Veena Puri
Areas of Expertise
- Organizational Transformation and Business Turnaround
- Change Management and Communications for large-scale projects
- Agile Transformation (Courses completed: SAFe for Teams, SAFe for PM/PO)
- Leadership Development, Training and Facilitation
- Strategic Planning
- Stakeholder Engagement and Management
- Program Management
- Organization Design and Development
- Process Development & Implementation
- Relationship Management
- Executive Coaching
Education
- M.B.A Marketing & Strategic Planning, Katz Graduate School of Business, University of Pittsburgh
- B.A., Business Administration, King College
Work Experience
- Program Lead, Blankenship Change Consulting
- Change Management and Organization Development Consulting
- SVP, Food & Nutrition Services K-12, Aramark/RVP Long John Silvers (Yum Brands)
- 4 years executive leadership, general management, leadership development, operations turnarounds, and organizational development for large scale distributed services businesses
- National Director, Strategic Business Initiatives/Multi-Brand Development, Yum Brands
- 6 years new concept development, sales, franchising/licensing and strategic business development
- Manager Operations Services/Area Manager, Pizza Hut
- 4 years field operations and corporate operations services, project management, process design, leading cross-functional teams, turning around under-performing businesses