Where Strategy, Systems, and Human Behavior Align
Where Strategy, Systems, and Human Behavior Align
Enterprise Transformation Executive · Director, Clarkston Consulting · Founder, The Alignment Principle
THE WORK
I've spent 30 years inside the hardest parts of organizational change — the moments where strategy collides with operational reality, where leadership alignment breaks down under pressure, and where the gap between what executives believe is happening and what is actually happening quietly widens until it becomes a crisis.
My career has spanned enterprise transformation across Life Sciences, Consumer Products, Industrial, and Retail sectors — advising C-suite and Board stakeholders on operating model design, planning governance, supply chain strategy, and the organizational dynamics that determine whether transformation succeeds or quietly fails.
Director, Enterprise Transformation & Integrated Planning 2021 – 2026 Clarkston Consulting
Life sciences supply chain segment lead. Advises C-suite and Board stakeholders on future-state operating models, planning governance, and cross-functional alignment across Life Sciences, CPG, and Retail. Leads enterprise transformation programs connecting strategic intent to organizational execution reality — surfacing decision risks before they become program failures.
Vice President, Supply Chain 2020 – 2021 Bonnie Plants
Led supply chain transformation for a $450M manufacturing and distribution organization spanning 90 sites — including ERP modernization, procurement redesign, logistics, and operational strategy. Reduced COGS by $7.7M, logistics costs by $3M, and improved Procure-to-Pay cycle performance by more than 50 days.
Senior Director, Global Supply Chain Planning 2016 – 2020 HarbisonWalker International
Led Oracle Cloud and MES implementation alongside global IBP transformation across North America, Europe, Latin America, and China. Improved operational efficiency by 30%+, reduced inventory by $20M, lowered working capital by 18%, and supported 14% EBITDA improvement. Recognized with two Supply Chain Management Excellence Awards.
Senior Global Supply Chain Planning Leader 2012 – 2016 MSA, the Safety Company
Led global SIOP implementation and operating model transformation across five continents. Reduced inventory by 20% and supported acquisition integration contributing to $135M in annual synergy savings following a $350M acquisition.
Progressive Supply Chain Leadership Early Career ThermoFisher Scientific | BD Bioscience | Teleflex Medical | Sky Climber
Built foundational expertise across Life Sciences, medical device, and industrial manufacturing environments — ERP implementation, production planning, supply network coordination, and regulatory systems across manufacturing operations.
Two Supply Chain Management Excellence Awards — HarbisonWalker International — for leadership in enterprise transformation, Oracle Cloud enablement, and cross-functional operational collaboration
Founder, The Alignment Principle — thought leadership platform on the human and organizational dimensions of enterprise transformation
MBA & MS in Organizational Leadership, both graduated with honors - Pfeiffer University
Over decades of leading transformation, I began noticing a pattern that most leadership thinking doesn't address directly. The dynamics that fracture organizations — misalignment, avoidance, trust eroding under pressure, incentives pulling people in opposite directions — appear with remarkable consistency in individuals navigating their own transformation.
Misalignment. Resilience. Identity under pressure. The gap between who we say we are and how we actually behave when things get hard.
These are not just organizational problems. They are human ones. And understanding them at both levels — the enterprise and the individual — is what The Alignment Principle is built around.
Early in my career, I believed strong leadership meant arriving with answers. I walked into rooms with fully-formed solutions, convinced I had the analysis, the logic, the roadmap — and that my job was to guide others toward alignment.
What I didn't realize was that I had already decided the outcome before the conversation began. I was hearing people speak. I wasn't truly listening.
It took years — and some expensive lessons — to understand that leadership is not about being the smartest voice in the room. It is about creating the conditions for the smartest thinking in the room to emerge. Some of the most important moments in leadership happen in the silence after a question is asked. If we rush to fill that silence, we miss the insight that changes everything.
That shift — from arriving with answers to staying genuinely curious — is one of the things I write about most here. Because it applies as much to personal transformation as it does to organizational change.
The Alignment Principle publishes perspectives on transformation, leadership, supply chain strategy, and the human dynamics of change — delivered when there's something worth saying.
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