Candidates About

                   Barrie Day                             

 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

·        Organizational Change Management expert, author of the book “Change and How to Survive the New Economy” based on hands on experience working with and interviewing some of the most innovative and successful companies on the planet! These included Amazon, Apple, Fed Ex, Forever 21, Google etc.

·        Extensive experience working with big 5 consulting companies including Deloitte, IBM, Accenture, Origin, Whitman-Hart, CSC, and SAP. Ability to apply “thought leadership” to connect with the executive team at the business level and talk approach and roadmaps in their language of results, cost and risk.

·        Widely acknowledged as a highly experienced Change Management Leader who has helped CEO’s, CFO’s and other similar leaders to develop and brainstorm the essential and compelling Vision or “story” that connects and engages the people and executives that is often the first step in the process of change.

·        Strong leader who has led large teams on complex journeys of Change with large numbers of different functions and levels of experience. He has earned their respect because of his focus, knowledge and experience with diverse and challenging assignments as well as his personal management style (open, honest and direct) and ability to connect with others.

·        Managed strong local and political resistance to Change Programs through a combination of “straight talk”, passion and emphasis on business benefits successfully; on time, and under budget

·        Developed a proprietary program for corporate growth in a volatile and changing economy based on Change Management aimed at increasing cross company innovation, communication, and agility.

·        Senior Advisor on Business Strategy and Change Management working at CEO/Board Level and Shop Floor on major change, realignment, layoffs and improving business operations and performance.

·        Extensive international experience living and working in Asia Pacific, North America, and Europe

·        Fluent Dutch, German, and French

EXPERIENCE

Role: Program Manager, Organizational Transformation Sep 14 -

Client: Pharmaceutical Company, Cambridge, UK 

Accomplishments:

·        Successfully and quickly partnered with local management team and identified major issues with the proposed overall Change Management approach and project plan.  Worked with the local and corporate project team overcoming political resistance to re-plan and re-assign resources appropriately and was able to improve the delivery date by almost 6 months.

·        Reduced costs and simplified the complexity and learning curve for Change Management and Training by leveraging the U.S. parent business system template, resources and existing available documentation and video

• Led major transformational change initiative (setting up new common organization, processes, operations, procedures, supply chain, distribution, and e-commerce process throughout the U.K.

Role: Consultant-Change Management Leader,         Oct 2012- Sep 2013                           

Client : Konica Minolta, Office Equipment, New Jersey/Toronto, Canada

Accomplishments:

·        Overcame skepticism and initial resistance from Japanese CEO, by completing a culture assessment and identifying major business “roadblocks” and culture issues, this process convinced him and the executive business leadership team on “buy-in” to the value contribution of Change Management.

·        Completed an Organizational Assessment of both US/Canadian business operations identifying duplication of functions and potential targets for re-engineering.

·        Delivered a Change Management Roadmap program for both the US and Canada business operations to support systems migration and organizational change.

·        Further identified potential reduction in force of 167 personnel and savings of $4.4M, plus additional substantial savings in inventory management.

Role: Program Manager                                 Sep 2010 – Sep 2012

Client : Meggitt Inc, Aerospace/Defense Company,

Accomplishments

·        Implemented a Government Compliance program throughout the business operation globally based on failed Defense Department audits and checks which could have closed the business operation down or resulted in a $500M fine.

·        Met with business units globally and succeeded in building strong relationships and engagement with senior executives as stakeholders, AND as involved and committed Sponsors through respect and understanding of local issues and their impact

·        Achieved agreement on implementing overall governance program including steering groups, work streams at corporate and locally for the business operations through involvement and listening to any and all issues raised.

·        Achieved global organizational alignment and “understanding” between Global Business Goals and SBU and Regional Project Deliverables in spite of initial political and geographic resistance based on past performance.

·        With dialogue with those impacted overseas we were able to developed an agreed global deployment strategy.

·        Delivered the Trade Compliance system in multiple locations worldwide on time and with minimum disruption.

Role: Change Management Consultant    Jan 10-Sep 10                                    

Client: Kimberly-Clark, Consumer Products - Atlanta, GA                  

Accomplishments:

·        Identified fundamental organizational change in Customer Service Management process for Customers. With additional data for analytics able to move from reactive to active.

·        Slashed costs by over $1M/yr (reducing headcount from 70 persons to 30 in Customer Service) and identifying major issues and gaps with installed system implementation.

·        Increased productivity by 30% by changing process, organization, “reward system” and system configuration.

·        Reduced customer error rate by 20% with thorough data scrubbing, training, and clean-up of Master Data.

·        Increased sales 2% and reduced customer churn by initiated major organizational change from a passive administrative order taking transaction function to an active Customer Centric focus and Customer segmentation.

Role : Interim Director/Change Management    Sep 08-Feb 09                                 

Client: Levi-Strauss; Footwear/Apparel., San Francisco, CA

Accomplishments : Re-established credibility of a Support Center and Help Desk through custom training and individual coaching and mentoring

Other Experience