Joan Krawchik

About Joan Krawchik

Business operations are the heartbeat of every company. It’s what keeps systems moving along. That’s where I add value. I empower those around me while providing guidance and support on ways to add efficiency, eliminate waste, and drive productivity, all within a continuous improvement mindset. By activating staff to do their best, I firmly believe that their success is my success. As a result, I have gained a reputation as an inclusive people activator who champions individual successes by providing right-fit tools and professional development within accountability-driven environments, combined with mentoring, coaching, and 1:1 support. Building high-performing synergy, I establish strong relationships enterprise-wide, from the C-suite to the front line. Additionally, understanding the types of challenges team members are experiencing requires getting my hands dirty to understand the work at hand in order to develop strong, well thought out plans and processes.Leveraging team feedback, first-hand observations, and community problem-solving, I gain acceptance through thoughtful enterprise wide engagements, and engage cross-functional teams in order to identify and implement processes and tools that will enable teams to work efficiently. One of the greatest joys of my work is fixing clunky processes that slow down the organization, resulting in revenue loss. Leveraging my experience as a forward-facing strategist, I incorporate external factors and market forces into developing workflows, roadmaps, and processes that create a flexible ability to pivot / out-position competitors.My strengths also include being a courageous leader troubleshooting difficult internal and external customer conversations. This helps me architect positive outcomes that create stronger, more resilient organizations. Additionally, I work hard to constantly monitor budgets to avoid cost creep while remaining nimble to respond to unplanned opportunities.

Experience

1. Director, Strategic Initiatives

   Sparks, A Freeman Company

   Mar 1998 — Present