Catherine Wakelin

Background

About Catherine Wakelin

Results-driven business transformation leader with 20+ years orchestrating high-performance teams to meet aggressive goals and deliver high impact transformative change. Skilled in developing strong internal and external relationships to facilitate the collaborative achievement of high-priority goals. Thrives in a fast-paced setting, leveraging leadership experience, strategic thinking, practical planning, and high-caliber execution to enable team success. Committed to life-long learning and going the extra mile to facilitate continuous improvement. KEY SKILLS o Project and Program Delivery o Strategic Planning o Management Consulting o Complex Problem-Solving o Business Transformation o Team Leadership o Relationship Management o Change Management o Executive/Pitch Presentations o Omnichannel Experience Roadmaps o Productization o Strategic Thinking & Analysis o Advanced Facilitation o Workshop Design & Execution o Business Process Optimization CAREER HIGHLIGHTS o Leadership Excellence: Successfully led large-scale, multifaceted initiatives across diverse business sectors in high-stakes environments, ensuring clarity, transparency, fiscal responsibility and alignment throughout. o Strategic Vision: Using critical thinking, successfully crafted and executed in-depth strategic analyses, developing and implementing comprehensive strategic plans and roadmaps that optimized business outcomes. o Business & Digital Transformation: Guided organizations through business reinvention and reorganizations, leading strategy development, decision-making, technology roadmap building, operating model development, change management and rebranding efforts. o Problem-solving: Applied a management consulting mindset to work with stakeholders to resolve significant business critical issues associated with mergers, reorganizations, rebranding, operational changes, poor-performing programs and digital transformation.