Driving Growth, Innovation, and Organizational Performance


Shawn T. Coyne is a world-class marketing and strategy consultant with a Northwestern MBA and a proven track record of driving growth, innovation and improved organizational performance in both B2C and B2B settings, achieved via over 30 years of operating and consulting experience at Procter & Gamble, McKinsey & Company, and a handful of high-performing smaller companies and consulting firms including two pioneering start-ups.
Shawn has operated businesses and consulted for C-level clients in a variety of industries including consumer goods and services, retail, quick service dining, higher education, telecommunications, banking, consumer finance, publishing, and sports management, among others.
Shawn tailors every consulting project to your unique needs -- whether you're leading a start-up, a mid-size company, or a multi-billion-dollar business; whether you're striving to develop a long-term business strategy, create new product ideas, improve your operations, build your organization's capabilities, or identify cost savings; and whether your situation requires large-scale, public effort or a small-scale, behind-the-scenes effort.
Shawn is the co-author of the critically-acclaimed book on innovation, “Brainsteering: A Better Approach to Breakthrough Ideas” (HarperCollins, 2011). In addition, he has authored or co-authored articles for the Harvard Business Review, McKinsey Quarterly, BusinessWeek.com, MWorld, Executive Journal, and Chief Executive magazine, and has been featured or quoted in such media outlets as the Wall St. Journal, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Economic Times, ABC News.com, CNN.com, Fortune.com, Fox Business News, and over 50 others.
Shawn holds a BA with honors from Vanderbilt University, and an MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
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