experience supporting CEOs and scaling organizations through rapid expansion and multi-team initiatives. Implemented RACI + Asana-based execution systems and built board/KPI reporting cadences that improved executive decision speed and visibility across departments. Has worked across startups and in a foundation environment in C-suite-adjacent roles.”

“Aspiring founder with ~15 years of experience across varied backgrounds, motivated by frustration with slow, change-resistant large organizations and a desire to bring innovative ideas to market. Familiar with how venture capital/accelerators function (though not directly worked in them) and expresses strong willingness to take entrepreneurial risks.”

“Operations leader from a hospital environment who manages distributed, multi-shift teams and applies product/analytics thinking to workflows and patient-care services. Partnered with senior leadership on major safety and emergency-preparedness changes (lockdown and disaster protocols) and has experience operating in a rapidly scaling healthcare organization (noted expansion to 26 hospitals in a year).”

“Growth/brand leader who drives measurable revenue outcomes through rebrands, GTM execution, and multi-channel acquisition. Has delivered on-time/on-budget website + brand rebuilds via sourced expert partners, improved conversion from 3% to 8% for an MSP using outsourced outbound, and helped an industrial manufacturer exceed a $2M revenue goal by reaching $3M through repositioning and market expansion.”

“Recruiting/people-ops leader at Marcy Lab School who partners directly with executive leadership to solve funnel and retention challenges. Designed a pre-orientation “Immersion Day” to reduce admitted-prospect drop-off and built a scalable diversity recruiting workflow by partnering with Black Girls Code to address a gender gap in the applicant pipeline.”

“People/HR leader in a manufacturing tech startup environment who partners directly with co-founders/CFO to drive org-wide change. Led a major shift to a Spotify-style squad model on the commercial side and uses engagement-survey analytics (including AI-assisted analysis) to guide management practices, restructures, and resource decisions while handling sensitive ER situations.”

“Former CEO of GravyWork with hands-on experience building an org-wide strategic plan and modernization roadmap for a growing company. Uses Michael Gerber’s innovation/orchestration/quantification framework and structured as-is/gap/to-be analysis to drive cost reduction, automation/outsourcing decisions, and leadership alignment through change.”

“Cloud/infrastructure engineer from ASM Research supporting federal healthcare systems, operating multi-cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) environments at ~2000-server scale. Deep hands-on experience with Terraform/Ansible IaC, PR-based governance (Atlantis), and secure CI/CD (OIDC/least privilege), with concrete incident response wins and HA/failover testing improvements. Not an IBM Power/AIX specialist but comfortable translating virtualization/partitioning and ops practices to new platforms.”