JOSHUA PARKER · STRATEGIC OPERATIONS & CLIENT LEADERSHIP
Strategic Operations and Leadership for Complex Business Challenges
I help organizations work through business challenges and move important work forward. I bring a practical approach shaped by experience across strategy, operations, and client leadership.
Based in Kansas City · Remote collaboration · Open to travel
CAREER EXPERIENCE
12+
YEARS OF EXPERIENCE
Experience Across Business, Technology, and Creative Teams
12+ years connecting business priorities, client relationships, and complex delivery across consulting, streaming, marketing, and technology.
Career experience includes Launch Consulting, Paramount+, Traction, VML, and Kincaid Group.
Explore My Experience
Strategic Operations & Business Processes
Connected executive priorities to planning, reporting, and team accountability. Led business process improvement and established clearer workflows, ownership, and coordination across functions.
Client Relationships & Consulting Leadership
Partnered with clients and executive stakeholders to understand business needs, shape solutions, and guide engagements. Supported proposals, account expansion, and alignment between client expectations and delivery capabilities.
Complex Programs & Digital Delivery
Led initiatives spanning streaming, live events, enterprise technology, and digital marketing. Coordinated multidisciplinary teams, managed dependencies and risks, and brought structure to high-visibility launches and changing priorities.
Creative & Marketing Programs
Led agency programs connecting client stakeholders with creative, design, content, and technology teams. Managed planning, reviews, schedules, and handoffs across campaigns and digital experiences.
Business & Systems Analysis
Gathered requirements, mapped processes, analyzed systems, and developed technical documentation. Translated business needs into clear requirements and supported coordination between business and technology teams.
HOW I HELP
How I Can Help Your Business
Experienced support for business priorities that cross teams, functions, and client relationships. Available for focused consulting projects, fractional support, and interim leadership.
You Might Need Help When…
- Your leadership team has priorities but needs someone to drive them forward.
- A critical initiative is stalled across teams.
- Your consulting firm needs experienced leadership for a client engagement.
- Your creative or digital team needs additional program leadership.
01 / STRATEGIC OPERATIONS
Strategic Operations & Fractional Leadership
Translate leadership priorities into clear plans, useful reporting, and decisions that move the business forward.
- Strategic planning and operating cadence
- Executive decision support and accountability
- Cross-functional alignment and process improvement
02 / CLIENT LEADERSHIP
Client & Consulting Delivery Leadership
Connect client needs, solution design, and delivery capabilities to strengthen partnerships and support account growth.
- Client relationships and stakeholder alignment
- Proposal development and solution shaping
- Account expansion and engagement leadership
03 / TRANSFORMATION
Complex Programs & Transformation
Lead complex initiatives through ambiguity, aligning people, resources, and risks around the outcomes that matter.
- Strategic initiatives and change coordination
- Program recovery and launch readiness
- Portfolio priorities, governance, and visibility
PROJECT & FREELANCE SUPPORT
Creative & Digital Program / Project Support
Hands-on program and project leadership for agencies and in-house creative, marketing, and digital teams. Bring structure to a busy pipeline, coordinate a launch, or add experienced capacity when the team needs it.
- Creative and campaign planning, schedules, and workflow coordination
- Digital launches, dependencies, and production handoffs
- Client communication, stakeholder reviews, and delivery visibility
Available for defined projects, freelance engagements, and temporary team support.
SELECTED EXPERIENCE
Leading Complex Work to Meaningful Outcomes
20+
Cross-functional teams coordinated across the Paramount+ Super Bowl LVIII streaming program.
12+
Years of leadership experience across consulting, streaming, technology, and marketing.
MBA
MBA and BS in Information Technology from Baker University.
PARAMOUNT+ · SUPER BOWL LVIII
Aligning a High-Stakes Launch
Coordinated more than 20 cross-functional teams around a fixed live-event deadline. Connected readiness plans, dependencies, risks, and executive decisions so teams could execute together.
APPLE EVENTS · AGENCY PARTNERSHIP
Connecting Clients and Delivery
Supported Apple Events creative programs through an agency partnership. Connected client needs, cross-functional planning, and stakeholder communication around high-visibility marketing events.
