September Spore, Core Team Facilitator
September is one of Leadership Strategies’ West Coast Core Facilitators and a certified instructor for our flagship facilitation course, The Effective Facilitator. She has experience facilitating all levels of organizations from executives, department/process teams, salaried staff, to hourly operations employees. September has over 20 years of corporate, consulting, and coaching experience with small, medium, and Fortune 500 companies.
September’s facilitation experience includes:
| Corporate Strategy |
Future State Process Visions (reengineering) |
Current State Process Analysis |
| New Product Implementations |
Business User IT Requirements |
Annual Strategy Retreats |
| General Meetings |
Issues Resolutions |
Project Planning |
September works closely with executives on initiatives geared towards improving performance and profitability including: Strategy Management (assessing and optimizing organizational design and alignment); Process & Performance Management (re-engineering, sales transformation, ABC, balanced scorecards); People Management (compensation & rewards, job fit, performance measurement, high impact teams, leadership and management development, coaching); Strategic planning facilitation; and Change Management. Her clients range from $3 M to $11 B in revenue.
Prior to starting her own consulting business, September was a Senior Manager at Ernst & Young LLP, in the management consulting practice. She delivered process re-engineering and performance management services, including engagement and project management, to Fortune 100 consulting clients in the U.S. and Europe. September also served as the Ernst & Young’s National Cost and Performance Improvement Service Line Leader with responsibility for creating, launching, and training performance management consulting services throughout E&Y offices in the United States. From 1997-2000 September lead E&Y’s Entrepreneurial and Middle Market Consulting Practice in Phoenix, Arizona. Prior to Ernst & Young, she was a financial and cost analyst with Ford Motor Company.
September has a MBA from the University of Michigan and certifications in Change Management, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, and Coaching. Her rare combination of both people and operations helps companies achieve dramatic bottom-line business results. September has an in-depth understanding of resistance to change with proven, yet uncommon techniques for eliminating it. She applies this knowledge to accomplish rapid personal, team, and organizational improvements.
September’s passion is to serve as a creative, knowledgeable business change advisor for executives ready to blow the doors off business as usual. |