Racheal Awe

Vice President & Chief of Staff – Office of the CEO at Canadian Tire Corporation, Schulich & Kellogg EMBA'17

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Innovative Business & IT Leader, with a valuable combination of industry and consulting expertise on an international scale.
Offering over 20 years of experience in delivering large scale enterprise programs/projects, driving business growth, developing and executing strategic plans, business process re-engineering, road-mapping, and change management within a broad range of industries including retail, financial services and oil & gas.
Articulate and direct communicator; strong collaborator with excellent relationship building skills and a deep understanding of organizational dynamics and business models and motivators.
Analytical, agile, and creative thinker, ingenious and innovative problem solver, with the self confidence required to initiate and drive large scale change.
Seasoned negotiator, driving choices and agreements between internal business and technology units, external bodies, vendors and service providers.

Key Success Factors
•Leads development of long term business and operational road maps to achieve the enterprise strategic target end state in a tactical prioritized approach and in the most cost effective way.
•Plans and orchestrates rigorous delivery excellence; offering innovative solutions to complex business and operational challenges and leverages data analytics and decisiveness to implement solutions, while addressing issues quickly, exceptional follow through and attention to details - thereby minimizing risks and maximizing performance.
•Builds high performance teams by positioning the right people in the right roles, coaching, team building, resolving conflicts and uniting people around common goals.
•Ensures accountability for high standards of quality which is reflected in clear assignments, measurable goals and identification of metrics to track individual and team performance.