Partners

Our Partners

Chiefofstaff.com partners with exceptional firms to deliver strategy in complex organizations, creating an open and engaging culture.

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MANAGEMENT CONSULTING FIRMS

Chiefofstaff.com is excited to be working with Accenture, one of the world’s largest and most respected global consulting firms with special expertise in supporting the interface between innovative, cutting edge technology like Chiefofstaff.com and corporate and enterprise organizations.

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Chiefofstaff.com’s Teaming Agreement with Deloitte Consulting LLP brings the breadth of Deloitte’s experience and industry knowledge to power the brilliant execution of Chiefofstaff.com in your complex organization. As part of the largest management consultancy in the world, Deloitte consultants offer global experience and local knowledge to help clients succeed in any public or private business environment.

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“Chiefofstaff.com helps us fulfill our core mission to empower our clients to align and execute on plans.”
– Mike Buczkowski, TechCXO

Chiefofstaff.com is excited to join forces with TechCXO. TechCXO was founded on the premise that high potential companies can greatly benefit from proven, interim executives who they otherwise may not be able to access due to cost, availability or because they do not necessarily need them full time. TechCXO’s purpose is to provide the best executive talent available – on demand.

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Now in its 26th year, The SPECTRUM Group has built a reputation as a leading provider of experience and access in federal and commercial spaces, helping clients assess, plan and implement successful strategies and solutions. The SPECTRUM Group’s more than 100 expert consultants work across the U.S. and around the globe to deliver viable answers to their client’s most challenging business and policy questions. In complement to their strategic consulting services, The SPECTRUM Group delivers several government and professional services designed to meet specific client needs and help clients succeed in business in federal, defense, and commercial arenas. Services target client challenges unique to these spaces.

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“OPG has been providing strategic planning services to clients in a variety of industries, from museums to energy construction companies. While our planning process is thorough and robust, we have been looking for a way to help our clients better implement their plans. Chiefofstaff.com has provided us with that tool.”
– ­­­Laura Freebairn­ Smith, OPG

Organizational Performance Group (OPG) and Chiefofstaff.com’s partnership delivers OPG’s first class expertise in strategic planning combined with Chiefofstaff.com’s powerful strategy execution software to help CEOs and their teams lead with excellence. OPG brings decades of experience in helping people work better together. With previous clients like Foster Wheeler UK and the Cleveland Museum of Art, the firm’s knowledge in strategic planning and leadership training offers support, expertise and analytical rigor that ensure organizations are well designed, and employees are productive contributors. Founding Partners Laura Freebairn Smith and Anthony Panos bring a wealth of consulting and facilitation experience to their clients.

Find out more about OPG

Read the Press Release: OPG and Chiefofstaff.com Deliver First Class Strategy and Unparalleled Execution

“Imagine if success moved from less than 25% to greater than 95%– it’s that simple.”
Mark Sobol, Founder Longwave

Longwave knows strategy and their partnership with Chiefofstaff.com significantly increases the odds of their client’s success. Over thirty years working with senior leaders worldwide brings proven, strategic knowledge and extensive experience in Vision, Leadership, Culture, Operations and Predictive Risk. Deep inquiry, working alongside CEOs and their teams, and mobilizing at scale are hallmarks of success with clients such as VF Corporation, Sprint, Sanofi, Airbnb and Intel.

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Read the Press Release: Chiefofstaff.com, Longwave and GrowthSquared Announce Partnership

“Change is inevitable. Progress is choice.”
– Chris Chafe, Founder of Growthsquared

Together, Chiefofstaff.com and GrowthSquared ensure the successful implementation of strategy. GrowthSquared helps leaders better understand their goals, their market, and how to develop and execute a strategic plan to campaign, organize, and deliver outcomes. GrowthSquared delivers value in four practice areas: relationship building, strategic advisory services, financial solutions, and market adoption.

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“We are thrilled to partner with Chiefofstaff.com, providing senior leaders a ‘clear line of sight’ within their companies, connecting top-down, bottom-up and middle-out to see the progress of strategic initiatives and status of work being done.”
Ron Crabtree, Founder and CEO of MetaOps.

Since 2002 MetaOps’ Founder CEO Ron Crabtree has been providing top executive and operational talent to large manufacturing companies globally. With a focus on aligning strategy with implementation, putting troubled projects back on track, and bringing best practices expertise and supply chain excellence, MetaOps’ international team of MetaExperts help leaders solve complex business problems. Now, thanks to a partnership with Chiefofstaff.com, MetaOps’ professional services are complemented by a powerful new tool that significantly enhances strategy execution.

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Read the Press Release: Chiefofstaff.com and MetaOpS Make Partnership Official


As an experienced and dedicated cybersecurity services firm, i-VisioNET takes great pride in being an industry leading provider of risk management, governance, operations, and compliance services to the government and commercial sectors. i-VisioNET is unmatched in the ability to meet the depth and breadth of federal agency requirements needed to effectively run cybersecurity programs, including a broad range of technical capabilities; experienced, certified and cleared cybersecurity professionals; and a strong record of over 17 years of successful past performances that meet and exceed today’s changing cyber security requirements.

