People & Organization Archives - Columbus Consulting

Iaroslav (Iaro) Boutorine

Iaro is a Consultant with Columbus Consulting. He specializes in defining and implementing data strategy, analytics and insights. He has a proven track record for leading teams and developing and implementing processes that address the unique ...

Amanda Hilgers

Amanda brings extensive retail and consulting experience to each client, enabling teams to support strategic transformations and system implementations. She is an expert in creating and delivering against change management strategies. Amanda recognizes the importance ...

Sandra Worley

Sandra is a seasoned project and change management professional with experience leading strategic initiatives in a myriad of industries and sectors. She has extensive expertise in project, program, and portfolio management; PMO development; change leadership; ...

Anne Maas

Anne is an experienced retail veteran and consultant with a proven track record in driving operational excellence across data management, merchandising, wholesale, and marketing operations. Expert in leading cross-functional teams to streamline workflows, implement scalable ...

Allison Crone

Allison is a consultant with Columbus Consulting. Her expertise lies in program management, strategic alignment, employee engagement, vendor relations, and multi-million-dollar budget management. Allison has a proven track record of creating and cultivating meaningful and ...

Kimberley O’Keeffe

Kimberley is an accomplished Category Management Consultant supporting strategic and operational assortment, space and financial planning implementations. She specializes in process improvement, design and delivery of multi-platform training and change management programs. Kimberley’s strength to ...

Helene Trontz

Helene is an accomplished digital and commerce strategy consultant with expertise in omni-channel transformation, martech, and customer experience innovation. She helps brands accelerate growth by integrating CDPs, CRM, and GenAI into personalized customer journeys. Her ...

Fiona Ghosh

Fiona is a dynamic and versatile retail professional with 30 years experience working for leading global retailers. Fiona served as a Merchandise Controller and then went on to lead the design, testing and delivery of a suite ...

Megan Fox

Megan is a Consultant at Columbus Consulting. She is a proactive and collaborative leader with deep experience supporting and leading system implementations across a range of functions—including project management, business process design, change management, training, ...

Mary Beth DePizzol

Mary Beth is an Associate Partner at Columbus Consulting with extensive experience in Replenishment, Allocation, Demand Planning & Merchandise Planning, System Implementations, and Change Management. She has a proven track record of success in strategic demand ...

Mackenzie Branch

Mackenzie is a results-oriented professional with extensive experience across the retail industry. She has led high-impact projects, including a OMS transition and initiatives to streamline and automate manual processes to improve business efficiency. With expertise ...

Linda Canada

Linda is a retail leadership veteran with deep experience leading multi-million dollar public companies through expansion, innovation and evolution. Her expertise includes leading financial planning, distribution, logistics, organizational transformation, process improvement, change management and technical / ...

Kristin Paulsen

Kristin is an experienced retail executive with expertise in E2E business process and leading organizational transformations ensuring the people, process and technology are aligned for a successful adoption and to deliver sustainable results. Her leadership, ...

Kevin Dozier

Kevin brings rich leadership experience in building and growing operational infrastructures across multiple retail categories for corporations in many phases of their operation from start-up to maturity. A strong leader known for influencing stakeholders and ...

Mike Tripp

Mike is an accomplished Supply Chain executive with extensive experience working with retail, wholesale, and e-commerce companies. He is focused on delivering operational improvements through supply chain, distribution operations, and customer service teams. He is ...

Deborah Ter Doest

Deborah is a consultant at Columbus Consulting and a seasoned retail executive with a proven track record in supporting large scale business transformations. She specializes in change management and training, ensuring seamless adoption by bridging the ...

Kam Johal

Kam is a global retail professional with extensive experience working for some of the leading global retailers. She has extensive experience in head office and field-based roles, including International Buying, Regional Operations, and International Franchise ...

Jenni Morey

Jenni is an expert Change Management leader of Retail Systems implementations and Business Process transformations. She is a proven effective manager of project teams. Jenni’s strong analytical, problem solving and quantitative skills, combined with her ...

Tim Mark

Tim is an Associate Partner with Columbus Consulting with a strong consumer packaged goods and retail background. As a solutions architect, he transforms complex business challenges into streamlined, efficient processes. His expertise spans multiple business ...

Christine Cho

Christine is a Principal with Columbus Consulting, bringing knowledge and expertise in Merchandising, Retail Buying, and Assortment Planning. With a keen eye for process optimization and a hands-on approach to solution implementation, she excels at aligning ...

Vicki Alvarado

Vicki is a Principal with Columbus Consulting with extensive experience in Merchandise and Assortment Planning. She specializes in system selection, documentation, business design, implementation and training. Vicki has led large global retail/wholesale planning projects helping ...