Biography

Colleen has provided strategic guidance to a diverse range of clients since 2003. She helps organizations enhance their operations and culture, improve strategic leadership and planning, reduce risk, and cultivate more effective governance. She works collaboratively with clients to understand their goals and objectives and define organizational and programmatic changes to better equip and position them to achieve those goals.

Colleen leads the firm’s Strategy & Operations Consulting Practice, overseeing strategic and management consulting, human capital and construction advisory, environmental, social, and governance (ESG) consulting, and public sector internal and performance auditing. She also serves as the consulting leader for the firm's Public Sector, Not-for-Profit, and Tribal industry group.

Selected Speaking Engagements

  • The Opportunity in ESG Consulting
    (Accounting Today Firm Growth Forum , May 2023)
  • Putting the “S” in ESG
    (Washington Society of CPAS (WSCPA), December 2022)
  • ESG Reporting & Assurance Panel
    (UC Berkeley Haas School of Business Annual Conference on Financial Reporting, June 2022)
  • People, Processes, and Technology: Challenges in a Remote Work Environment
    (Western Association of College and University Business Officers (WACUBO), April 2021)
  • How to Elevate Your Budget Process and Further Operational Goals
    (Oregon GFOA Conference, October 2021)
  • 21st Century Internal Audit
    (Transforming Local Government Conference, May 2020)
  • Reserve Policies and Practices
    (NACUBO Annual Conference , July 2019)
  • Strategic Budgeting for Boards
    (CalSAE Operations & Finance Summit, June 2019)
  • Hindsight is 20/20: Internal Controls and Risk Assessments
    (CalCPA Government Accounting and Auditing Conference, May 2019)

Professional Affiliations

  • Immediate Past Chair, Board of Trustees, Humanities Washington
  • Member, Association of Local Government Auditors
  • Member, Institute of Internal Auditors
  • Member, International City & County Management Association
  • Member, Project Management Institute
  • Member, Society for Corporate Governance

Education

  • BA, english and political science, University of Michigan
  • Certificate, diversity and inclusion, Cornell University
  • MS, public policy and management, Carnegie Mellon University

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