Chad Hansell

Background

About Chad Hansell

An organizational people leader with product, strategy, program, and transformation expertise. I cultivate the strengths of people to deliver value through starting, building, and fixing situations. I inspire and orchestrate strategic outcomes by: • Challenging the status quo, while pioneering valuable change • Establishing collaborative vision and strategy • Developing healthy cultures through trust, respect, transparency, and empowerment • Championing focus, collaboration, and open communication • Making decisions based on strategic productivity • Solving complex problems with systems thinking • Breaking silos, anti-patterns, bias, and politics • Aligning teams to a strategic future • Disrupting stagnation, change resistance, and fear I develop multidimensional strategy and actions for building connected teams and delivering products/solutions that solve strategic problems. For people, I help with agility, growth, and change. For businesses, I envision and facilitate what is needed to build clocks, not just tell time. Together, we move things forward to improve the top and bottom line. • Leadership of multi-million dollar businesses, departments, portfolios, and initiatives; direct reports to 20+, teams to 200+ • 20 years of cross-functional leadership with an emphasis on software products and programs; 15+ years of executive leadership and business strategy; 20+ years as a people leader • Leadership from startups to large companies • Led an enterprise software company product development evolution and scaling - Acquired by Microsoft • Orchestrated 4 business transitions to a platform company • Created a multi-million dollar PSO department • Led 3 M&A product and business integrations • Envisioned and launched multiple products and platforms Created an innovation platform Transformed a service portfolio into a multi $B product platform Consolidated 31 products into a business insight platform Established a big data platform for business intelligence and operational insight Developed a portfolio of 4 enterprise software product lines Delivered a portfolio of web products saving millions annually and supported $5B • Agile & Lean • Business Architecture • Coaching • Collaboration • Cross-functional Leadership • Developing Leaders • Novel & Adaptive Thinking • Program Management • Product Management & Strategy • Shared Leadership & Self-Directed Teams • Team Formulation • Trans-disciplinary & Systems Thinking • Transformational Leadership