Carolyn Dolezal is an international public and private company President, CMO and CIO for professional services and high-tech firms. Her background includes over 10 years of board-level experience. Carolyn builds business by consistently driving positive results:  translating strategic direction into practical business processes while developing and mentoring talent.  She is well-experienced with large scale multi-billion  dollar operations, as well as small niche markets.

Carolyn has deep experience with in strategic planning and implementation, product management for professional services and software organizations, marketing, and information technology leadership.  She serves as an executive coach and mentor to high potential talent in business.

Carolyn helps companies solve their most complex problems by bringing a pragmatic approach to executable strategy, combining deep industry knowledge, business experience, analysis, and insight to help clients feel confident in a direction and their capability to achieve success.

These are the kinds of projects where Carolyn can add value:

• Facilitate strategy discussions to determine vision, positioning statement, ecosystem assessments, risk mitigation, and change management Provide quantitative and qualitative market research and social listening to validate product
• Define short-term and long-term product and service roadmaps and implementation
• Prepare organization structures, position descriptions and succession plans to provide right resources to support new business models and ongoing continuity for
• Serve on or assist boards of directors with governance issues, board preparedness, succession planning, and strategic direction.

Carolyn has a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Wisconsin – Oshkosh and her MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School at Northwestern University.   She regularly participates in ongoing executive development programs, particularly in change management, technology trends, and board governance.

Carolyn served as a Corporate Director for PCTEL (NASDAQ: PCTI; $100M) as the Compensation Committee Chair.  She currently serves as a mentor for Menttium, a corporate mentoring program that connects mentors and mentees to support leadership development and diversity in the global business community.  She is a board member and former chair for National Able Network, vice-chair of the St. Peter Foundation, and is a member of the Economic Club of Chicago and the Private Directors Association.