Jeff Swanson is an experienced leader in large international businesses as well as an entrepreneur currently owning two businesses. Jeff developed his strategic and action-oriented approach to business while working with world renowned brands including Target, Victoria’s Secret, Payless ShoeSource and Eddie Bauer.

At these legendary companies and others he successfully:

• Led and revitalized interdisciplinary teams
• Planned and executed strategic and tactical plans for billion dollar businesses
• Devised merchandise plans for over 4000 stores quarterly
• Implemented supply chain solutions that sent Millions of dollars to the bottom line
• Developed integrated planning systems and processes
• Trained 100’s of individuals in the art and science of building strategic and marketing plans as well as executing them.

He has attained success as a business owner by translating his Fortune 500 skills into practical solutions for himself, growing one of his businesses to over $1 Million in annual revenues within two years of start up. 

Now he takes best practices learned in Fortune 500 businesses and provides strategies and plans that transform troubled companies into good ones and good companies into great ones.

Jeff continues to be a business leader serving on the advisory council of a national franchise and advisor to several Seattle area colleges. He supports many charities personally and through his businesses

Jeff holds a BS degree from the Carlson School of Management at the University of Minnesota and currently resides in Seattle with his wife, 2 children and dog. His passion is for wine which has taken him to the wine regions of Tuscany, California and Washington where he prides himself on being a consumer rather than collector of fine wines.
 

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