Guiding Our Clients Through Their Toughest Operational Challenges

At GuideTrail Consulting, we’re a boutique firm focused on building deep strategic partnerships with our clients by leading, advising, and strengthening their operating processes and governance models.

About the firm

  • GuideTrail Consulting’s founding is rooted in the idea that boutique service firms have a key role to play in the development and success of companies and organizations of all sizes. Our team comes from in-house operations leadership—so we’ve lived the exact moments that make GuideTrail’s specialized services essential. Moments when complete consulting overhauls aren’t required, but partnership and guidance through periods of organizational uncertainty are. These are the inflection points where we’re best positioned to deliver results for our clients.

  • We deliver results for our clients by providing operations leadership and guidance during times of operational challenge, organizational transition, or strategic inflection points facing in-house teams and business stakeholders.

  • To guide our clients through their toughest operational challenges while developing frameworks to optimize their future.

Our Services

    • Filling interim operations leadership needs

    • High priority project management

    • Technology implementation advising

    • Operations strategy and governance development

    • Spend, budget, and vendor utilization analysis

    • Review of existing processes, workflows, and structures

    • Identifying areas of operational opportunity for in-house leadership

    • Evaluation of workloads and responsibilities of in-house team

    • Recommendations and implementation strategies for operating efficiencies

    • Identifying areas where in-house operating model can benefit from AI, automated workflows, and/or leveraging tools in the existing tech stack

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Our Team

David Lowe

Founder & Principal

Experience:

Dave has extensive experience managing and advising Corporate Shared Services, Privacy, Compliance, Legal, Intellectual Property, and other in-house teams on their operations strategies and governance models.

His prior roles include Director of Legal Operations and Intellectual Property Program Manager at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, as well as Senior Manager of Shared Services and Business Advisor for Corporate Affairs at Evernorth Health Services, a subsidiary of The Cigna Group, a Fortune 15 healthcare company.

Education:

M.B.A. from Isenberg School of Management, UMass Amherst

B.A. from Willamette University

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