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John Short - CEO
W. John Short & Associates, LLC

Lea's years of experience in both the product driven front-end (design, Tech Design, PDM, PLM) and supply chain management (from production through in-store) for both retail and wholesale companies give her a unique understanding of the end-to-end processes necessary to succeed in our industry. Her experience and knowledge, coupled with her coaching, leadership development and people management skills,allow her to come into a business, quickly diagnose the issues, and effectively integrate herself into the management teams charged with taking the business to the next level.

Mark Burstein
Vice President, PLM Solutions

Lea has been instrumental in successful implementations of our PLM system at both wholesale and retail clients. Her extensive knowledge and understanding of the product development and supply chain processes has facilitated our software implementations. By helping our customers streamline their practices, she has enabled them to realize the full extent of PLM benefits.

Sarita Chawla
MCC, Founding Partner, Demeter Matrix Alliance
Faculty New Ventures West.

Lea's bright and strategic mind supports her Integral Coaching work by discerning what will support her clients as she designs customized programs for them. Her consulting and organizational experience enhances her working with corporate clients resulting in tangible and lasting change.

Roman Santiago Reyes
Vice President, Technical Development, A|X Armani Exchange

After many years of each department working independently on separate spreadsheets, our company finally took the next big step and purchased a PLM software that would encrease our efficiency, communication, and ability to analyze our business. The software company sent their corporate trainers to assist in the transition into using the new software but the management team left every training session completely stumped. As good as the information was that was being passed to us, we were unable to grasp the concepts and understand how to make it our own.

In comes Lea Macchiaroli and it was as if sight was given to the blind and hearing given to the deaf. From the first instant, she understood where we came from, our needs, and immediately bridged the gap between software and end user. More importantly, she walked us through our own product life cycle and led us to the understanding of just how powerful a tool we had just purchased. Coming up on a year later, the company continues to reap the benefits of Lea's intervention.

She is a powerful and effective communicator and a skilled businesswoman with a diverse experience that would make her a necessity to any company who wants to analyze their own business for the purposes of improvement.

Want to know what you're doing well? Get Lea. Want to know what you could be doing better? Call Lea. Want to know how your business could run better & more efficiently? Call Lea, just call Lea!

Amanda S. Piola
The Trunk Tradeshow

I started my apparel tradeshow business less than 1 year ago, and although they say the idea is the hard part, I found the execution has been even harder. I was recommended a business coach by a friend who knew someone that might help. Lea Macchiaroli has turned out to be the coach/ leader I need to re-organize and help me plan the future of my business. As a one woman show, I found myself overwhelmed with ideas and goals, with no real path for how to achieve them. In less than 2 months she has worked with me to organize and give much needed direction to my thoughts and ideas. Clearly helped me to identify opportunities to plan and grow my business. And is working to develop strategies along with a "how to" plan for execution. She has taken away the stress and useless time I was spending trying to figure out my next steps. My business and my future are much brighter with her guidance, coaching, and support. Thank you Lea!

Leslie Ritter
Chief People Officer, Skywire Software

I met Lea through the New Ventures West Coaching program. The program is an intensive year of study and self reflection. Through the well crafted training program, interactive study groups and mentoring provided by graduates, such as Lea, I was able to take my coaching and consulting business to a new level." "Lea helped me understand the concepts and how to apply them in real world executive coaching situations. Her experience and guidance along with the foundation New Ventures provided have made an incredible impact on all aspects of my life.

Helena Varrow
Program Manager, Cisco Systems, Inc., Denmark

As a pod mentor Lea kept our feet on the ground and her contagious energy carried us through when we ran out of steam.

Ron Beegle
Founding Partner, Goode Partners, LLC

We frequently look to Lea for not only assistance with due diligence, but also for developing merchandising and operational strategies, aligning and restructuring organizations, and engineering key work processes. Lea is wonderfully adept at managing change, which is absolutely essential considering the work she does. The impact of her work is tangible and measured in terms of lower costs, increased efficiencies, and increased speed to market.

Linda Heasley
CEO, The Limited

Lea has extensive experience with large and mid size retailers in Merchandising both vertically integrated as well as third party or branded. She also has wholesale experience all of which provides her a unique perspective relative to assortment planning, product development, production, and sourcing. She understands the subsequent interfaces with finance, marketing, planning, allocation, and ultimately stores. She is thoughtful and methodical as well as practical and has seen it all. She is capable of getting to the issues quickly and can get the teams to work through pushback and change abhorrence in a positive way. She is a good sounding board for the CEO who often hears too many silo'ed interpretations of how things must be.