Jeri Sessler

Current

Vice President, Standards and Practices Review Division at The Green Registry
Advisor at RNIA/Libertango Partners
COO at EveryMedia, Inc.

CEO at SDMR, Inc.

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Past

Interim Chief Procurement Officer at Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center--Seattle, WA
Contract Consultant at Wellspring Partners, a unit of Huron Consulting Group
Chief Operating Officer at Vsource, Inc.

Principal Consultant and COE Leader, FVP Practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers
Director, Practice Development; Consulting Manager at A. T. Kearney

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Education

Lake Forest Graduate School of Managment
Northern Illinois University

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9 people have recommended Jeri

Connections

214 connections

Industry

Management Consulting

Websites

RNIA

Jeri Sessler’s Summary

I am an experienced senior consultant with over 25+years experience in the areas of business strategy, merger due diligence/ integration, supply chain, strategic sourcing/offshoring, and operations performance improvement.

I am recognized as a creative thinker who brings best practices and lessons learned from multiple industries to my clients creating highly effective and unique solutions to their challenges. My passion is producing results for my clients and those results have totalled over $1.7 billion in net bottom line improvements for clients in the last 7 years.

I enjoy intellectually challenging, collaborative environments and have the intensity and focus required to succeed. My consulting experience coupled with start up company leadership and interim senior management roles gives me a unique ability to create implementable strategies and tangible results for organizations of any size.

I produce results that can be seen, felt and touched for my clients and can do the same for your company. I am especially good at developing strategic alliances/ partnerships, providing thought leadership, program management, facilitating process improvement and value stream analysis, developing offshoring/outsourcing strategies, de-mystifying convoluted contracts/renegotiating contracts, assessing complex situations quickly and thoroughly, understanding multi-focal problems and bringing multiple resources together to resolve them.

Jeri Sessler’s Specialties:

Business and marketing strategy, procurement strategy/strategic sourcing, mergers/acquisitions due diligence and integration, competitive analysis, contract negotiation, operational cost reduction strategy/implementation, supply chain strategy/implementation, business turnarounds, and organization strategy.

Jeri Sessler’s Experience

Vice President, Standards and Practices Review Division

The Green Registry

(Environmental Services industry)

May 2008 — Present (6 months)

The Green Registry certifies products and services as environmentally friendly by endowing qualied products with The Green Registry Seal. The Seal is an objective, third party verification to consumers that the products/services are, indeed, environmentally friendly and that the consumers can easily select products and services that are good for their families and good for the planet. My role is to work with companies to ensure their products/services meet the environmental standards established by The Green Registry as well as be the primary liaison to The Green Registry Advisory Board, a gathering of credentialed University Professors each with an eco-specialty or discipline.

No one else in the marketplace is making the same sort of long over due effort – certifying everything from laundry detergent to computers to building materials and more. That’s really the foundation of a healthy planet, everyone doing their part, no matter how small it may seem.
Advisor

RNIA/Libertango Partners

(Management Consulting industry)

2008 — Present (less than a year)

RNIA is the premier industry association created to define and promote Relationship Capital (RC) amongst social media companies, corporations, and individuals. Creates the Common Body of Knowledge (CBOK) and trains/licenses individuals and companies to utilize CBOK in their everyday interactions. Works to monetize trust and track the value-added to stakeholders from following through on commitments and promises to each other, customers, suppliers and other relationships in the 360 degree eco-system of a company.
COO

EveryMedia, Inc.

(Management Consulting industry)

2007 — Present (1 year)

50% owned by SDMR, Inc., EveryMedia, Inc. specializes in providing advisory services to companies who wish to deliver their products/services through alternative media. Creates the overall business and marketing strategy; identifies the technology platform(s) needed, and sources/engages providers to craft a unique solution for our clients. Also provides services to early, mid-stage and other stage companies wishing to prepare for funding and will advise on business plan creation, strategic business development, as well as funding source identification/solicitation/presentation.
CEO

SDMR, Inc.

