Veteran CEO Launches Leadership Consulting Firm In Chicago
JDR Growth Partners To Team with Leaders to Achieve Growth
CHICAGO, Oct. 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Veteran CEO Jude Rake today announced the launch of JDR Growth Partners in Chicago, providing a unique leadership consulting firm that helps business leaders drive profitable growth by bridging strategy into improved execution. JDR believes the bridge to growth is built through talent and culture.
JDR Growth Partners teams with leaders to develop and execute a strategic direction that fuels innovation, high-performance teaming, breakthrough marketing campaigns, and improved sales force execution. The firm leverages proven processes to help leaders elevate the commitment and performance of the people they lead.
"Leaders dedicate most of their time to fighting the fires threatening their organization, and too often they lose sight of the difference-makers they must champion to achieve the full potential of their organization," said Mr. Rake. "They personally must be the Chief Talent Officer of their organization, and we relish teaming with them to leverage their talent and culture into improved execution of a more focused strategy."
JDR Growth Partners has adapted CPG best practices learned at world class companies to more challenging business situations that require higher velocity from fewer resources. To help clients achieve transformational growth, JDR Growth Partners has developed a consumer-driven methodology that has been optimized to strike the right balance between strategic discipline and roll-up-your-sleeves action. The result is a nimbler CPG approach that focuses resources where they add the most value, shuns unnecessary bureaucracy, and elevates leadership development and talent management to the top of the priority list.
"We tailor our approach to the unique strengths of the leader's company," said Rake. "We are respectful of the core values that contributed to our client's success, and we help them articulate and execute an inspiring plan for the future when cultural renovation is necessary. Ultimately, we want our clients to thrive on a performance-based culture of innovation that keeps their core values and their consumers at the center of everything they do."
About Jude Rake:
Jude Rake is a proven leader with a 28 year track record of building businesses to create economic value, from well known consumer packaged goods companies such as The Clorox Company, PepsiCo, and SC Johnson, Before founding JDR Growth Partners, Mr. Rake was CEO at ETA hand2mind, Papyrus-Recycled Greetings, and Recycled Paper Greetings. He also served as President and Chief Operating Officer at Fellowes. In each of these roles Mr. Rake built and led impressive leadership teams that fueled profitable growth and significant improvements in workforce engagement, commitment, and satisfaction.
About JDR Growth Partners
Founded in 2014, JDR Growth Partners works with businesses facing a broad range of challenges; from turnarounds to accelerating the growth of healthy businesses, from big companies to small companies, both public and privately held, for-profit and non-profit. Business leaders can learn more about the firm at http://jdrgrowthpartners.com.
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