Conor H.

Management Consultant with 15+ years leading Strategy, Finance, Transformation & Innovation functions for 3 Fortune 100 companies. Experience: - Senior Leadership Roles: Served on senior leadership teams in global, enterprise-level, and operational roles across the U.S. & Asia. - Value Creation: Proven track record of transforming business models, delivering industry-first differentiators, and building growth capabilities. - Methods: Expertise in both organic (new team, product or service; leveraged/self-funded growth or efficiency) and inorganic (M&A, divestitures, JVs, partnerships) methods of delivering value. - Approach: My unique approach combines traditional corporate strategy, business intelligence and problem-solving frameworks (that's usually phase 1 of a project) with agile methodologies to build consensus and be nimble when execute the strategy, transformation or acquisition / transaction (usually phase 2). Specialties: (1) Strategy, Finance & Corporate Development: - Quantitative analysis, financial modeling, trend and data analysis - Corporate development, M&A & IPO - Target Operating Model - Communicating complex topics, simply - Leading strategy and business reviews - Developing high quality executive presentations and recommendations - Adept at the art vs science of facilitating strategy sessions and fostering transformational dialogue at all levels of the organization - Traditional strategy offsites and Blue Sky workshops - Market entry and expansion into new, adjacent or existing markets - Regulatory compliance with local and international regulations. - Competitive analysis of non-public insights, intel from expert networks and in-depth analysis of public info and financials (2) Transformation, Innovation & Business Development: - Delivering innovation & transformation programs - Digital transformation to modernize business processes and drive efficiencies - Bringing strategic concepts to market and turning strategies into go-to-market minimal viable products - Test, launch & iterate minimal viable products & initiatives - Artificial Intelligence applications for efficiency and customer experience transformations - Facilitating Design Think sessions - Customer experience enhancements through innovative solutions - Primary and secondary research - Outsourcing & offshoring programs - Process reimagining and reengineering - Adapting agile ways of working for commercial organizations - Go-to-market strategies - Coaching Agile methodologies and New Ways of Working - Change management during transformations. (3) Data Analysis & Business Intelligence: - Predictive Analytics: forecast future trends and behaviors via machine learning, statistics - Big Data Management & Mining: Handling large datasets to extract actionable insights and support decision-making - Data Integration: Combining data from multiple sources to provide a comprehensive view of business operations. - Business Intelligence: Developing and implementing BI tools and dashboards for real-time data visualization and reporting - Business Intelligence Strategy & Roadmap: Developing comprehensive BI strategies and roadmaps aligned with business objectives. - Customer Analytics: Analyzing customer data to enhance targeting, retention, and engagement - Risk Analytics: Using data to assess and mitigate financial, operational, and strategic risks - Machine Learning Models for automation and improved accuracy in predictions - Natural Language Processing techniques to analyze and interpret human language data. - Advanced Statistical Analysis: Using complex statistical methods to validate findings and support business strategies. - Dashboard Development: Creating interactive and user-friendly dashboards to visualize key metrics and performance indicators. - KPI Development: Defining and tracking Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to measure business performance. Leadership and how I work: - Team Building: Extensive experience in building, hiring, and scaling up onshore and offshore teams. - Influential Leadership: Adaptive, autonomous leader who prioritizes impact and influences others without authority. - Collaboration: Recognized for collaboration and building trusted relationships with clients and senior leadership teams. Have been asked by executives to permanently join their leadership teams following strategy and transformation engagements. - Coaching: Fosters growth and professional development of others by pushing comfort zones and providing ownership, public accountability and visibility where appropriate, and providing a psychologically safe environment to take risks. My team and resources: - A global network of leaders and subject matter experts that I have already worked with and can lean on to complete your deliverables. Global reach and work ability: - Possess work authorization in the U.S., EU (including Ireland/Dublin), Hong Kong, and Singapore. Available to work anywhere in the world within one