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Grant Sommerfeld
A strategic-thinking and operational-planning expert, Grant has a well-earned reputation for producing results as a high-energy and optimistic leader, thinker, motivator, and creative problem-solver. He has been turned to on three separate occasions in two different industries to lead a turn-around of a troubled business unit. A few career highlights include:
- Being entrusted with the leadership of a 750-employee organization with five distinct departments and a $40.6M operating budget in a 12,000-employee health care organization
- Led a $2.5M on time and on-budget project that created a new 145-seat call center handling over 1 million customer interactions a year
- Delivered an organizationally unprecedented 12% reduction in spending in a financial turn-around that reduced a predicted $2.1M budget deficit to a near break-even in less than six months
- Created a ‘super-department’ and built a single, integrated 16 person management team to consolidate five formerly independent functions reducing overhead costs by $500K annually
- Implemented significant accounting, shipping, and inventory control procedures to help my organization save over $1.5M annually.
Grant gets excited about applying organizational and process design to build and lead high performing organizations and has a track record of making a positive difference in this area both as an organizational leader and as a consultant.
I am presently leading a functionally diverse department consisting of 750 employees and a $40.2M annual operating budget. Prior experience includes business development, customer service and financial management. For six years, I led my own management consulting firm with a specialization in organizational and process design and change management.
He hold the degrees of a Bachelor of Commerce and an MBA and is a Certified Management Consultant.
Grant’s career has been built around leading departments and business units to greater performance during period of intense change by blending leadership and operations management abilities with the skills and aptitudes of a management consultant and change agent.
• Operational leadership
• Organizational effectiveness
• Strategic and operational planning
• Creative problem solving
• Project and change management
• Crisis Management and damage control
Grant Sommerfeld loves a challenge and approach everything he does with a lot of energy and personal commitment.
