Vetted Change Management Professionals

Jeannine Brooks

Screened ReferencesModerate rec.

Executive product and delivery leader specializing in enterprise software and FinTech

Shelton, CT26y exp

“Product leader in accounting software who drove a legacy desktop application’s transition into a cloud SaaS platform, including security redesign, browser-based UX modernization, and ML-assisted accounting workflows. Stands out for combining deep domain knowledge in finance operations with practical change management, stakeholder alignment, and team leadership that improved quality while cutting backlog nearly in half.”

“Manufacturing and operations leader (industrial engineer turned plant manager) who has driven major operational and business-model change in legacy manufacturing, including demand-driven Kanban replenishment and lead-time reduction. More recently built KPI systems and capacity-scaling improvements at Laboratory Testing Incorporated while integrating an acquisition, and now supports Laminators Incorporated at the board level while hands-on building a formal product development process from ideation through launch.”

“HR leader/consultant with experience supporting global, distributed teams and partnering closely with product, design, and analytics orgs in scaling environments. Has led complex org effectiveness work (role clarity, decision rights, performance frameworks) and drove a global HRIS implementation with structured change management to improve compliance, reporting, and manager experience.”

christina stratton

Screened

Executive CX & Brand Leader specializing in wellness and hospitality growth

Asheville, NC26y exp

“Multi-startup founder/part-owner with experience raising capital across stages (friends & family/angels through VC/PE) for a tech platform and a skincare/beauty brand, including building pitch decks and financial models. Also built a boutique wellness services firm by winning hotel/spa accounts from a larger competitor and ultimately sold the business to that competitor.”

“Customer success leader (Director of Customer Engagement at PlutoShift; also experience at Truework) focused on enterprise lifecycle ownership, stakeholder mapping, and VoC-driven product influence. Led cross-functional efforts to ship a reporting capability requested by customers, improving adoption and loyalty, and uses tools like Looker/Tableau plus deep customer discovery to diagnose issues like ineffective onboarding even when usage metrics look strong.”

“Public sector IT and cybersecurity sales leader with a track record of transforming reactive sales motions into proactive growth engines. He scaled Washington State business to over $1M/month, turned around a King County security account to $1M+ annually, and later drove 27% domestic and 30% international growth as a Global VP of Sales ahead of a successful acquisition.”

Danaé Castellanos

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Senior Technical Project Manager specializing in software delivery and Agile transformation

Querétaro, Mexico7y exp

“Senior project manager and special projects officer with 7+ years leading enterprise software implementations across healthcare platforms, ERPs, CRMs, mobile apps, and backend systems. She has owned projects from requirements and process design through QA, deployment, and change management, while managing up to 5-7 concurrent initiatives and coordinating executives, staff, and external vendors on integrated system rollouts.”

“Frontend engineer who led a React/TypeScript real-time live-streaming web platform end-to-end, including interactive chat, live polling, and monetization (subscriptions/tipping via Authorize.Net). Built a scalable component system (Tailwind + Storybook) and handled complex real-time state with optimistic UI patterns across WebSocket and server-validated events, collaborating closely with product/design (Figma) and QA in an agile release cadence.”

“Operator/consultant who built and ran an executive coaching and business consulting practice working directly with founders and operators on decision-making, operational structure, and performance. Has tested multiple business concepts (consulting/productized services and a consumer product) without raising external capital, and is now intentionally transitioning from advising to full end-to-end ownership of a venture with a strong bias toward rapid validation and execution.”

“Hands-on public sector sales leader with 20 years of experience building and scaling government-focused SaaS and tech-enabled sales organizations. Most notably, he was the first sales hire at Library Ideas and grew the business from $0 to $19M ARR across 5,000 customers in 20 countries, while also demonstrating strong team turnaround, forecasting rigor, and success in complex RFP-driven government deals.”

“Senior operations leader with hands-on experience removing major scale blockers in high-volume operations, including building a scalable end-to-end chain-of-custody workflow validated through time studies, throughput testing, and client-facing demonstrations. Partners directly with sales from site walks through RFPs to win enterprise clients against far larger incumbents, and drives market-level gross margin improvement through P&L-driven metric selection and controllable levers like overtime.”

Daniel Landsman

Screened

Director-level HR & Operations leader specializing in HRIS, benefits, and business operations

Westbury, NY20y exp

“People/operations-focused leader who drives organizational change through systems thinking and metrics—implemented a firmwide time-tracking tool to reveal underbilling and underscoped work, then led contract restructuring that increased profitability while reducing employee workload and improving morale. Strong in executive buy-in, people analytics, leadership coaching, and high-stakes employee relations/mediation.”

“Outbound sales candidate with a thoughtful, process-driven approach to prospecting, combining cold calling, email, and LinkedIn into coordinated campaigns. Stands out for using account research, stakeholder mapping, and messaging experiments to improve response rates and book qualified meetings with director- and VP-level buyers.”

“Engineering leader for a facial-recognition edge platform who drove a full-stack modernization to scale from ~100 edge devices to thousands of locations. Led a major distributed-systems re-architecture (NATS streaming), database migration (MongoDB to PostgreSQL + TimeScaleDB), and UI/API modernization (React), while scaling the team 5→15 and implementing CI/CD + automated QA to improve release velocity and reliability.”