Julie Hughes

• Strategically drive innovation in development and execution of products of the future; successfully align with largest innovation partners and clients, resulting in multi-million dollar client retention

• Dedicated strategy consultant to the President/Chief ($6B revenue) for board and committee topic creation; partner in presentation and facilitation of board and committee meetings
• Performed annual enterprise and company market assessments
• Facilitation of annual and five-year planning – align strategic initiatives with performance drivers; goal creation
• Specializing in Disruptive Strategies
• Enterprise Strategy Office partner to Global Innovation Center, comp intel teams, product development, sales enablement

• Lead successful acquisition integration of a company with $1B revenue and 9000 employees
• Lead strategic initiatives with executive leadership from VSP Vision’s Presidents, Vice Presidents, and General Managers; manage executive governance teams
• Drive C-level decision making using enterprise insights and analysis
• Facilitate strategic discussions, ideation, conflict to resolution, driving to a business concept for execution
• Manage large portfolio work efforts from initiation to execution, coordinating multiple project scopes and dependencies, with budgets of $1-10M

Client - State of California; CA-MMIS; Organizational Change Management and Transformation Consultant

• Design transformation focusing on re-establishing organization's culture and values while improving productivity, leadership development, and employee satisfaction.
• Create programs to improve the execution of the strategic and operational plans, accountability, customer satisfaction and performance management.
• Mentor and grow the business analyst skill set to support a complex, changing environment

Client - State of California; EDD; Business Process Improvement Coach

• Implement and coach an internal BPI team responsible to deliver data driven process improvement recommendations
• BPI methodology training; BPI tactical training (data analysis, project planning)
• Developed presentation skills training for the client team

Client - State of California; Caltrans; Trainer

• Develop and deliver training to 35 participants
• Lean Manufacturing/5S/Business Process Improvement training

Client - Sacramento County; Department of Water Resources - Business and Relationship Improvement Consultant

• Facilitate the department through business process reengineering sessions utilizing Innovation Games to identify, prioritize and implement change

• Develop and ensure large programs and associated resources aligned on both work and purpose
• Lead VSP Vision’s top transformative initiatives from concept through the project development lifecycle
• Proof of Concepts/Minimal Viable Products – Created a team to support POCs and MVPs to allow for innovation among traditional business; created the end-to-end process; provided training support

• Ensure successful implementation, training and adoption of the WebEx online meeting products
• Consistently the highest performing employee in a sales support role

• Led execution and implementation teams through high profile system conversion efforts across organizations and disparate team locations
• Successfully ensured organizational/operational readiness; consistent change agent for organizational impacts
• Was a sought-out leader in change management, as the telecom industry changed at a rapid pace to serve the largest transformational technology projects