ABOUT BETHANY HAWKINS
I'm a pattern finder and a dot connector. That's shown up in every seat I've sat in.
It started in my twenties, when I was dropped into a high-stakes cross-functional role before I fully understood what I was walking into. The pressure was real because the cost of getting it wrong was real.
That's where I learned what has shaped everything since: the hardest problems in a business rarely live inside one function. They live in the space between functions, where no one officially owns the connection.
I've spent the past 25+ years of my career in that space. Global enterprises. Founder-led and PE-backed businesses running lean and fast. For most of those years, I led high-stakes initiatives inside global enterprises as the leader accountable for delivery. Today, I bring that experience from the outside, as the perspective an accountable leader can't get from within their own organization. Both seats taught me things the other couldn't.
I don't leave ambiguity or open problems unresolved. I move toward clarity, and I build the fix alongside your own people, because a fix only lasts if your team can run it once I leave.
HOW I WORK
Whether I'm running an initiative directly or advising the person who is, my job is the same: see what's actually connected, what's not being asked, and what's quietly working against your own strategy.
Direct, practical, calm under pressure. I ask questions your team hasn't had time to ask, surface what's unclear, find the disconnects, and help you see the system you're too close to see on your own.
How involved I get depends on what the situation needs, from a single outside read to owning the initiative itself.