Lori Preston consults with her clients around the question: "What is the fastest path to results?" Lori brings her knowledge of business, finance, economics, organizations, and people to identify solutions that focus on people and the system they live in.

Working in a participatory manner with leadership and their performers, customized consulting focuses on 2 parallel efforts:
1) The accelerated path to results AND
2) The activities that will yield sustainability of those results.

Organizational results are found through people when the barriers and/or appropriate performance amplifiers are found. The topics addressed to uncover the right solution are:

Strategy:

• Business strategy translated into individual action
• People strategy created to execute the business strategy
• People, processes, and tools aligned with business strategy
• Cross-organizational strategies

Processes:

• Efficiency and effectiveness of processes
• Appropriate and powerful use of processes
• Process reality checks: tools, time, money, talent
• Cross-organizational processes optimized
• Process metrics
• Accelerated learning and improvement cycles

People:

• Capability and willingness of individuals, teams, organizations
• Training and development initiatives, plans, and execution
• Rewards, incentives, and consequences
• Interactions: collaboration,conversation, hand-offs, competition, cooperation, colluding, decision making, problem solving
• Tools: effectiveness, efficiency, and use
• Communication: effectiveness, tools, timeliness, high impact
• Performance Metrics for individuals, teams, and organizations
• Performance feedback: mechanisms, methods, processes, and tools
• Roles and responsibilities

Surrounding Environment:

• Leadership and management effectiveness
• Culture
• Technology and tools
• Organizational structure
• Individual performance management and the HR environment

Once the intervention alternatives are presented and chosen, Lori provides the appropriate mix of her skills to design, build, deliver, and measure interventions.

Whether the intervention is perceived as a tweak or a wholesale shift for the organization, Lori appropriately applies the effective amount of change management and project management to speed the results for the client.

Lori specializes in large organizations and the growth side of a business.

Lori brings both academic and business experience to the client while solving performance issues. Her academic background is a Masters in Organizational Development from Pepperdine University with a research emphasis on Business Strategy while her undergraduate degrees ground her in Economics (BBA) and Finance (BBA). The academic knowledge is strengthened with 20 years experience helping corporate clients succeed.

Lori's clients have succeeded in the following industries:

• Information Technology services
• Software
• Manufacturing
• Publishing
• Consulting Firms
• Pharmaceuticals
• Telecommunications
• Retailers
• Computer Hardware Manufacturers
• Insurance
• Suppliers