Oversees Large Scale Program Management & PMO Design Practice

Scott Swanson has over 25 years of business management, business operations, large scale program/project management and Fortune 500 industry experience in the financial services, healthcare, manufacturing and information technology areas.  Scott’s ability design/refine large scale business models have effectively reduced several of our client’s division level operational budgets by 30-40%, while improving customer management and aligning appropriate technology investments.  

Scott’s consulting focus includes: Large scale program design and recommendations, Translating the identified business change into a VP and C-Level consumable business case, investment portfolio and stakeholder communications.

Tactical areas of experience include: Large Scale IT Operations, Data Centers and WAN Outsource Analysis, Managed Services Alignment/Integration, Contract Negotiation and On/Off-Shore Analysis.

Clients turn to Scott to help reduce the risk and complexity of their large E-Commerce application development efforts where he shepherdsAgile Life-Cycle Development & Portfolio Management Methodologies. Scott’s has a seasoned understanding of Financial Services, Banking, Manufacturing and HealthCare organizations and taps his engineering background for problem solving while leveraging his c-level experience for collaboration, and Communications.

Oversees Business Design & Innovation Practice

Chris has over 20 years of experience in the areas of business design, leading cross-functional teams and driving innovation initiatives for clients such as Honeywell, Wells Fargo, Exxon Mobil and Showtime Networks.  Grounded in the conviction that great products need to delight the consumer as well as fit into a business model that makes sense, he helps companies navigate the art & science of bringing new ideas (in the form of products, services and experiences), to reality while making sure the underlying business model is delivering results. His diverse background ranges from strategic planning and product alignment in large-scale retail and the aerospace industry, to operational innovations within Fortune 500 organizations as well as producing/directing documentaries for U.S. television.

His current focus with Sharp Sky Partners is to help large organizations apply the nimbleness of startups for developing new offerings while making sure these new successes dovetail back into the larger organization when ready to scale.

Oversees Change Management Practice

Change, as is often quoted, is the one constant that every organization and initiative can count on. 

Kevin’s successes as a consultant comes through moving customers through the process of change by helping them to define, manage, and implement successful change at any organizational level. He offers expertise in evaluating the operating environment of an organization and coaching the teams through changing their existing practices to improve company performance. Most often, this improvement is defined as providing a more consistent and more efficient set of services to an organization’s internal and external customers.

Whether the change is in the organizational structure, governance, technology, or processes his track record of successful engagement sees the changes that are necessary, defines their impact on the organization, maps a path for achieving this change, and manages the initiative through its life-cycles. His engagements range from initiatives such asincreasing processing efficiency, reducing operational risks, to broadening the customer relationship.  In all cases, Kevin works to understand the customer interactions to guarantee project and team success.

Specialties include: finance and audit, security and compliance management, business process improvement, risk and change management, regulatory compliance, business merger, integration and divestiture.

Vertical expertise includes: Financial services, Healthcare, and Insurance.