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Patricia Dodgen
Patricia
Dodgen is a Fellow of The Business Forum Association. Patti holds a BS,
Financial Management (Cum Laude), Clemson University, 1977 and has broad
experience as a senior executive in financial, technical, and operational
management for various industries. She has specialized consulting experience
in the telecommunications, broadcasting, print media, and computer technology
fields. Currently, Patti is working on a national project to redesign the
fundraising activities of a major non-profit client. Within the scope of this
project she has literally created a completely new approach for fundraising
for this industry. She conceived of and built the business plan and financial
models for a revolutionary joint venture in fundraising. Additionally, she is
evolving her methods and tools to create a system of applied
benchmarks for an entire industry sector.
Since
co-founding Transformations Consulting Group in 1993, she has utilized her
knowledge to develop the tools and methods to help organizations effectively
manage the complex process of change for her clients. By utilizing her
approaches, TCG's clients in the profit and non-profit sectors have learned
how to navigate these changes by applying Transformations' techniques as the
rudder. Working with clients including PBS (the Public Broadcasting Service),
Gannett Publishing, the US Department of Justice, and the Corporation for
Public Broadcasting, Patti used her extensive knowledge to create initiatives
and programs to solve complex business problems. Her solutions mitigate
conflicting organizational needs to creatively find "win-win-win"
solutions for her clients. By utilizing sensitive, yet objective measurement
techniques with customized and strategic criteria for success, Patti's
solutions have yielded positive financial results in the millions of dollars
for her clients.
Her
approach to business strategy and development evolved during her years with
Dun & Bradstreet as a senior business analyst and with Digital Equipment
Corporation (DEC), where she was a senior financial manager. At Dun &
Bradstreet, Patti had the opportunity to closely examine and analyze the
financial and operational successes and failures of a vast assortment of
businesses of varying size within many industries. As a key senior analyst,
she investigated, analyzed and developed conclusive responses to business
questions for firms such as RJ Reynolds, Belk Store Services, Nucor and
Bernhardt Industries.
While
with DEC, Patti's primary focus was on designing financial systems and tools
to provide critical and time sensitive information to field management. This
information was fundamentally important in allowing management to make key
competitive and tactical decisions quickly and accurately. Through this
experience in the highly volatile computer industry, Patti developed the
financial methodologies and models that are the foundation of Transformations'
consulting approach.
Patti
is a frequent speaker at national conferences on the topics of complex change
management, strategic positioning and "managing by the
numbers".
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