Neil Goodrich
2025 Chicago Titan 100 | 2024 Chicago CIO of the Year | Creating Value through Innovation, AI, Digital Products, and Culture
- Role
- Chief Innovation Officer at Envista Forensics
- Location
- Evanston, IL, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Neil Goodrich
I help organizations bring new ideas to life, shaping and creating what hasn’t existed before. My career has been defined by stepping into newly designed roles and establishing first-time capabilities. Over the years, I’ve built award-winning teams and introduced disruptive digital products that opened new possibilities for how people work and how businesses grow.Along the way, I’ve had the opportunity to reimagine employee and customer experiences as well as the processes that drive them. I’ve elevated organizational performance by building foundational platforms and functions, ranging from project management offices and CRMs to product management and enterprise-wide data ecosystems. At the heart of it all is finding ways to spark imagination and new ways of thinking. That has meant guiding digital transformations and fostering dialogue that reshapes culture, while leveraging technology as a creative force that drives business value.And while the details of each story are different, the results have been consistent: delivering strategic firsts that fuel growth, inspire innovation, and translate new ideas into real results.KEY AREAS OF IMPACTOrganizational & Digital Transformation | Strategic Planning & Execution | Capability Creation & Scaling | Enterprise Innovation | Vision Casting & Storytelling | Cross-Functional Leadership | Strategic Partnerships & Collaboration | Change Enablement & Facilitation | Team & Culture Building | ERP, CRM, BI & Data Analytics
Experience
Chief Innovation Officer
May 2022 — Present · Chicago, IL, US
Selected as the company’s first executive dedicated to innovation and digital strategy, with responsibility for all IT functions. Redefined the role of the technology team by resolving long-standing legacy issues, eliminating recurring business disruptions, and repositioning the group as trusted innovators. Implemented Salesforce, launched Power BI, and delivered on a portfolio of successes ranging from process automation to proprietary digital products that reshaped workflows and execution. Awarded the 2024 Chicago CIO of the Year award for enterprise transformation.
Education
University of Illinois Chicago
BA, Criminology, Law & Justice
University of Illinois Chicago-College of Business Administration
MBA, Operations Management
Skills
- Change Management
- Organizational Development
- Sales Operations
- Enterprise Software
- Customer Service
- Certified Project Manager
- Project Management
- Strategic Planning
- Team Leadership
- Erp
- Management
- Organizational Change
- Vendor Management
- Process Improvement
- Budgeting
- Business Analysis
- Budgets
- Business Process Improvement
- Executive Management
- Sdlc
- Staff Development
- IT Management
- Leadership
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