Connell Smith

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About Connell Smith

I am passionate about helping organizations navigate barriers to growth and profitability. As an interim or fractional business leader my strength lies in tight collaboration with your team to develop insights, shape strategy and operationalize plans to quickly achieve measurable results, and importantly, enable your staff to continue to drive success. As a resourceful leader with strong operating skills, I’ve helped companies scale their businesses, achieve double digit growth from new revenue streams, build new product portfolios into $100M businesses, and have returned struggling organizations to profitability. As a hands-on, collaborative leader I focus on driving results with urgency. Respected for my ability to quickly assess and develop strategic insights from complex business, market and competitive situations, and operationalize strategies that drive growth and transformation, and are designed for future scalability of the business, its processes and teams. As a creative and analytical problem solver I bring a disciplined approach to key business issues. With a good dose of humor and a demand for absolute integrity, I build, coach and develop engaged teams. My executive operating experience spans a range of business models: SaaS-based high growth software start-ups, professional consulting businesses, large organizations with broad product portfolios and global scope; a range of B2B markets: manufacturing, software, technology and professional services; and a variety of go-to-market and operations models. Expertise: · Business Turnarounds · Business Model Expansion · Strategy and New Market Development · Marketing, Go-to-Market and Channel Model Development · P&L Management · Operations · New Product Development and Launch Contact: Pivotal Strategies | Strategy. Execution. Results. connell@pivotalstrategies.consulting