For twenty years Jamie has consulted with Fortune 100 - 500 companies to design and implement effective strategies in the areas of organizational change, team development, leadership development, productivity, and business effectiveness.
Jamie was lead consultant for Walt Disney Attractions' company-wide culture change effort from 1993 - 1998. Her role included:
- Designing a long-term global rollout plan for change
- Educating and mobilizing business heads to implement these change strategies
- Developing and implementing effective tools to address business challenges
- Managing cross-division strategic business initiatives
Other divisions of The Walt Disney Company she has consulted to and advised are Walt Disney World, Euro Disney, Disneyland, Walt Disney Imagineering, The Disney Stores, and Disney Cruise Line.
For the last five years, Jamie has specialized in strategic results-oriented business processes. These processes bring key executives together from various geographies, functions, disciplines, and cultures to solve complex business issues including reduction of cycle time, increased revenue, cost reduction, strategic redirection and implementation. She has worked with IBM on a worldwide basis and has conducted sessions in the U.S., Asia, South America, and Europe.
Her most recent work has focused on partnering with founders, CEOs, and senior management teams of small start-up companies challenged by evolving strategies that must keep pace with an ever-changing environment and expediential growth. This includes:
- Creating and/or strengthening organizational infrastructure
- Facilitating the education, training, and teamwork of key leaders
- Providing support in negotiating changes and challenges associated with strategic direction and mergers and acquisitions
Currently, she is designing and leading a company-wide employee retention effort with a Fortune 500 entertainment company.
Past clients include: Aetna, Universal Studios Orlando, Animal Planet, Morgan Bank, McKinsey, British Petroleum, Merck, Arthur Andersen, Miles Pharmaceuticals, AT&T, Pacific Gas & Electric, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania Medical Centers, and General Electric.
RECENT REPRESENTATIVE CLIENT ENGAGEMENTS
1999 - Present
- Consulting with the CEO and senior leadership team of a 200-employee software company to implement an aggressive growth strategy. This includes providing consultation to assist management in transitioning the global company focus from that of a software products and services company to an Internet services company.
- Consulting with the President and COO of a major entertainment company to design and implement a company-wide employee retention initiative.
- Providing mentoring to fast track high potential, newly recruited young executives to ensure effective assimilation into the political and relationship dynamics of a Fortune 500 company.
1998 - 1999
- Consulted with Disney Cruise Line senior executives on organizational challenges associated with new business start-ups and the growth and maintenance of an effective organization.
- Designed and implemented an executive leadership program for Zurich Insurance Company using the martial art of Aikido to teach personal mastery and influence skills in environments of intense power and control dynamics.
1997 - 1998
- Designed and implemented the Walt Disney World/ Walt Disney Imagineering Strategic Partnering Initiative to increase effective resolution of business issues, reduce development cost and increase operational quality of all key projects.
1996 - 1997
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Teamed with Walt Disney World's Senior Vice President of Operations to create Great Leaders Strategies, a performance coaching tool which has been successfully adopted and used extensively at Walt Disney World to raise the level of executive performance and guest services.
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Partnered with CEO of Autonomous Technologies, a start-up company specializing in laser technology, to identify and address organizational and team issues in order to develop a plan to decrease the development-to-market cycle time.
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