Caroline Reed

Ph.D. Candidate, Business Psychology | Enterprise Operating Model & Transformation Advisor | Corporate Creative Operations & Resource Governance | Accredited G-Cologist Practitioner | ConCISE Fellow

Smyrna, Georgia, United States

About

I am an Enterprise Transformation and Organizational Design consultant with more than 25 years of experience leading large-scale operating model and governance redesign across global brands including Samsung, Dunkin’, Orangetheory Fitness, and The Coca-Cola Company. My work focuses on aligning strategy, structure, and execution within complex, matrixed organizations. I specialize in enterprise change management (ECM), operating model design, workflow optimization, and cross-functional alignment that improves speed, accountability, and measurable business performance. Across my career, I have led vendor governance strategy, restructured creative and marketing operations, implemented global process standards, and delivered sustained cost efficiencies while preserving brand and operational integrity. As an Accredited G-Cologist Practitioner, I integrate GC Index® insights into leadership and team-impact strategies, helping organizations understand how individual contribution drives collective performance. I am currently a Ph.D. candidate in Business Psychology, where my research extends my systems-level work into the behavioral domain, examining how organizational design and communication influence talent systems and performance outcomes. I integrate evidence-based research with executive practice to support sustainable enterprise transformation. Open to remote consulting and contract engagements focused on enterprise transformation, operating model redesign, and organizational effectiveness. Core Areas: • Enterprise Transformation • Organizational Design & Operating Model Redesign • Enterprise Change Management (ECM) • Governance & Vendor Strategy • Business Process Optimization • Cross-Functional Alignment

Experience

  • Business Strategy Lead at Gilbert Creative
    Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 10 mos

    Lead strategic initiatives to enhance organizational performance through process optimization, creative workflow design, and business-transformation partnerships. Support executive leadership in growth strategy, client relations, and team alignment across marketing and production operations.

  • Principal Consultant | Organizational Design, Change Management & Process Optimization at CREED Consulting Services
    Oct 2015 - Present · 10 yrs 10 mos

    Principal Consultant specializing in organizational design, change management, and process optimization, with deep experience in marketing, advertising, and creative operations. Lead transformation and workflow-redesign projects for global brands including Samsung, Dunkin’, OrangeTheory Fitness, and California Pizza Kitchen. • Directed advertising-operations transformation for Samsung, achieving $22.2M in savings through process optimization and vendor consolidation. • Partnered with MurphyCobb & Associates (SharkNinja Project) to develop AI-enabled workflow and governance models that met global productivity targets. • Standardized creative-asset and approval systems for Dunkin’, Orangetheory Fitness, and California Pizza Kitchen, improving speed-to-market 30 % and enhancing brand consistency. • Advise executive teams on operating-model design, staffing alignment, and change-readiness strategies connecting creative innovation to business results. • Accredited G-Cologist Practitioner – apply GC Index® frameworks to assess leadership impact and team collaboration dynamics within client engagements. • Guided sourcing and vendor-transition initiatives for client organizations, aligning internal marketing and creative teams with external production and technology partners to support scalability, innovation and productivity.

  • Advertising Operations Consultant | Global Production & Agency Management at Samsung Electronics
    Aug 2015 - Feb 2022 · 6 yrs 7 mos

    Served as lead consultant to Samsung Electronics headquarters in Korea, marketing division, directing advertising-operations strategy and vendor governance across APAC and North America. • Acted as primary liaison between Samsung HQ and global advertising agencies to align production standards, budgets, and brand quality. • Designed and implemented end-to-end production-workflow models connecting internal marketing teams and agency partners, improving delivery transparency, speed, and operational consistency. • Built and managed Samsung’s Preferred Production Partner Program, establishing approved vendor rosters for production companies, directors, editors, VFX, music, color, and talent agencies. • Negotiated production costs with ad agencies and third-party vendors, generating more than $22.2M in cumulative cost savings over seven years and sustaining an average 15% annual reduction through disciplined vendor management and rate optimization. • Authored the Samsung Preferred Production Partner Playbook, defining standardized processes, rate structures, and execution timelines adopted globally by agency partners.

  • The Coca-Cola Company ()
    • Group Director, Marketing Productivity
      Sep 2013 - May 2015 · 1 yr 9 mos

      • Directed marketing-operations strategy and organizational-design initiatives to improve collaboration, efficiency, and ROI across the North America Business Unit. • Oversaw campaign planning, budget allocation, and talent alignment for marketing operations, optimizing resources across headquarters and regional teams. • • Led an agency-consolidation initiative that reduced the number of regional creative agencies from 109 to 30, delivering $2.5M in annual fee savings and increasing creative quality and consistency. • Spearheaded project-tracking and automated-approval systems that shortened campaign delivery timelines by 25% and improved visibility into performance metrics. • Unified campaign planning, financial reporting, and production oversight into a single enterprise platform, streamlining decision-making and accountability. • Partnered with procurement, finance, and marketing leadership to establish new vendor-governance and performance-measurement frameworks that sustained long-term cost efficiencies.

    • Group Director, Multi-Media Production
      Jul 2011 - Sep 2013 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      Oversaw a cross-functional organization of more than 50 team members spanning in-house creative, broadcast, digital, print, packaging, design, retail, national/local ad trafficking, and talent-management operations. Accountable for a $20M budget, staffing, and overall creative-production performance, delivering annual third-party production-vendor savings of 10–15% through process standardization and contract optimization. • Standardized production processes across TV, print, radio, OOH, and online, reducing agency fees by 40% and achieving measurable cost efficiencies. • Launched an integrated workflow model aligning cross-functional teams by project layer, increasing packaging-delivery speed 40% and reducing overruns 30%. • Merged two departments into one cohesive team, improving speed to market 43% and establishing a 33% annual savings benchmark. Sourcing, Outsourcing & Workforce Realignment • Directed ongoing restructuring to balance FTE and freelance resources; evaluated, selected, and onboarded external production partners to meet high-volume demand. • Designed and implemented an automated project-management and time-tracking platform with an outsourced technology vendor; remains in use company-wide. Creative Asset Deployment & Brand Governance • Streamlined creative-asset deployment between Coca-Cola headquarters, bottlers, regional marketing teams, and customers, improving delivery speed and visibility. • Established national-to-local asset-management protocols that reduced duplication and creative-production costs by 40% while maintaining brand integrity. • Oversaw governance for all creative materials deployed across the U.S., ensuring compliance with brand standards and alignment between corporate and regional campaigns. • Partnered with procurement and finance to monitor creative-adaptation budgets and verify ROI on regional activations.

    • Director, Broadcast Production & Emerging Media
      May 2008 - Jul 2011 · 3 yrs 3 mos

      Directed broadcast and emerging-media production across global campaigns, expanding into digital and social platforms to modernize storytelling and enhance consumer engagement. • Implemented a vendor-integration strategy that reduced agency fees by 60% and increased overall workflow efficiency by 50%. • Championed adoption of new-media and cross-channel production approaches that improved brand responsiveness and market relevance. • Partnered with marketing, IT, and procurement teams to align creative operations with enterprise cost and quality objectives. • Managed the reorganization and outsourcing of creative-production functions, evaluating vendor capabilities and redeploying resources to optimize cost and delivery speed. • Provided leadership across multidisciplinary teams, ensuring creative integrity and alignment between brand objectives, technical delivery, and production execution.