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John Guadagnino Regional Director and President Americas |
Successful change management initiatives usually can be traced to a team oriented environment enabled by strong leadership. The role of senior management and consultants is to show employees how to win. By sharing their vision of where the organization is headed, and by providing the tools and techniques to get there, a grassroots level of positive change will be evidenced. This is teamwork resulting in a transformed organization from both performance and cultural perspectives.
John has over 25 years of senior level management consulting experience in business development, program analysis, and operational delivery in the United States, Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom and Australia. Previously he worked in the financial services industry as a senior manager in insurance and banking operations.
He has sold, analyzed and managed multi-functional improvement programs and projects that have included Strategic Planning, Supply Chain Integration, Product and Market Analysis, Organizational Restructuring, Functional Alignment, Service Level Analysis, Financial Analysis and Work Simplification and Measurement. He has also facilitated and coached client executive teams in Executive Alignment, Problem Solving, and Team Building. This participative approach has resulted in major quantitative benefits to client organizations.
His experience in Health Care includes hospitals, labs, and managed care providers. He has also worked in a variety of manufacturing industries including pulp and paper making, automotive, steel fabrication, small motor manufacturing and assembly, recreational boats, school buses, telecommunications wire, medical devices and kits, pharmaceuticals, and bulk commodities. His in-depth background in the financial services industry includes retail and commercial banking, securities processing, mortgage banking, life, health, and property and casualty insurance and credit card companies. He has also done work in the retail sales, food service and airline industries.
John is Regional Director and President of Quest Worldwide North America.
He has an MBA in Financial Management from Long Island University in Brooklyn and BS in Management and Marketing from C.W. Post College in Brookville, New York. John has also been a speaker at the American Bankers Association and other seminars on planning for productivity.