Clients

Janice Neitzel, founder of Sustainable Solutions Group, has provided facilitation and consulting services to many organizations, including:

Facilitated store manager focus groups to determine most effective methods to deliver information of their socially responsible business practices to McDonald’s 340,000 U.S. customer-facing brand ambassadors.
McDonald's
Solo Cup

Facilitated VP and plant management in strategic planning of short and long-term opportunities to increase eco-efficiencies and reduce expenses at a Chicago cutlery and straw manufacturing plant.

Analyzed renewable energy firm’s order to fulfillment operations of residential / commercial installations.  Proposed process improvements to increase efficiencies and reduce labor expense by 10-14% annually.

Solar Service
Baxter International

As vital support for Baxter’s corporate acquisition strategy, developed approach and facilitated 22 functional areas to reengineer acquisition process according to data dependencies resulting in a comprehensive work plan for the seamless acquisition integration.

Facilitated stakeholder engagement for multiple Illinois food and farm NGOs, brainstorming methods to promote locally grown, family farmed food at national holistic grocery retailers.

Illinois Stewardship Alliance
cars.com

Redesigned customer-facing automotive database of new and used car inventories.  Led data conversion and implementation of highest impact subject areas, providing better customer information and competitive advantage for faster, more accurate website searches.

As a result of outsourcing, designed and facilitated the 3-month transition of Business Information Managers from classic technical “help desk” roles to newer strategic roles.

BP
Rolling Thunder Down Home Democracy Tour
Collaborated with national and local sustainable agriculture NGOs in planning Food and Farm program of 2001 Chicago Rolling Thunder “Bring Back Democracy” event, featuring Jim Hightower, Studs Terkel, Erykah Badu, and Patch Adams.

Process/Data Analyst at Helene Curtis in corporate Information Engineering initiatives of Finance, Operations, Sales, Operations, Raw Materials and Professional Channel functions producing world-class integrated information systems plan resulting in stock price doubling and Unilever acquisition.

Unilever
CIMCO

Proposed Process Reengineering solution and facilitated participants from 12 functional areas to reengineer inefficient and overlappping Order to Fulfillment process for phone service installation reducing turnaround time and labor expense with improved customer service.

You may download Janice Neitzel's resume to view her corporate consulting and NGO experience.Document
Janice Neitzel Resume

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