Leadership Team

Your Business Turnaround Partner.

REINVENTION’s consulting team includes business turnaround thought leaders — former Fortune 500 executives and entrepreneurs from multiple industries who have been quoted in academic journals and major media outlets including WSJ, Fortune, Retail Leader, and INC.

Our senior consultants have MBAs and decades of global experience working with top-tier consulting firms and corporations. Our team also includes agile innovators who took nontraditional career paths. Together, we’re the change agents your company needs. We work 100% remotely across time zones.

Kirsten OsolindCHIEF BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION STRATEGIST: Kirsten Osolind

Practice Specialties: Business Reinvention, Business Turnarounds, Change Management, Business Strategy, M&A Integration,  Organizational Design, Retail, CPG, Software, Enterprise Technology Implementation

Osolind is an “agent of change” who helps Clients lead business turnarounds, spark digital transformation, manage merger integration, navigate executive team transitions, and improve organizational health. She specializes in turning challenges into strategic advantages.

During her career, Osolind has facilitated 100+ Change Readiness and Innovation Incubation Labs for Clients, identifying growth opportunities based on quantitative and qualitative research insights, creative ideation, context shifting, and narrative/rapid prototyping. She has planned and championed 50+ new product/venture launches for $1 million – $100 billion enterprises.

A former Fortune 100 executive, Osolind previously led global strategy for four of the World’s Most Innovative Global Companies, according to Forbes Magazine: Whole Foods Market, General Mills, The Coca-Cola Company, and P&G. She managed enterprise-wide change management initiatives, post-merger brand integration activities, corporate/brand P&Ls, collaborative teams, new product/service commercialization, multi-million dollar marketing budgets, and lean startup campaigns.

A Duke MBA with an undergraduate degree in Organizational Behavior and former Entrepreneur Magazine columnist, Osolind has been a CONNECT San Diego Entrepreneur in Residence, a Bellevue University advisory board member, and co-founder / board adviser of Astroprint™ (a 500 Startups 3D printing SaaS company). She has previously chaired or served on numerous national/local boards including the Economic Club of Chicago, NAWBO’s National Board, NAWBO Chicago, YWCA Chicago, and the Springboard Enterprises Midwest Venture Forum. She’s been quoted or noted in Bloomberg/BusinessWeek, WSJ, Fortune, Washington Post, INC., Training Magazine, Retail Leader, AdAge, elite Academic Journals, and hundreds of U.S. newspapers.

  • Trained/certified in PROSCI, ADKAR, Stage Gate, Agile, Lean Startup and Design Thinking
  • Wealth and Finance International™ Consultancy Elite Awards Winner (“Most Innovative Strategy Consulting Firm”)
  • Corporate Vision™ Consultancy Awards Winner (“Most Innovative Business Strategy Firm”)
  • iMedia Agency Awards finalist (“Best Agency for Performance Marketing”)
  • San Diego Magazine Women Who Move the City Honoree
  • Stevie Awards for Women in Business Finalist
Advice from Ms. Osolind:
“Companies — and human beings — are instinctively good at generating ideas. Their greatest weakness? Execution. Implementation is hard — and the pressure to execute flawlessly is unprecedented.”

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