With multiple government contract vehicles to include GSA schedule-70 #: GS35-F-362DA, i-VisioNET is able to provide services and expertise to agencies in the federal civilian, defense, intelligence, and homeland security sectors. i-VisioNET is a privately owned Certified Small Minority firm.

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Read the Press Release: Chiefofstaff.com now availalble on the GSA through i-VisioNet

Riveron is a business advisory firm infused with entrepreneurship. Their unique combination of consulting, public accounting and industry experience allows them to offer clients an unprecedented level of understanding and results. Riveron is changing the expectations of what it is like to partner with an advisory firm, and is a valued partner of Chiefofstaff.com.

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Lirsoft is an innovative and agile lean based digital software development firm with 154 years of combined design experience. Lirsoft works closely with their exclusive partner, The Institute of Digital Transformation, to deliver Digital Enterprise Readiness Assessments to customers.

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Synecticsworld is a leading authority on the human dynamics of creativity, innovation, and collaboration. They partner with organizations to create powerful, lasting change by helping them invent breakthrough solutions, products and services; develop growth strategies, and build innovative cultures and capabilities.

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SOFTWARE FIRMS

Salesforce is the global leader in Customer Relationship Management (CRM), bringing companies closer to their customers in the digital age. A Chiefofstaff.com app will soon be available on the Salesforce AppExchange, the leading enterprise cloud marketplace featuring solutions to help extend Salesforce into any department or industry. Chiefofstaff.com’s strategy execution solution combined with the number one CRM will create a powerful integrated platform to drive business transformation.

 “The Oracle for Startups program allows us to support and enable cutting-edge technologies that are providing unique solutions to dynamic global business problems, like Chiefofstaff.com
-Jason Williamson, Vice President, Oracle for Startups

Chiefofstaff.com is a member of the Oracle for Startups program, Oracle’s global initiative to support entrepreneurs and innovators across the globe. As part of Oracle for Startups, Chiefofstaff.com has access to Oracle’s vast global resources including Oracle Cloud technology, mentoring, marketing/sales enablement, enterprise customers, and product ecosystems.

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Read the Press Release: Chiefofstaff.com Selected for the Oracle Scaleup Ecosystem Program

Qison Software is a leading IT company offering robust product development solutions and services for a diverse range of requirements. Equipped with rich industry experience and know-how, Qison provides efficient solutions and services that add value and enhance profitability. Qison specializes across a wide array of solutions and services pertaining to diverse technologies and platforms. Their expertise extends to the development and maintenance of scalable and intuitive applications across social media marketing, mobile platforms, web technologies and cloud computing. Qison’s core competency lies in developing and implementing intuitive online communities for brands to enhance consumer engagement and encourage social commerce.

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INVESTMENT SERVICES

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“…skillful active management arguably represents the largest competitive edge PE firms possess. The Chiefofstaff.com platform provides an integrated solution facilitating the key processes needed to achieve outperformance.”
Carlos Aquino, Founder of CMA

CMA Pacific Partners (HK) Ltd. deploys seasoned PE operators—each with over 30 years of senior leadership roles in industry and PE—as interim management solutions or advisors to your fund / portfolio Cos. Together they build operating muscle with enduring impact on financial results. They are problem solvers that thrive in situations of ambiguity, and bring deep functional/industry ‘spikes” in key areas. They not only think like PE investors, they look for opportunities to invest alongside clients.

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Since 2000, Lightyear Capital has provided private equity capital to a broad spectrum of companies across the financial services industry. With approximately $3.5 billion of capital raised, they leverage sector-focused expertise and market insights to create value in their portfolio for investors.

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INDIVIDUAL CONSULTANT PARTNERS

Pat Brogan

Patricia A. Brogan is a veteran communications, legislative affairs, and public policy consultant to non-profit organizations, educational institutions, and local and state government with three decades of experience in campaigns and elections. A former staffer with the Pennsylvania General Assembly, Pat served as Chief of Staff for Lancaster Mayor Rick Gray from 2006 through 2017. Pat serves as an individual consultant partner with Chiefofstaff.com with a special focus on governmental agencies.

Maryann Burns

Maryann Burns is an accomplished, high-impact consultant with more than 15 years of demonstrated portfolio, program and project management experience. She is passionate about creating and implementing strategic plans to ensure quality product and service delivery. She is adept at building high performing teams and implementing solutions through strategic planning and execution. A seasoned PMO specialist, Maryann is energized by opportunities to push the envelope on leading-edge transformation improvements while offering innovative and practical solutions. Maryann brings an exceptional technical and business acumen to her work, interacting effectively with cross-functional teams of subject matter experts, senior-level executives, and key stakeholders to identify and drive large-scale projects from concept to launch. An innovative thinker, Maryann leverages out-of-the-box thinking to make cross-functional teams effective in ever-changing environments. She is well versed in stabilizing enterprise-level business operations and project execution, and she excels in senior consultant roles guiding all facets of ideation, strategy, execution, high-impact launch, and growth of IT or operational initiatives. Maryann is an expert in providing oversight for systems lifecycle management methodologies – Agile, Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC), and Project Management Lifecycle (PMLC).

