Valerie Woerner

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ABOUT VALERIE WOERNER

Valerie Woerner is an accomplished CEO/ President/ COO, Ross Executive Education Coach and an experienced and influential Board member, for numerous for-profit, and non-profit Boards of Directors. Her authentic and collaborative leadership experience began in banking where she developed a strong finance foundation and has included high growth business building roles, start up and turnaround successes. As CEO, Valerie has taken on corporate turn arounds, transforming under performing manufacturers into innovative, profitable ventures with incredible financial skill, well-crafted strategies, consensus building, and inspiring employees to peak performance. She is a qualified financial expert with M&A and HR expertise, speaker and PDA member who consistently creates and delivers value in everything she undertakes.CEO | PRESIDENT: ‘Rescued’ Artichoke Industries, building a State-Of-The Art plant, installing management and manufacturing best practices, and reduced headcount by 70%, resulting in an Exit at a 10X return to the shareholders.Transformed Snokist Growers who was weeks from bankruptcy by significantly improving financial performance, introducing successful innovation and joint ventures to the industry, upgrading equipment and enhancing best practices. As founder and CEO of ‘CEO At Your Service’, Valerie provides senior and extremely impactful consulting service to a variety of industries. Adept at sourcing, negotiating, and integrating M&A transactions to accelerate shareholder value.INDEPENDENT DIRECTOR• Fifteen years of Board experience. Audit (Qualified Financial Expert) and Finance Chair. • Independent Director, Larson Fruit Company. Developed Exit strategies and led M&A transaction.• Experience on eight non-profit Boards, including University, Chamber of Commerce, Industry Association, Easter Seals and Arts.• Acknowledged for bringing leadership, collaboration, enhanced culture and financial skills to Boardrooms.