secretarial work done for networking and WIN MANAGEMENT CONSULTING WORK WITH THE ALUMNI OF a HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL EXEC CORSE FOR BUSINESS OWNERS
On the 14.07.21 I was asked to act as secretary for the Harvard Business School OPM Club by its then chair Volodymyr Berezhniy. In the past I had only leadership roles in a few Harvard clubs/SIG, but I humbly accepted to help.
I publish below the meeting minutes I took as evidence of my skills in keeping records for interviews and meetings:
the conversations were in the public domain and have double checked the accuracy of the minutes against the audio records. They aren't transcripts, but a summarised version of each contribute in the conversation, covering each point each participant made, after their name.
I had volunteered to do this low skilled intellectual labour work for 3 months as a way of networking in the I hope that the business owners who I helped with minutes would appreciate my can-do and proactive attitude, learn about me (as I also took part in the conversations) and consider me for independent management consulting work I could do for their owned businesses.
This alternative approach to business development was meant to create rapport before providing a description of my consulting services, interviews to understand the status quo and goals of their business, and a scope of work contract to offer my help for some goal.
Pro-Bono Secretarial work for networking and business development
You can here download the PDF for each meeting (with hyperlinks to each speaker's profiles) or visualise the content on your browser by clicking on the icon. You can also play an abstract of the audio-grabs of these public meetings that were held on Clubhouse with the player, or listen as a podcast the entire version at "Public meetings with owners and presidents"on Spotify.
Offered consulting capabilities & work precedents
Capabilities
Strategy
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Status quo analysis & future state solutions to meet strategic goals
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Strategy planning, implementation
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JV and M&A feasibility studies
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Commercial due diligence (CDD)
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Go to market and new products
Operations
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Tech-enabled process optimisation
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Digital transformations definition, planning and project management
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Operational processes automation
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Procurement analysis and strategy
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Cost cutting definition and delivery
Org. Design
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Organisational design maturity assessment & phased re-design
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Targeted Operating Models
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Corporate governance maturity assessment, future states design
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Transformation & change projects
People
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Learning and Development (L&D) programs, courses and workshops creation, delivery and evaluation
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People performance assessment
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Change management training
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Interviewing of potential hires
Research
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Primary and secondary research
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Knowledge management
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Industries & best practice insights
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Market quantitative research
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Stakeholders interviews for data gathering & qualitative research
Analytics
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Data analysis and visualisation for diagnostics & scenarios forecasting
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Main software used: Excel, Python, Tableau, Tibco Spotfire, Think-Cell
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Investment valuation modelling
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Data driven decks & presentations