Jerroll Sanders—The Experience to Lead, Jerroll is a seasoned executive and business consultant with exceptional leadership abilities. She built a start-up firm into a multi-million dollar enterprise and has managed projects of enormous magnitude. She is a fierce advocate who launched ONUS, a national organization that is devoted to elevating the financial, social, and educational standing of African Americans and the disadvantaged of all races. Jerroll's ability to deliver results is proven! Come out and meet Jerroll. She is:

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ü      An innovative thinker, adept at leveraging technology to improve operations, productivity, and profitability:

• Spearheaded the massive Perpetual Inventory Record (PIR) Rewrite project.  Developed detailed systems specifications, managed systems testing, and ensured successful rollout.

• Implemented programming strategies that dramatically improved IRS notices.

ü      An effective leader, skilled at starting new businesses and accelerating the growth of existing companies:

• Propelled a start-up firm into multimillion-dollar enterprise by astutely overseeing all operations.

• Increased existing firm’s revenue by 300 percent in one year.

• Helped clients stabilize and strengthen failing operations.

ü   A diversity expert who convincingly articulates the relationship between diversity and profitability:

• Designed unique models that visually augment the meaning of concepts contained in training modules.

• Developed a business case for diversity that was broadly used by St. Louis companies.

• Helped customers launch and refine supplier diversity initiatives, streamline vendor databases, enhance vendor capacity and capability, and achieve greater return on investment (ROI) from diversity undertakings.

• Appeared on more than 40 radio and television stations nationwide discussing issues of diversity. Referenced in several national publications, including Black Enterprise.

• Served as a featured speaker at a diversity summit. The other featured speaker was Earvin “Magic” Johnson.

ü   An experienced communications strategist who knows how to leverage communications to achieve strategic business goals:

• Reengineered Internal Revenue Service's (IRS) Notice Redesign Process, producing the best notices in the history of IRS.

• Designed industry-leading seminars, including Sticks & Stones: The Power of Words and Actions (workplace diversity); Increasing M/WBE Capacity and Capability; Marketing Diversity Procurement; Reengineering the Procurement Process; Your Point, Well Taken; Measuring and Increasing ROI; Mentoring Magic; Marketing 101 for the M/WBE; and M/WBE Funding and Capital. Also developed other high-impact seminars that include Write to the Point; How to Develop, Manage, and Implement Effective Faith-Based Initiatives, and Media Savvy.

•  Produced documentation that creatively resolved a long-standing problem at a Fortune 500 Company.

• Conducted organizational audits and SWOTS (“Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities & Threats”) to help organizations refine communications and business strategies.

ü   A pacesetter and strategist who possesses the uncanny ability to develop innovative approaches and solutions that address tough problems:

• Introduced a cost-saving mechanical balancing routine, which led to $3 million annual savings.

• Tracked $200 million investment and managed monthly and annual perpetual inventory record (PIR)/general ledger reconciliation).

• Designed and implemented a re-evaluation program that became the model for other Bell Operating Companies (BOCs).

• Implemented the documentation and training components of a worldwide system implementation.

• Implemented integrated system that enabled firm to pass numerous government audits.

• Installed processes that ensured consistent, on-time delivery via project tracking and reporting.

 ü  Recipient of numerous awards and commendations in both a corporate and entrepreneurial capacity;

ü   Graduate of Cass Technical High School. Secured a Bachelor of Science degree in journalism/public relations, with minors in business, music (harp), and political science from Bowling Green State University. Attended Amos Tuck School Minority Business Executive Program at Dartmouth College. Have begun pursuit of MBA.