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About: Liz McGuire<\/h3>

Enterprise Transformation Executive  \u00b7  Director, Clarkston Consulting  \u00b7  Founder, The Alignment Principle<\/span>

THE WORK

I've spent 30 years inside the hardest parts of organizational change \u2014 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.<\/p>

My career has spanned enterprise transformation across Life Sciences, Consumer Products, Industrial, and Retail sectors<\/span> \u2014 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.<\/p>
\"Most transformations don't fail because of bad strategy or the wrong technology. They fail because leadership is privately misaligned while publicly pretending otherwise.\"<\/span>

I've sat in executive status meetings where every report said green \u2014 and sat separately with the teams doing the actual work, who were quietly saying there was no way the timelines were achievable. I've watched highly capable organizations build two sides of the same bridge only to discover at the midpoint that the designs don't connect. The problem never began at the middle of the bridge. It began at the start of the transformation.<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Director, Enterprise Transformation & Integrated Planning \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 2021 \u2013 2026 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>Clarkston Consulting<\/p><\/div><\/div>

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 \u2014 surfacing decision risks before they become program failures.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Led supply chain transformation for a $450M manufacturing and distribution organization spanning 90 sites \u2014 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.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Senior Director, Global Supply Chain Planning \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02016 \u2013 2020\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>HarbisonWalker International<\/p><\/div>

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.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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Senior Global Supply Chain Planning Leader \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a02012 \u2013 2016 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 <\/span><\/strong>MSA, the Safety Company<\/p><\/div>

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.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Built foundational expertise across Life Sciences, medical device, and industrial manufacturing environments \u2014 ERP implementation, production planning, supply network coordination, and regulatory systems across manufacturing operations.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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Over decades of leading transformation, I began noticing a pattern that most leadership thinking doesn't address directly. The dynamics that fracture organizations \u2014 misalignment, avoidance, trust eroding under pressure, incentives pulling people in opposite directions \u2014 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 \u2014 the enterprise and the individual \u2014 is what The Alignment Principle is built around.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t

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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 \u2014 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 \u2014 and some expensive lessons \u2014 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.

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