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Legacy Finance Team Alignment
Nike

Role: Group Manager to Nike Global Finance.

Challenge: Things change frequently, often without control, but usually with warning. My challenge was to prepare the Nike Legacy Finance team to work strategically and resourcefully.

Action: Aligned management and personal objectives and whiteboarded a team strategy. Met individually to validate roles and detail the plan with processes and goals. Provided motivation, direction, training, resources, and a weekly status round table. Rewarded teamwork, productivity improvement, and doing the right job.

Results: Nike soon unrolled a Global Supply Chain project and individuals exercised their planning and transition skills as they eliminated their jobs and migrated to other strategic projects. Developed a highly effective and productive team and reduced ongoing maintenance from 70% to 30%.

CIO Retention Policy
Nike

Role: Represented Nike Global Finance to write retention policy for the CIO. Challenge: Work with peers to quickly identify, develop, and implement a comprehensive solution.

Action: Agreed on leadership, scope, and timeline. Met weekly to develop and review work, including budgets and guidelines.

Results: The retention committee presented its work at the next division meeting. I presented recognition policy, the “Spot Award”.

Multi-Country Container Consolidation
Nike

Role: Senior Project Manager to the Nike Program Office ‘Multi-Country Container Consolidation’ implementation.

Challenge: Take a valuable idea to market with no resources.

Action: Coordinated a virtual team of system experts, open contractors, and business experts to design and implement a container management solution.

Results: Total out of pocket $20K. Container savings $20K / week.

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