An executive operator, integrator, and business leader with a career spanning organizational leadership, operations, sales, technology, communications, and growth.
My work has consistently centered on a common challenge: helping organizations translate vision into execution.
Across entrepreneurial businesses and complex nonprofit organizations, I have led teams, built operational systems, managed multimillion-dollar budgets, implemented technology, overseen facilities and capital projects, developed growth strategies, and helped leadership teams establish greater clarity and accountability.
Earlier in my career, I helped build and scale businesses in the furniture and home furnishings industry, ultimately working with many of the country’s best-known retail brands. Through Boulevard Design Group, I combined business development, product strategy, brand positioning, and executive leadership to generate millions of dollars in new revenue for clients and partners.
Later, I brought that entrepreneurial operating experience into complex multi-site non-profit organizations, leading functions spanning finance, human resources, facilities, technology, security, communications, vendor management, and organizational operations.
What connects those experiences is not an industry or job title.
It is the ability to walk into complexity, understand how the pieces fit together, identify what matters most, and create the systems and accountability necessary to move an organization forward.
Today, I’m focused particularly on opportunities to serve founders, CEOs, executive teams, boards, and mission-driven organizations as an executive operator, Chief of Staff, COO, Integrator, or strategic advisor.
Before trying to change an organization, I want to understand it—its people, its history, its strengths, its frustrations, and what its leaders are trying to accomplish.
From there, I tend to ask a lot of questions, connect things that may initially appear unrelated, and look for practical ways to make the organization work better.
I have found that sustainable results rarely come from a single brilliant idea. They come from good people who understand where they are going, know what they own, trust one another, and have systems that help them succeed.
That is the kind of organization I enjoy helping build.
Eddie Schroder 