A 'roll up the sleeves" type leader with a proven track record in improving business performance, Mr. MacNeil has a blend of management & consulting experience which began more than 15 years ago & includes employment with Arthur Andersen, Bose Corporation & Deutsche Bank. He has significant experience working in Europe & Asia as well as the U.S. and has led and/or facilitated numerous strategic planning efforts, complex change management & restructuring initiatives, new business and division start ups, turn around management situations, Total Quality & Leadership Development programs, and many other projects & programs.
He has consistently delivered results that tangibly improved company performance & profitability. A student of leadership, group psychology, strategic planning and corporate systems design, Mr. MacNeil is a motivational leader with a special talent for working with management & groups at all levels as a change agent, facilitator & catalyst for achieving desired results. Considered as a master process facilitator, Mr. MacNeil is highly skilled in using process methodologies and managing in large change environments.
Mr. MacNeil has an MBA, is a certified teacher in business and has numerous other education and business certifications including Change Management, TQM (Total Quality Management), Process Facilitation and SAP ERP.
Mr. MacNeil has worked at the strategic, coordinating and operating levels in companies to facilitate direction setting, to mobilize commitment to goals and to implement business strategies, organization designs, enabling IS infrastructures and other large corporate change.
Mr. MacNeil has also worked as a general manager in small entrepreneurial start up environments as well as managing director for the start up of new business areas within large corporations.
He has had expatriate and temporary assignments in both Europe and Asia and works well with European and Asian cultures. Mr. MacNeil lived in Germany for 4 years with director level responsibilities covering 16 countries in western Europe. He has also worked on lengthy assignments in both Japan and Singapore.
As an independent management consultant Mr. MacNeil has worked on his own engagements as well with other well known consulting firms including Results Based Leadership (RBL), 1.0 Novations (now Bayhill Group) and Technology Evaluation.com.
Mr. MacNeil is part of the PROSCI Change Management Community of Practice and is affiliated with the Dooley Leadership Development Institute.
- Directed turnaround recovery of a consumer electronics company's
largest European Division across 16
countries. Results: from record losses to record profitability
over a 3 year period.
- Directed start up of an B2B eCommerce joint venture of two German multinational companies
- Started and led an internal consulting group to the executive level - global U.S. corporation
- Directed start up of a European retail direct business division- global U.S. consumer products company
- Facilitated & Counseled a large change restructuring OD effort in Asia for a global UK hotel company -
- Directed start up of an B2B eCommerce joint venture of two German multinational companies
- Started and led an internal consulting group to the executive level - global U.S. corporation
- Directed start up of a European retail direct business division- global U.S. consumer products company
- Facilitated & Counseled a large change restructuring OD effort in Asia for a global UK hotel company -
Results: common stock share value doubled within two years.
- Facilitated a restructuring effort in Europe for a multinational U.S. consumer products company
- Facilitated a restructuring effort in Europe for a multinational U.S. consumer products company
- Managed two small entrepreneurial Start
Up companies
- Process Facilitator for numerous strategic planning
projects, product planning efforts & exec meetings
- Project manager for numerous IS projects, process reengineering & business effectiveness initiatives
- Project manager for numerous IS projects, process reengineering & business effectiveness initiatives
- Change Management leader & Steering Committee member
for a company's largest SAP project
- Expatriate management experience in Europe; also worked at length in Japan and Singapore
- Taught an 18 month 'soft skills' Leadership Development Program for IS & Finance Managers
- Ten years IS management experience in systems planning, systems development & client management
- Expatriate management experience in Europe; also worked at length in Japan and Singapore
- Taught an 18 month 'soft skills' Leadership Development Program for IS & Finance Managers
- Ten years IS management experience in systems planning, systems development & client management
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Planned and managed IS systems efforts in the US, Europe and Asia
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Key force in implementing a Total Quality program with use of TQ &
Six Sigma Tools
- 5 Years 'Big 5' Consulting experience
- Two President's Awards, one European Business Management Award
- Two President's Awards, one European Business Management Award
Mr. MacNeil is a student of leadership, business process and group dynamics within the context of getting results. On the macro or strategic level, he works with leaders in creating business strategy, architecting their organizations, understanding change and cost drivers, building necessary organization capabilities, aligning businesses and IT with company strategy and building human capital. On the coordinating and operating level Mr. MacNeil works with leaders to implement projects and programs that execute strategy. These may include management and roll out of large change management or restructuring efforts, implementation of a Total Quality program, starting a new business area or other projects or programs.
roles of setting direction, mobilizing individual commitment and building organizational capabilities.