(Privately Held; 1-10 employees; Management Consulting industry)

August 2000 — Present (8 years 3 months)

Independent consultancy providing business performance improvement/cost improvement solutions in the areas of business strategy, operations, supply chain, organization, strategic sourcing, merger due diligence and integration.

Through its subsidiary company, PowerLogic Systems, SDMR, Inc. develops, distributes and markets integrated energy savings products, consulting services and outsourcing solutions sold into residential construction, commercial operations and industrial companies. Delivers complete energy related solutions and provides innovative and integrative solutions. Helps clients cut Energy costs and usage through significantly reducing energy consumption, and of the investment, purchasing, and maintenance of equipment related to energy production or usage, particularly HVAC, Chillers, Steam Generation, Refrigeration equipment, lighting systems, or other equipment.
Interim Chief Procurement Officer

Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center--Seattle, WA

(Hospital & Health Care industry)

October 2006 — August 2007 (11 months)

An SDMR, Inc. project: In this role I was responsible for forming and operating the strategic sourcing division for Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in support of Children's long range strategic plan. This division includes all procurement and materials management activities.
Contract Consultant

Wellspring Partners, a unit of Huron Consulting Group

(Public Company; 1001-5000 employees; Hospital & Health Care industry)

August 2002 — December 2006 (4 years 5 months)

An SDMR Relationship: I subcontracted to Wellspring for over 4 years in the hospital consulting arena as one of their lead consultants and project managers for non-labor operational performance improvement and cost reduction services, primarily in procurement and strategic sourcing of products and services used by the hospitals. Wellspring was acquired in January of 2007 by Huron Consulting in Chicago.
Chief Operating Officer

Vsource, Inc.

(Public Company; 51-200 employees; VSCE; Information Technology and Services industry)

June 1999 — June 2000 (1 year 1 month)

Former Internet Application Service Provider specializing in Internet Business-to-Business applications in eMarketplace and eProcurement platforms (Company currently performs business process/ business operations outsourcing in Asia). Chief Operations Officer.

* Helped grow a start up to $3 million in sales in six months after market entry, managed operations, created needed infrastructure and business process while responsible for 76 direct reports
* Created successful alliance partnerships with IBM, US West, PwC, CEXP, Boise Cascade for a start up eProcurement company within the first three months of employment
Principal Consultant and COE Leader, FVP Practice

PricewaterhouseCoopers

(Partnership; 10,001 or more employees; Management Consulting industry)

May 1996 — September 1999 (3 years 5 months)

Center of Excellence (COE) Leader and Principal Consultant, Full Value Procurement Practice, West Region ($35 million regional practice with 23 direct reports); Principal Consultant, Global Full Value Procurement Practice New York City; Principal Consultant, Management Horizons Global Retail Practice, Columbus, Ohio.
Director, Practice Development; Consulting Manager

A. T. Kearney

(Privately Held; 1001-5000 employees; Management Consulting industry)

1982 — 1996 (14 years)

Management Consulting Group, 1992 – 1996: Director of Practice Development, Global Supply Chain Integration Practice ($85 million global practice)
Management Consulting Group, 1989 – 1992: Manager, Business Marketing and Strategy Practice
Executive Search Practice, 1981 -- 1989: Global Director of Research

Jeri Sessler’s Education

Lake Forest Graduate School of Managment

MBA, General Business, September 1987 — June 1989
Northern Illinois University

BA, Anthropology, 1971 — 1976

Activities and Societies:

President, AIESEC chapter, Northern Illinois University 1973 - 1975;
Delegate to the AIESEC New York special congress at the United Nations 1974;
Board of Advisors, Newman Center, Dekalb IL 1973 - 1975;
Curriculum Development Manager, Loyola University Institute for Religious Education, Newman Catholic Student Center 1974-1975

Additional Information

Jeri Sessler’s Websites:

RNIA

Jeri Sessler’s Interests:

Cooking (not baking), reading, knitting and corporate matchmaking. Building/launching companies, fostering knowledge and innovation: "Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star." –Confucius