Elaine Dillon Biggs

Elaine Biggs is a renowned expert in Transformation Management, Enterprise Project Management, Business Excellence, Lean, Quality, Operational Excellence, and Continuous Improvement. With a career spanning across various industries, including technology, electronic goods, shared services, consumer-packaged goods, market research, media, telecommunications, food manufacturing, and mining, she has excelled in her roles ranging from an individual contributor, leader of small teams to an executive managing large global teams. Elaine has saved companies over $483 million during her career and possesses valuable key skillsets. These skillsets include her ability to architect strategic visions and connected roadmaps that accelerate the delivery of business value, digitization of customer experience, automation of processes, and optimization of the product management commercialization process. Elaine champions and owns operational, financial, and quality delivery while preemptively mitigating business risk. She fosters and reinforces a culture of project management and lean excellence while building strong relationships with customers, sponsors, suppliers, and team members. Her passions include developing, coaching, mentoring, and teaching others new ways of working through the application of change management principles, operational excellence, lean, and project management through servant leadership. Elaine is the recipient of several accolades, including the CEO Quality Award, CEO Leadership Award, and the Top Performer Award for iSixSigma Quality Lead. Elaine holds a Master's Degree in Statistics and Operations Management from the Illinois Institute of Technology, an MBA in Finance, International Business, and Economics from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business, and a Bachelor's Degree in Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.