About Us
Gwen Walsh has built a career creating and implementing business and technology solutions that redefine the industry standards for both Fortune 100 corporations and entrepreneurial organizations. With over 25 years of experience in leadership development and organizational transformation, Ms. Walsh, founder of TechEdge LLC, helps her clients create and sustain collaborative, high performing and execution-based cultures focused on results delivery and performance target attainment. Ms. Walsh has achieved professional recognition for her ability to successfully shape and instill leadership competencies and behaviors, increase profitability and competitive advantage while optimizing human capital investments. Her approach is unique and powerful in that she is able to successfully leverage and distill proven concepts, methods, techniques and tools into real-world, practical, “right fit” and cost effective solutions for her clients – all with a keen eye on meeting each organization’s unique needs and challenges. As a business solution innovator, creator and developer, Ms. Walsh’s leadership and organizational effectiveness flagship programs include: Accelerated Leadership Assessment & Development, Accelerated Diagnostics & Transformation, Collaboration in Action, Accelerated Business Needs Assessment and Leadership & Transformation Advisor.
Prior to establishing Ms. Walsh’s consulting company, she served as Chief Information Officer and Partner for Christian & Timbers, directing the development and execution of their global Technology Strategy for the 10th largest executive search firm in the United States (15th internationally). Prior to that, she served as a Vice President/Division Manager with KeyCorp (Fortune 500, national), where she garnered a breadth of experience through rotation assignments in application development, technology operations and client relationship management and earned several Achievement of Excellence awards. Selected as a high potential leader, her unique abilities became evident as she swiftly and consistently created high performing organizations and teams that delivered successful business outcomes, strengthened bottom line results, attained people optimization and cost efficiency targets while providing exceptional customer service to her constituents. Ms. Walsh also led a staff of professionals as Director of Information Services with Medical Mutual, providing technology innovation to the healthcare industry. She began her career in General Motors Management Training Program.
Ms. Walsh holds a B.S. in Business Administration from John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio; participates in the Weatherhead Leadership Affiliate Program of Case Western Reserve University; coaches C-level executives; provides guest speaker services; counsels undergraduate students on career options and professional development; continues to develop new programs designed to help her clients achieve their true potential; and serves in an advisory capacity to a Northeastern Ohio non-profit organization focused on providing young professionals, including up-and-coming leaders, with coaching and development programs plus networking, philanthropic and social opportunities.
Kate Brown, Consulting Partner
Kate W. Brown is a consulting partner with TechEdge LLC. With over 25 years of Information Technology experience, Kate has extensive leadership and technical capabilities in the areas of organizational transformation, strategy implementation, leadership development, talent management, project management, vendor relationship management, application and ecommerce systems development and business intelligence based decision making.
Prior to becoming a consulting partner at TechEdge, Kate served in a variety of executive and leadership capacities at Oriental Trading Company (Nebraska), Best Buy Corporate (Minnesota), and The Hartford Courant (Connecticut). As a results-driven leader with envisioning and organizational development expertise, Kate has a proven track record in implementing complex multi-million dollar initiatives (growth, revenue and competitive advantage based) and in building durable high-performance organizations and collaborative cultures that deliver exceptional customer service and bottom line results while maintaining a keen eye on resource optimization.
Ms. Brown holds a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin – Madison; a Masters in Management Information Systems from Bellevue University; extensive educational background in Finance, Accounting, and Supply Chain Management; received a CIO Pocket MBA from Boston University; graduated from the ICAN Influence leadership program and continues to be involved with this national leadership organization; provides guest speaker services; continually strives to bring innovative, attainable and sustainable solutions to her customers; dedicated to assisting professionals with developing their leadership capabilities; passionate about designing programs and development plans that build high performing teams to deliver both organizational and operational excellence.
Scott Simpson, Consulting Partner
Scott Simpson is a consulting partner at TechEdge LLC. Scott has over 30 years of experience building and leading diverse, high performing, global business, product development and manufacturing teams. His understanding of effective team dynamics provides a key dimension for transforming and improving organizations. Scott energizes teams to find robust, practical, “real world” solutions to business and technical problems. His hands on approach and commitment to structured, systematic analysis and thinking enables him to quickly engage in effective business and technical problem solving.
Scott holds a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio and a Masters in Business Administration from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
OUR PEOPLE AND PARTNERS
TechEdge’s partners, representatives and affiliates have continued to deliver successful solutions, results and value because we consistently:
- Draw upon our breadth and depth of knowledge, experiences and capabilities to accurately diagnose and triage each client scenario
- Team with our clients to pre-define their success criteria, co-develop solid engagement plans and customize ’right fit’ solutions
- Tackle the ‘stickier’ human behavior aspects that can derail momentum and outcomes
- Listen to our clients’ questions, issues and concerns to ensure that we understand and account for their organization’s nuances
- Communicate to ensure that all key stakeholders are moving in the right direction at the right time
- Construct impactful deliverables that drive performance sustainability into our clients’ cultures
- Work side-by-side with our clients as we help them execute their roadmap to success!