Ensuring a Balanced and Successful Business Transformation

  • Why to transform: a necessity or a flavor of the month
  • Focusing on practical steps during a transformation to bring your people on board and along for the journey
  • Creating a transformation plan that provides maximum and long-term impact for the business
  • The procurement piece: improving speed to market and overall success of a transformation journey


Natasha Gurevich

Former Chief Global Procurement Officer
Nike

Natasha is a Procurement, Sourcing and Supply Chain professional with 25 years of experience across multiple industries.  Her career spans from beginning as a temporary employee at The Gap in 1999 to becoming the CPO of Nike in 2021.  In the Procurement field, she is known as a transformation expert, enhancing the commercial value and improving the financial standing of the companies she serves. Among her teammates, she is known as caring and mindful, a leader with integrity, intention and authenticity.

Natasha has been driving tangible, measurable results for Fortune 200 companies by designing processes that bring dramatic cost reductions, leading the centralization of disintegrated functions, drastically reducing 3rd party risks and improving enterprise technology adoption.  What made her successful is her commitment to creating cross-functional teams, building shared purposes for stakeholders and fostering trust and camaraderie in the people around her. While Ms. Gurevich is driven by delivering the highest results possible, her true passion is elevating the work experiences of the teams she’s been privileged to work with, learn from and lead.