Amy Thompson

Trusted enterprise transformation leader with nearly 30 years of experience helping organizations solve complex challenges by bringing people together around a common purpose. Recognized for building trust, aligning executive stakeholders, and establishing governance frameworks that strengthen portfolio execution, improve cross-functional collaboration, and enable successful enterprise transformation. Known for identifying challenges early, asking the right questions, and helping teams turn complexity into clarity.

Enterprise Transformation & Strategic Advisor (Various Clients) at Independent Consultant (2015-12 – 2026-07)

Partnered with executive leadership to deliver enterprise transformation initiatives spanning governance, PMO leadership, organizational effectiveness, and business process improvement across healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, and technology organizations.

• Designed PMO governance frameworks, executive dashboards, portfolio reporting, RAID management processes, and standardized operating models that improved decision-making, portfolio visibility, and executive governance.
• Led enterprise transformation initiatives across healthcare, telecommunications, manufacturing, and technology organizations, partnering with executive leadership to improve governance, business processes, and organizational effectiveness.
• Designed governance frameworks, executive reporting, and standardized operating models that strengthened decision-making and cross-functional alignment.
• Facilitated executive workshops and stakeholder engagement sessions that built consensus, accelerated change adoption, and improved collaboration across business and technology teams.
• Served as a trusted advisor to executives, coaching leaders through organizational change while strengthening accountability, communication, and sustainable operating practices.
• Consistently recognized for bringing diverse stakeholders together, uncovering shared objectives, and helping organizations move beyond siloed decision-making toward enterprise-wide collaboration.

Senior Consultant at North Highland (2024-06 – 2026-05)

• Identified $1.47M in projected annual procurement savings through strategic sourcing and operational assessment.
• Delivered strategic transformation initiatives supporting healthcare supply chain modernization, procurement optimization, and organizational effectiveness.
• Facilitated executive stakeholder engagement across Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, IT, and Clinical leadership to align priorities and improve decision-making.
• Conducted enterprise organizational assessments spanning 61 stakeholders across 23 departments to identify improvement opportunities.
• Designed future-state operating models, governance frameworks, implementation roadmaps, and PMO controls supporting enterprise transformation, executive decision-making, and portfolio delivery.

Program Manager at Comcast

• Built and implemented enterprise Change Control governance, establishing standardized review, approval, communication, and deployment processes while strengthening program controls, risk management, executive oversight, and organizational change management.
• Led cross-functional coordination across technical and business organizations to improve implementation quality and reduce operational risk.

Consultant at EchoStar

• Partnered with executive leadership to establish enterprise Release Management governance, coordinating integrated release planning, dependency management, RAID reviews, stakeholder communications, executive go/no-go decisions, and cross-functional portfolio execution.
• Recognized recurring production issues caused by siloed project implementations and proposed the creation of an enterprise Release Management function.
• Partnered with executive leadership to implement enterprise release governance, coordinating IT, Engineering, Customer Service, and Project Management through integrated planning, dependency management, stakeholder communication, and executive go/no-go decision-making.
• Established enterprise Release Management governance that aligned IT, Engineering, Customer Service, and Project Management across concurrent initiatives, improving communication, reducing implementation risk, and creating formal executive go/no-go decision processes.

Project Management Professional (PMP®) in Project Management – Project Management Institute

Bachelor of Arts in Psychology – Wittenberg University

Master of Public Administration in Public Administration – University of Colorado