Lesley Stewart

Experience

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  Deloitte Consulting

  Jan 1994 - Dec 1998

  Senior Manager

  Extensive account and project experience on large scale SAP implementations.

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  Ciber Inc

  Jan 1999 - Jan 2001

  Senior Manager

  Established and managed a team of internal and external resources to design, develop and market a business process modeling tool

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  Novador Inc

  Jan 2001 - Jan 2005

  Partner

  Management of the application and training of e-business software . Contract negotiation, business development, business analysis, recruiting, business process, product development.

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  BearingPoint

  Jan 2005 - Jan 2009

  Manager

  Project and program management of large process and organizational transformation initiatives in both the commercial and public sectors. Project examples include:Lead the OCM initiative for a large SAP implementation across 68 multi-location government sites.Led the change management program at a large chemicals company undergoing a global instance consolidation and systems upgrade.Program manager for the development and rollout of the global shared services training organization at a life sciences company.Managed the establishment of a global multi-project PMO for a large pharmaceutical company Show less

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  IQVIA

  Jan 2010 - Mar 2022

  Principal Consultant

  I work with clients in the pharmaceutical, medical device, and biotechnology industries to develop optimized processes to improve quality and regulatory compliance, and manage large process and cultural transformation projects.Examples of recent projects include:Facilitated a process and controlled document optimization initiative for the global clinical operations division of a biotechnology company, to standardize global cross-functional processes and deliver supporting controlled documents in order to facilitate improved global regulatory compliance. Setup a process owner network and governance structure to ensure the effective management of continued process improvement initiatives and initiated the project communications program. Led an organizational change management program (OCM) to manage cultural diversity and augment project relations within a globally dispersed, multi-cultural project team for a global biosimilars company and it’s partner CRO.Led the organizational change initiative at a global medical diagnostics company undergoing cultural transformation. Performed organizational assessments and provided organizational change recommendations to senior leadership, developed and implemented a communication program and implemented a program management office.Managed the organizational change and knowledge management programs for a global Regulatory affairs group at a large pharmaceutical company. Developed the regulatory learning and development processes and initiated a program to streamline planning and deployment of role-based training and knowledge management Show less

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  North Highland

  Jun 2022 - Aug 2024

  Expert Practitioner

  In my role as an Expert Practitioner at North Highland in Philadelphia, I led organizational change management and training programs for global pharmaceutical companies. I designed and implemented a global change management program to support a major organizational restructure across multiple sites. Additionally, I managed the organizational change for a global digital transformation program and implemented a communications program to enhance program transparency.