Roelf is available for hire
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Verified Expert in Finance
Management Consulting Expert
Location
Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Toptal Member Since
May 10, 2022
Roelf is a change management leader with proven expertise working with organizational change teams in implementing transformation processes at people and tooling levels. He has worked with profit and nonprofit organizations of all sizes across different industries. With a comprehensive understanding of change management processes, strategies, and tools, Roelf has led many organizations through needed transformation paths positively impacting their businesses.
Career Highlights
CEO
The Right Talent
Lead of Business Intelligence Projects
Eigenworks
CEO
Workplace Competence International
Education Highlights
Doctor of Business Administration (DBA)
Henley Management College
Expertise
Work Experience
CEO
2016 - 2022
The Right Talent
- Completed consulting assignments in organizational change, interim management, and program management for clients in various industry sectors.
- Built e-learning programs focused on soft skills and business leadership development.
- Acted as the recruiting process expert consulting a not-for-profit service organization implementing a top-to-button technology transformation that required hiring high-performers for newly defined, rapidly changing leadership roles.
- Consulted a profession-regulatory agency required by the government to merge two other agencies into one organization. Contributed as an expert on action plans for people, process, and tooling integration.
- Advised two organizations seeking to transform the way they did their daily from customer interaction to the executive team. Consulted on this project as an expert on talent management process improvement and decision-making process transformation.
Focus areas: IT Program Management, Interim Management, E-learning, Management
Lead of Business Intelligence Projects
2015 - 2016
Eigenworks
- Completed business intelligence studies with competitive win-loss analysis by interviewing current clients, lost clients, pitched prospects, and other relevant business leaders for organizations offering software-based services or selling software.
- Compiled results into reports and made presentations to C-level client leaders.
- Advised the CEO on business strategy and business intelligence processes.
Focus areas: Business Intelligence (BI)
CEO
1986 - 2014
Workplace Competence International
- Completed numerous project manager / program manager contract assignments in financial services, information technology software development.
- Completed organizational change, business strategy, professional development, business process engineering, and executive coaching consulting assignments for a large variety of North American clients.
- Invited to take full time internal interim executive roles several times based on the work done in these assignments.
Focus areas: Agile Program Management, Strategy, Program Management, Change Leadership, Interim Management
Vice President | Information Technology
1997 - 2001
Manulife Financial
- Created an integrated professional organization focused on eCommerce software development and production management that used Agile techniques before they became the norm.
- Delivered over 140 eCommerce projects within time and budget targets, competing against outside suppliers for much of this work.
- Built and ran the year 2000 (Y2K) executive oversight and change management process that successfully implemented thousands of required changes in the IT production environment before the November Y2K freeze.
- Led the talent and performance management transformation activity in an IT organization with an annual operating budget of $600 million and approximately 1500 professionals.
- Revamped the performance management, recruiting, talent development, compensation administration, job evaluation, salary survey, and other talent management processes, resulting in substantial improvements in service delivery.
Focus areas: Agile Transformation, Information Technology
Education
1994 - 1997
Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) in Management Consulting and Organizational Change
Henley Management College - Henley, United Kingdon
Certifications
SEPTEMBER 2003 - PRESENT
Alternate Dispute Resolution (ADR) | Mediation and Negotiation Skills
ADR Institute of Ontario
JANUARY 2000 - PRESENT
MBTI Step II
The Myers-Briggs Company
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