MEET JOSHUA
I Connect the Plan to the People
I’m Joshua Parker, a strategic operations and client leadership consultant with more than 12 years of experience across technology, media, and marketing. My work has taken me from enterprise digital programs to major streaming launches and client partnerships.
I’m at my best when the goal is important, the moving pieces are numerous, and a team needs someone to create clarity. I bring structure while keeping the people, relationships, and decisions in view.
My background includes senior program leadership at Paramount+ and Traction, Principal-level planning and delivery at Launch Consulting, and program management at VML. Earlier in my career, I served in the Kansas Army National Guard.
MBA & BS in Information Technology · Baker University
U.S. Army National Guard Veteran · Former E-5 Sergeant
Leadership Shaped by Service
Kansas Army National Guard · 2007–2013 · Sergeant (E-5)
Before my civilian leadership career, I served in the Kansas Army National Guard, including a 2010–2011 deployment to Kuwait and Iraq, where I supported information management. That experience helped shape my approach to leadership: stay composed, communicate clearly, take responsibility, and support the people carrying out the work.
WORKING TOGETHER
A Clear Starting Point for Working Together
We can define a focused project, ongoing support, or an interim leadership need.
Start with a Strategic Operations Assessment
When it’s useful
Your team has an important business priority, but competing commitments, unclear ownership, or slow decisions are getting in the way. You need an outside perspective and a practical path forward.
What we work through
- Clarify the business objective, stakeholder needs, and the decisions that need to be made.
- Review existing plans, operating rhythms, responsibilities, and execution risks.
- Identify where handoffs, reporting, resource constraints, or competing priorities are slowing progress.
What you come away with
A concise assessment of the main obstacles and a prioritized action plan: recommended changes, clear owners, dependencies, and immediate next steps. The focus is on decisions your team can act on.
How the engagement works
A defined project with agreed scope, deliverables, timing, and fee. You can use the recommendations internally or discuss support with implementation.
Fractional Leadership Support
When it’s useful
You need ongoing strategic operations or Chief of Staff support, but the workload or stage of the business doesn’t yet call for a full-time hire. An executive or leadership team needs a partner who can connect priorities across functions and keep decisions moving.
Where I can contribute
- Translate leadership priorities into coordinated plans, ownership, and an operating cadence.
- Prepare decision-ready reporting, surface tradeoffs, and follow through on commitments.
- Connect client, commercial, and delivery teams around strategic initiatives and growth opportunities.
What the support produces
A shared view of priorities, clear accountability, useful leadership updates, and consistent attention to cross-functional work. We agree on the responsibilities I own and how progress will be measured.
How the engagement works
Recurring support with an agreed time commitment, meeting rhythm, and scope. We review the arrangement as needs change, with room to expand, narrow, or hand responsibilities back to your team.
Interim or Embedded Leadership
When it’s useful
A leadership gap, business transition, major launch, or struggling initiative needs experienced attention now. Your team needs someone to step into the work, establish direction, and provide continuity while a longer-term structure takes shape.
What I focus on
- Establish the current state, immediate priorities, and the stakeholder relationships needed to move forward.
- Coordinate decisions, resources, dependencies, and risks across the teams involved.
- Create a workable execution plan and leadership visibility while addressing the most pressing obstacles.
What the engagement leaves behind
Clear ownership of the work, documented plans and decisions, an established operating rhythm, and a practical handover to a permanent leader or internal team.
How the engagement works
A defined assignment with an agreed mandate, decision authority, availability, and transition plan. Depending on the need, the scope may center on strategic operations, client delivery leadership, or a specific transformation initiative.
LET’S CONNECT
Let’s Figure Out What’s Getting in the Way
Bring a business challenge, a complicated initiative, or an opportunity you’re trying to move forward. Start with a free 30-minute consultation.
We’ll Discuss
- What’s happening and where things are getting stuck.
- What needs to change to move forward.
- Whether my experience and approach are a good fit.
No pressure. Just a productive conversation.
Share a brief overview of your challenge, the support you’re looking for, and any timing considerations. I’ll follow up by email to arrange a conversation. No detailed brief needed.
