Our Leadership Team
"In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principles, stand like a rock."
Thomas Jefferson
Partner Background
We are experienced Senior Executives who have worked for major corporations in a wide variety of industries and disciplines. We believe our real life experience working in companies like yours makes a big difference. We have sat where our clients now sit, we have faced the same challenges, run large departments and projects, and we know what works in the real world. We have seen the best and worst practices and environments in the largest corporations in the world. We have learned and have been inspired by the best and we have a deep desire to help our clients reach their full potential.
Doug Shurts - Managing Partner
Mr. Shurts manages Client Service and Practice Development for the Principles Group around Customer Relationship and Change & Integration Management. Doug has deep executive level leadership both in industry as a Senior Executive at AT&T as well as a practice lead for numerous Fortune 500 companies.
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Mike Tierney, Sr – Managing Partner
Mr. Tierney manages Client Service and Practice Development for the Principles Group focusing in Change & Integration Management. Mike, Sr has over 20 years experience as a senior executive in "Big Five" Consulting with Pricewaterhouse Cooper's Consulting and Deloitte & Touche in addition to seven years hands on operations management experience with "Fortune 500" manufacturing organizations.
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Global Medical Device manufacturer needed process and organization Change Leadership & Integration to manage SAP implementation across 3 continents and 40 international sites. PG helped enable a smooth transition to new SAP solution, eliminate business risk, and achieve operational benefits by utilizing a pragmatic change management approach that fully engaged key personnel throughout the process. -
Major global telecommunications company required revenue lift through better customer targeting and improved advertising to sales integration. PG started with a detailed database capability gap analysis, defined opportunity areas, identified significant revenue list opportunities and developed data opportunity prioritization model. -
A leading, global Consumer Products Company needed more value from their SAP platform. PG first established a way of managing SAP-related business change and benefits realization. By discovering key opportunities, PG improved the use of current production systems and manage- ment reporting by reducing costs and effort associated with 880 Excel reports, 42,000 hrs/year of manual report maintenance, & 172,000 emails/year. -
For a major Wine and Spirits Importer and Distributor, PG developed and delivered process improvements and established technologies enabling sales growth through global supply chain expansion into newly acquired brands. Additional objective to improve operational efficiencies, optimize inventory levels and minimize transportation costs were achieved as well.