People profiles
Tarisa Parrish
Professional Background
- Professional Management Consultant with 25+ years of experience
- Executive Consultant for Best Buy working with the executive team on the company turnaround and strategic growth
- Business transformation and integration experience for both large and small corporations
- Degrees in Business Management, Marketing, and IT. Professional certifications from Harvard and University of Minnesota
- Professional certification in business coaching, change management, and organizational design. 500 E_RYT Yoga Instructor
- Published children’s book author on topics of nature, ecology, biology and conservation
M&A Skills & Expertise
- Professional consultant with proven expertise in business transformation, M&A integration, change management, operating model design/effectiveness, innovation, and leadership development
- Industry roles: Consumer Goods, Technology, Health & Wellness, Medical Device and Mass Media
- Led several integration & multidisciplinary transformation projects such as strategic growth multichannel fulfillment optimization, customer experience and marketing transformation, acceleration of online growth, digital transformation, enterprise cost reduction and margin optimization, end-to-end process reengineering
- Led both large and small M&A integrations. Experience working with the US DOJ on pre-merger HSR notification, reporting and compliance
Project Highlights
M&A Integration/business transformation leadership:
- Works side-by-side with executive leadership to set company strategy, approach and plan for enterprise-level transformation in order to the shift culture and associated behaviors/mindsets to support enterprise growth
- Led the Best Buy Renew Blue turnaround and transformation including the $800M acquisition of Great Call
- Led multiple Harvest Health & Recreation acquisition integrations including a complex $850M acquisition subject to the US DOJ HSR process
change management/organizational effectiveness:
- Provides change management to build stakeholder maps, readiness assessments, change impact assessments, engagement and communication plans, leadership alignment, and change advocates
- Designs and implements company-wide operating models to integrate and optimize the organization