Laura Colcord, Partner

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General Expertise

Laura Colcord has extensive experience in the energy and chemicals industries, which includes corporate and operational transformation, strategic business planning, and business process redesign — especially for supply–chain processes.

Process redesign work focuses on applying lean principles to process industries and non-manufacturing processes. Laura also has Lean Transformation experience in chemicals, electronics, health care, financial services, pharmaceutical industries, as well as traditional manufacturing.

Individual Areas of Expertise

• Lean Sigma – providing new tools and paradigms for process transformation.
• Knowledge Management – to support and institutionalize performance transformation.
• Leadership Coaching – designing and driving systematic transformation programs.
• Change Management – ensuring sustainable capability changes that lock in benefits.
• Project Leadership – leading teams to deliver rapid results.

Professional Background

• Director, Dove Consulting
• Senior Associate, Booz-Allen & Hamilton
• Supply Chain Leader, Exxon Chemical Co.

Representative Clients

• GSK
• Raytheon
• AlliedSignal
• B.F. Goodrich
• Delphi
• Johnson & Johnson
• World Kitchen
• Southern Company
• Metromedia Restaurant Group

Education and Associations

• M.B.A., International Business, New York University (Dean’s Award for Scholarship)
• Fulbright Scholarship, Karlsruhe, Germany
• B.S., Chemical Engineering, University of Maryland Summa Cum Laude, General Honors, 14 scholarships and awards.

"With this kind of work there is a breakthrough point when our clients realize that change is possible, change that would have seemed unimaginable just a few weeks ago. They see ways to change their environment and create a whole new future. THEN we know that the impact will continue long after we are gone."