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​LEADING THROUGH CHANGE

STRATEGY AND CONSULTING 

STARTUPS | DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION | MULTI-INDUSTRY

Leadership and Advisory Board

Our advisors and management consultants are subject matter experts. They provide guidance and input on matters of content, scope, and evolving issues common across business and technology verticals for our clients, partners, and professional audiences.


Established in 2001, we’ve built a firm uniquely equipped to help our clients make significant and lasting improvements to their performance and realize their most important goals. We take a consistent approach to quickly deliver the right team, with the right experience and expertise tailored to each client. We focus on the strategy, project management, digital transformation, custom healthcare solutions, infrastructure, operations and business application assessments  to accelerate your strategic initiatives by removing internal barriers, mobilize strategic partners and vendors to manage complexity corporate wide. We make you better, faster!

CAROL YVETTE THORNEY, MBA

ADVISORY BOARD

Founder & Chief Executive Officer, Thorney Advisors

Carol is an innovative, profit-oriented executive with demonstrated success in increasing revenues, market share, and earnings, achieving cost reductions and improving client satisfaction.


An Executive Advisor with over 20 years enabling healthcare, finance, retail, BPO and IT organizations to drive more seamless customer experience through reimagined business models that also drive internal productivity and culture transformation that supports industry and government benchmarks. 


A champion of driving Agile and Lean enterprise strategy with a deep understanding of business and technology domains globally with significant senior executive interactions to drive profitable growth.


Carol is an accomplished graduate and active alumni of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, oldest technological research university in the U.S., and embodies the vision, “Why not change the world?” which is not just a tagline; it is our mission.


Specialty

Executive Advisor | Healthcare | Population Health | Start Up Commercialization | Strategy & Growth | Digital Transformation | Change Management | Coaching & Training


Industry

Banking | Financial Services | Insurance | FinTech, Technology | Healthcare Payer & Provider |  Telehealth | Life Sciences | Manufacturing | Government

MICHAEL M THORNEY, B.S.

ADVISORY BOARD

Managing Partner, TA Solutions Global

Michael is a U.S. Airforce veteran who began his corporate career at Fortune 500 Companies with a background in Business Process Improvement, Quality Assurance, Supply Chain Management, Manufacturing, and Lean Manufacturing. With lessons learned from his early career, Michael was successful in conducting and managing multiple concurrent Productivity Improvement Projects, Lean Manufacturing and ISO Certification Implementation and Audits.

 

Building on his business management experience, Michael began to offer training to the management system standards registration assessment to companies seeking certification and it was through these activities that Michael began his association with NQA. While working with NQA, Michael’s initially focused on assessing Quality Systems, now, taking advantage of past experience, Environmental Management, Occupational Health & Safety and R2:2013 have been added to his portfolio of activities.   Successful development and implementation of management systems in multiple Industries as a consultant.

 

 

 

 

 

Specialty

Lead Auditor/Assessor | ISO 14001 Environmental | R2: 2013 Responsible Recycling | ISO 45001 Health & Safety | ISO 9001 Quality 

 

Industry

Automotive | Energy | Oil & Gas | Health Care | Manufacturing | Sewn Products/ Garment | Mining | Government | Public Sector

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BEVERLY SMITH, MBB, Ph.D.

ADVISORY BOARD

Chief Operating Officer, Vector International

Beverly is a highly skilled Operational Excellence Leader with expertise in Organizational Transformation, Business Process Improvement, New Product Development, New Product Innovation, Strategy Formulation, Product Portfolio Management, Mathematical Modeling and Optimization.

 

A New Product Development and Process Improvement expert with over 20 years experience in leading complex cross-functional projects that delivered top line growth and improved profitability. Successfully led global initiatives in R&D, manufacturing and transactional process improvement while based in North America and Europe as Head of Capability Development , Global Science Technology & Commercialization at Merck Manufacturing; and accountability in maintaining the alignment of Lean Six Sigma for seamless execution of plans and strategies across the technology (R&D) function and the Honeywell Electronics Materials (HEM) business enterprise.

