Experienced leadership scaled to your needs
Strategy is a critical part of keeping your business growing.
The right vision for operations helps retailers maintain agility, profitability and a consistent customer experience across sales channels. And a clear technology roadmap helps businesses leverage data for smarter decision-making while keeping sensitive customer information secure. However, finding — and keeping — leaders capable of driving strategy can be challenging.
Wipfli can help you avoid the complexity and cost of finding C-suite talent with our fractional executive services for retail.
Why Wipfli?
Wipfli’s executive outsourcing brings the full power of our experience, leadership and advisory skills to help manage your people and operations.
With a team that includes professionals with retail-specific experience, we understand the unique needs and challenges facing your industry. We also work to understand your business and adapt to your way of doing business, processes and systems — not demand that you conform to ours.
Whether you need to increase performance in finances, technology, people or operations, Wipfli can help guide you in realizing your vision of success.
How we help you
Our outsourced chief financial officer services can help your business with:
- Financial analysis
- Strategic planning
- Cash flow forecasting
- Debt structure and refinancing
- Margins evaluation
- Benchmarks and KPIs
- Budgeting and gap analysis
- Spending habits analysis
- Board meeting attendance
- CFO plus training program
Wipfli’s outsourced chief human resources officer can support functions including:
- Compensation and benefits strategy
- Employee experience strategy
- Succession planning
- Leadership development
- Executive coaching
- Organizational structure and role alignment
- Talent strategy and philosophy
- Career pathing
- Talent assessment
Let Wipfli’s outsourced chief information officer assist you with:
- Digital advancements
- IT vendor management
- Performance metrics and benchmarks
- Digital transformation initiatives
- Infrastructure decisions
- IT strategic planning
- IT goal setting
- IT budgeting
- IT process design
Transform how you execute strategy with Wipfli’s outsourced chief operating officer. We can support your business with:
- Strategic planning
- Organizational goal setting
- Metrics and benchmarking analysis
- Annual operational planning
- Planning and organizational functioning
- Vendor management and selection
- Organizational culture enhancement
- Organizational vision
Wipfli’s virtual chief information security officer can help your business with:
- Information security strategy
- Cybersecurity roadmap and reporting
- Cybersecurity compliance
- Security incident response and breach support
- Security architecture and implementation
- Cybersecurity safeguard validation
- Business continuity and disaster recovery preparedness
- Employee security training
- Board and leadership communication
Our team
Tom Cox
Tom Cox leads Wipfi's leadership development programs. As a partner with 35 years of experience, clients benefit from Tom’s demonstrated ability to develop leaders and teams, cascading plans and accountability throughout organizations.
Kelly R. Runge, CPA
Kelly Runge is a partner in Wipfli’s business advisory services practice. She provides consulting services for small and medium-sized companies. Kelly helps her clients meet their ongoing compliance needs as well as their short- and long-term business objectives.
Ryan Swiderski
Ryan Swiderski is a technology partner serving the MRD practice. He leads Wipfli’s retail and consumer products industry, specializing in CX tech, including Microsoft Dynamics 365, Salesforce, ERPs, business intelligence solutions and more.
Molly Trottier, Human Resources
Molly Trottier is a manager in Wipfli’s outsourced human resources (HRO) practice with over 15 years of experience in human resources strategy, compliance and organizational leadership. She leads a team of consultants who deliver customized HR solutions tailored to the growth stages of clients across various industries. She regularly advises on performance management, employee relations and HR technology systems, serving as a trusted professional across the firm.
Tom Wojcinski
Tom Wojcinski is a partner in Wipfli’s cybersecurity and technology management practice. He specializes in helping organizations reduce and manage the risks to modern technology and information systems.
CASE STUDY
Wipfli’s outsourced accounting helped Ace Hardware of Coalinga change its accounting method, set KPIs and streamline processes.