Shauna Collingwood

Shauna Collingwood is a passionate advocate of customer-driven change, delivering significant achievements at both strategic and operational levels of major organizations. She has extensive experience and expertise in a broad range of functional disciplines, having held senior executive positions across Asia, Australia, North America and Latin America in P&C insurance, retail investments and banking. Shauna specializes in: customer experience design, execution and measurement; strategic marketing and brand strategy; product and distribution innovation; customer proposition development; customer acquisition, retention and cross sell; integrated digital strategy; multi-channel distribution; CRM and data management; consumer and customer research; business process design and implementation; operations management (including call centers and branch networks); cross functional project management; customer relations and dispute resolution.

David Fenn

David Fenn is an experienced professional in the financial services market and has been active in investment banking, derivatives sales and marketing, wealth management, and advisory work for more than 35 years. Shifting away from Wall St. in 2005, David has been a consultant with Praetorian Advisors where he has advised smaller companies in their capital and strategic formation, leveraging many relationships across the globe and across many industries. From complex insurance derivative structures to an international popcorn maker, David has a diverse background in early stage business development.

Sergio Nobre

An executive for large companies and strategic consulting firms in Latin America and worldwide, Sergio Nobre combines deep technical expertise with business fluency to successfully implement world-class technological solutions for highly complex projects in a range of sectors including insurance, health, systems and information markets. One such project was the successful implementation of Chiefofstaff.com at “Vivenda da Criança” a highly successful non-profit organization in Brazil. Sergio approaches every engagement with entrepreneurial innovation and a long-term vision that translates into his ability to effectively lead, train and implement best practices in the areas of: Strategic Planning, PMO, Program Management, Projects and Contracts, Plans of Business Continuity and Compliance, CCM (Customer Communication Management) and CX (Customer Experience). Sergio holds a degree in Industrial Engineering and an MBA.

Tony Reynolds

Tony is an educator at heart with a B.Ed and B.A. from London University and a thirty-year career as an Athletic Director and Coach. Chiefofstaff.com software is a platform of strategic thinking with actionable follow up, and execution – the embodiment of Tony’s coaching style and hard-earned business experience, which he brings to the table as a Partner. After relocating to America from the U.K., Tony gained entrepreneurial experience as CEO of Pilgrim Sports, a global sports networking company. Tony believes in creating winning teams by building trust in his players and execution based on a coordinated game plan. Tony’s rugby coaching career took him through the college ranks with Boston University and East Select sides, to coaching the Inaugural Collegiate All American XV team on a tour across Australia and New Zealand. His business values and global insight are an outgrowth of this experience traveling and coaching at a highly competitive international level.

Jerry Sherman

Jerry Sherman is the Managing Partner of Entilisys, a strategic consulting group focused on public sector market development. He is a leader and change agent in the information technology industry, and has held numerous roles in technical services, operational management, sales and business development, executive leadership and strategic organizational development, including senior-level executive positions for NCR, Control Data Corporation, Maxcess Corporation, Micronetics Design Corp, and Elixir Technologies. Jerry has a passion for business and collaborative team building, and he is committed to meeting customer and market demands. His contagious enthusiasm instills him and his team members with extraordinary energy and dedication in an environment where creativity and innovation are encouraged. Jerry does not just set out ambitious goals – he motivates people to deliver. A veteran of the U.S. Air Force, Jerry find his greatest motivation and reward in applying the lessons he learned during his service to help others perform beyond expectations. His passion for service extends to his community, where he has served in a variety of leadership capacities with non-profit organizations including Boy Scouts of America, Xplor, The Rainmaker Society, JustUS, The Luke Foundation and his own congregation.

André Thompson

André Thompson is a health and social services executive with experience leading innovation and strategic initiatives across organizations in New York City and Westchester County. His experience spans the fields of healthcare policy, Medicaid services, care coordination, food insecurity, and directing programs that support individuals with disabilities, mental health, and other needs. He also has wide experience in policy, staff training and program development. Related to this, he has delivered numerous presentations and workshops at agencies and regional conferences on health policy, Medicaid, and care coordination to professionals and advocates. His work also includes representing organizations in industry-wide meetings and work-groups in New York State in response to payment and regulatory reform impacting community-based providers.

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If you’d like to become a part of our Chiefofstaff.com Ecosystem, please contact our VP of Strategic Partnerships Melody Badgett at melody.badgett@chiefofstaff.com