 

Beverly is a seasoned Lean Six Sigma expert and a Honeywell certified Six Sigma Master Black Belt since 2004.

 

Specialty

Operational Excellence | Lean Six Sigma | Strategy Formulation 

 

 

Industry

Life Sciences | Manufacturing | Government | Academic

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ANDRÉA HAWKINS, M.S.

ADVISORY BOARD

Partner, The Clarion Group, Ltd.

Andréa is a trusted advisor to senior executives within various industry verticals helping them develop and implement innovation growth strategies through an alignment of understanding their customer, establishing the right organizational capability and creating a culture climate where individuals can effectively collaborate to achieve the goals of the organization. 


Diverse experiences in operational excellence facilitates an ability to analyze, blueprint and develop innovative strategy from concept or service inception to delivery -- effectively and efficiently. 


A Change Leader skilled at evolving organizations through collaboration and trusted partner relationships.








Specialty

Strategic Planning | Executive Advisor | Transformation | Risk Management


Industry

Healthcare | Retail | Hospitality | Employee Relations | Training | Change Management


ALEXANDRA CHALIF, MS, MP

ADVISORY BOARD

Advisory Board, International Hypnosis Research Institute

Alexandra Chalif a psychotherapist and hypnotherapist with a Masters in Psychology as well is a Master Practitioner in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) and holds multiple certifications in Hypnosis. The last seven years she has been studying at Harvard Medical Mind-Body Institute.


In 1991, Alexandra Chalif founded the AARW (Alliance of American and Russian Women Inc.) and served as its President through 2000  helping  2000+ women start businesses, and is affiliated with International Women Presidents Organization (WPO), a non-profit  organization with a diverse group of entrepreneurial women presidents. 


In 2009, she joined the Western Connecticut Health System in their Integrative Medicine Department, and with surgeon Courtney Chambers,  MD created a program focused on better outcome for 4000+ patients working with a hypnotherapist  before and during surgery. These protocols were successfully  implemented at Columbia-Presbyterian, Yale, St. Francis at Hartford. Chalif  maintains a private practice in Washington, CT.


Specialty

Women's Health | Psychotherapy | Hypnotherapy | Intervention & Recovery


Industry

Healthcare Provider - Hospital & Wellness

JENIFER SIMSON, MBA

ADVISORY BOARD

President and Founder

Hartt and Mind Market Research

Jenifer Hartt specializes in uncovering the motivations, attitudes, and emotions that drive behavior. She founded Hartt and Mind Market Research, a research consultancy, in 2011. She has interviewed thousands of people from CEOs and physicians to teenagers and drunk drivers. Jenifer also serves as a managing editor of QRCA’s award winning magazine, VIEWS.


Jen leads Hartt and Mind Market Research which is pure qualitative with an emphasis on projectives and creative techniques, offers a fast, innovative process integrating research & client brainstorming to develop and test new concepts, and creative problem solving facilitation. Under Jen's leadership, the company has a deep commitment to pharma and healthcare, especially in the area of mental health issues. The team also works extensively in the financial services industry with ultra-high net worth and business audiences. 


From creative projective exercises that offer intimate glimpses into respondents’ motivations to surveys that generate high-impact, projectable findings, Hartt and Mind is committed to helping organizations understand their markets so that they make better decisions.


Specialty

Market Research | Focus Groups | Strategy Planning | Customer Segmentation


Industry

Financial Services | Marketing

Specialties

  • Startup Business Coaching

  • AI and Telehealth Product Design

  • Cost & CAPEX Focus Management

  • Product Development

  • Digital Transformation

  • Leveraging Emerging Technologies

  • Population Health 

Specialties (continued)

  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • High Available, High-ROI Systems
  • Decision Support & Analytics
  • Maximizing Vendor Relations & Negotiations
  • ROI-Focused Program & Projects
  • Spearheading Automated Solutions
  • Proposal Development (RFI, RFP etc.)
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