• About

    Spearfish Innovation is a professional services consulting firm specializing in innovation and team performance. By accelerating businesses through challenging lifecycle inflection points – those times when doing things the same old way just won’t cut it – we translate your strategic initiatives into business results.

    Our Approach

    At Spearfish Innovation we believe the power of collaboration in concert with tailored programs and tools can sustainably release vast amounts of untapped energy in your organization. Working together towards shared objectives builds trust, accelerates performance and delivers results.

    Our Services

    Spearfish’s consultants draw on their extensive backgrounds in strategy and cross-organization collaboration to get results that work for you. With our deep expertise and practical experience we help you get the results you need.

    Our Team

    Meet our team of skilled, dedicated consultants.

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    Spearfish Innovation has offices in Massachusetts, California, and Washington, and works around the world. Click for more information

    Business is CAOS!

    The business lifecycle goes through five major transition points, Creating, Accelerating, Optimizing, Sustaining, and Renewal. Each point is a change that can disrupt operations, cause slowdowns, variations in performance, and demand modifications to established processes and strategies. Transitions will occur at different times and depend on your industry and your competitive situation. But when things happen they can happen fast!

    When you’re stuck it’s easy to believe that everything is broken, but in our experience that is never the case. By collaboratively assessing your business system we will help you identify areas of focus and prioritize the necessary changes for you to continue driving forward.

    Our Approach

    Crystallize

    Most of our clients know where they want to go, but many struggle to take the next step. We make sure you are clear on your destination, have a roadmap to get there, and the insights to make critical decisions that along the way. 

    Align

    Strategies don’t make good secrets. There is no substitute for rapid, collaborative decision-making about how your organization and your partners are going to reach your goals together.

    Launch

    With Spearfish Innovation’s help, you will launch your teams with purpose, measure their progress and discover new ways of working that keeps everyone engaged and focused.

    People We Work With

    Our Team

    As an executive consultant with concentration on business strategy and innovation, Mike has over 20 years of direct consulting experience with clients large and small across a broad range of industries. Mike is passionate about helping teams get unstuck and moving forward so that they can achieve their greatest ambitions. With a business background that includes line management experience in global marketing, R&D, and supply chain operations, he brings a wealth of practical knowledge and systems thinking to his engagements. 

    As Hewlett-Packard’s Vice President of Global Operations Strategy, Mike led HP’s $50 billion supply chain social responsibility team, Lean Sigma, and strategic planning functions. Over the past 30 years Mike has lived and managed teams in the United States, UK, Germany, and Singapore. In addition to strong analytical and communication abilities, his facilitative skills range from designing and delivering large group (75+ participants) multi-day events, to small, virtual team planning sessions.

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    With over 25 years of business, leadership, consulting and executive coaching experience, Deb helps leaders and teams rapidly achieve critical results in complex and rapidly changing environments. As a coach and facilitator, she has collaborated extensively with executives, senior managers, technology and product strategists, marketing, and operational professionals in a variety of organizations and industry sectors.

    A veteran of the high-tech industry, Deb has held a variety of management and cross-organizational leadership roles in marketing, distribution channel programs and operations. Prior to launching her own company, Deb developed and led an innovative internal management consulting practice within a Fortune15 company focused on accelerating time to market for complex cross-company initiatives.

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    As an executive consultant, Sue brings her combination of strategic and operational leadership experience to help boards, leaders and teams create and implement strategic choices that deliver results. Sue’s collaborative cross-functional approach and understanding supports the strategic and operational team alignment that enables execution. As a coach, she believes that the best results come through engaging and fostering a high performing, committed, diverse, and collaborative workforce.

    Most recently, Sue served as Chief Operating Officer for a global foundation tackling climate change. In her role, Sue transformed the organization’s business models for high growth, while ensuring internal alignment between its strategic and operational plans. She also introduced a global hybrid working model while tripling the number of employees. At a Fortune 50 technology company, Sue held a variety of leadership roles in marketing, finance and R&D. While Vice President and General Manager of a 500-person professional services and software business she was responsible for operations in over 20 countries.

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    Wade excels at helping teams develop strategies, specify objectives, and capitalize on their strengths. Working for over 25 years in high-tech, Wade’s roles have included leadership positions in financial systems transformation, supply chain strategy, and operational planning. His extensive experience leading global teams through successful corporate-wide process innovation programs demonstrates his ability to inspire teams with vision, yet still sweat the details. His cross-functional experience gives him the rare ability to understand and overcome the subtle challenges required to make functional transformation stick.

    Wade enjoys nothing more than helping a team come together with a shared understanding of the issues at hand and tackle them head on. His collaborative, no-nonsense approach to problem solving gives teams the energy and confidence they need for success.

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