Anna Finigan

Responsible for building the consulting line of business from the ground up; from defining the strategy, goals and financial objectives to establishing the business processes and operations needed to achieve the ambitious goals. 

Lead a team of internal employees and contracted consultants to deliver high quality, meaningful results to each client; on time and on budget.

Key achievements with clients include:

• Successful $MM merger of two prominent non-profit organizations and their respective Boards of Directors; mediating contentious issues and facilitating change management efforts with leaders and staff.
• Implementation of streamlined workflow process and tools address gaps in operations and communications for commercial construction company.
• Operational feasibility assessment and future state process design work for innovative market offering in healthcare industry.

Led a 3-day strategic planning meeting of 15 executive leaders that resulted in the identification of over 35 new best practices. 

Streamlined an outdated weekly process from 33 hours to 6 hours. 

Developed a groundbreaking scorecard for executive team as a revenue prediction tool. 

Reported directly to the CIO and Chief Sales Officer of a Fortune 500 company. 

Maintains the acumen to handle complex situations and multiple responsibilities, simultaneously mixing long term project goals with the immediacy of operational demands. 

Highly experienced with  process design and organizational design.

Beat a $4M cost reduction target by eliminating $6.5M in Operational expenses.

Exceptional at change management; led the strategic planning, coordination and documentation of a 50% staff reduction from 800 people to 400, saving $12.5M, and another saving an additional $4.7M. 

Redistributed 1,200 accounts to 45 Sales Reps from an enterprise to a regional model. Also reduced contract queue 240% and unsigned contracts by 82%.

Built a workshop that improved profits by $2M within 4 months. 

Identified non-value added time and slashed it in half for entire business area. 

Developed a proven reputation of leading complex programs while concurrently managing operations and budgets, using metrics to drive results.

Worked successfully with a 50% cut in communications budget impacting 40M+ subscribers.

Managed budgets up to $80M with projects up to $95M.

Led teams up to 50 in matrix environment, with up to 20 direct and indirect reports, including management level.

Lead Customer Proprietary Network Info (CPNI) Project with Sprint legal team to comply with FCC regulations; accomplished CPNI compliance in less than 6 months for the enterprise project, meeting FCC compliance timeline. 

Fostered teamwork and held immense team loyalty, even with remote staff. Mentored, coached and trained multiple team members into management roles, up to Director level. 

Identified a niche market to resell obsolete product to recoup $3M+.

Developed Day 1 Consumer Sales Merger Playbook. Used by 100K+ Sprint/Nextel Sales teams and 20+ indirect locations to guide employees through the early days of the newly merged Sprint/ Nextel organization, resolving hundreds of customer services issues in one week.

Our mission
Sleepyhead Beds improves the quality of life for children and their families by providing clean, recycled beds and bedding. And we contribute to the health and environment of our community by sanitizing beds and keeping them out of landfills.

What we do
Since 2010, Sleepyhead Beds has delivered over 5000 donated, gently used, and recycled beds to Kansas City metro area children in need of a comfortable place to sleep. That has given Kansas City children over 3 million restful nights of sleep! These beds are recycled and delivered free of charge to families in need. We are the only organization in the Kansas City who is focused solely on this mission.

Dual Major in Business Management and Logistics