STRATEGY / TRANSFORMATION / PERFORMANCE

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Rachel Walter

Better work starts with better conversations.

I help organizations navigate complexity, rethink how work gets done, and turn strategy into measurable performance through executive advisory, AI-enabled transformation, and purposeful facilitation.

Let's talk

For the room where the answer isn't obvious.

01 / Pathway

Solve & Transform

We have a problem to solve, a strategy to shape, or work that needs to change.

02 / Pathway

Lead & Learn

We need an experienced facilitator to develop our people or deliver an important experience.

Selected Impact

Across global enterprises and growing organizations, I've connected strategy, technology, leadership, and human capability to measurable business outcomes.

Strategy that delivers measurable results.

01 / Enterprise Scale
30,000+
Global workforce reach
Led enterprise learning and capability development supporting a global workforce of more than 30,000 employees.
02 / Operational Efficiency
50%
Less training administration time
A purpose-built training management solution helped Hilti reduce administrative effort and simplify complex learning operations.
03 / AI-Enabled Business Performance
109%
Sales target attainment
Following an AI-enabled leadership and work redesign initiative, approximately 80% of sales team members achieved 109% of target despite an earlier forecast of 94%.
04 / Organizational Transformation
40%
Faster decision-making
A leadership capability transformation strengthened critical thinking, delegation, ownership, and decision practices across a global organization.

Selected results from enterprise leadership and client transformation engagements. Client identities protected where required.

01 / Solve & Transform

When you have a problem to solve, a strategy to shape, or work that needs to change.

Make the complex workable.

We start with the real challenge—not a pre-packaged answer. Together, we create the conditions for useful tension, honest thinking, and a decision the organization can move with.

Strategic Advisory & Transformation

From complex challenges to practical change.

I work with executive teams to translate strategic priorities into operating models, capabilities, and ways of working that deliver measurable results. Whether navigating AI adoption, organizational transformation, or evolving workforce needs, I bring enterprise leadership experience and a systems perspective to help organizations move from intention to execution.

Areas of focus

Enterprise AI strategy and AI-enabled work
Organizational transformation and operating-model design
Workforce capability and leadership systems
Innovation and product strategy
Strategic execution and performance improvement

Discuss a Challenge

AI-Enabled Performance

Featured offering

AI changes more than tools. It changes how work gets done, where decisions happen, what humans need to own, and what capabilities matter.

I facilitate working sessions that help teams move beyond AI experimentation to determine where AI can improve performance, how workflows should change, where human judgment remains critical, and what people need to do differently.

Design Thinking & Problem Solving

Bring the messy problem.

I design and facilitate structured working sessions that help teams understand complex challenges, uncover needs and root causes, generate possibilities, make decisions, prototype solutions, and move toward action.

Strategy & Alignment

For leadership teams that need to establish priorities, make decisions, align around direction, solve an important problem, or translate strategy into execution.

The objective isn't another meeting. It's creating the structure and conversation required to move forward.

Featured offering

AI-Enabled Work Design Sprint

Bring a real workflow or business challenge.

Through structured discovery, design thinking, and performance analysis, we'll explore:

The business outcome that matters
How the work happens today
Where AI creates new possibilities
The right division of work between humans and AI
Where human judgment remains critical
How the workflow should change
What capabilities people will need
What to test or do next

This is a working session, not an AI awareness course. The goal is to leave with clarity about how AI can improve real work and performance.

Flexible Ways to Work Together

Strategic Advisory

Executive thought partnership, strategic assessments, and guidance on complex transformation decisions.

Project-Based Engagements

Defined initiatives with tangible deliverables, from AI work redesign to capability architectures and transformation roadmaps.

Fractional Leadership

Embedded strategic leadership for organizations that need experienced direction without adding a permanent executive role.

Featured Case Study

Lead with Courage: Bringing AI into the Work of Leadership

How leadership development and AI-enabled work redesign supported stronger sales performance.

When an organization introduced Microsoft Copilot and Salesforce Einstein, managers needed more than instructions for using the technology. Some lacked confidence, others questioned its value, and established work habits were difficult to change.

We revisited an existing leadership development program to identify what was preventing managers from coaching AI-enabled work.

Using a Reveal → Align → Perform approach, we connected AI tools to practical sales workflows, strengthened coaching and delegation practices, and equipped managers to model new ways of working while retaining human judgment and accountability.

Reported outcome

Despite economic pressure and a forecast of 94% sales target attainment, approximately 80% of sales team members achieved 109% of target, with some reaching 125–130%.

Reported by the organization following the intervention. Results reflect many factors and are not presented as caused by the intervention alone. Client name withheld.

Explore the Case Study

02 / Lead & Learn

When you need an experienced facilitator to develop people or deliver an important experience.

Create an experience people can use.

Good learning is not a performance. It is a well-designed invitation to see something differently, practice it together, and take it back to the work.

Leadership Experiences

High-engagement leadership and team experiences designed to create meaningful conversation, practical insight, and behavior change.

One Voice is a signature leadership experience focused on helping leaders create greater alignment and consistency in how they communicate and lead.

Custom Workshops

Sometimes the right workshop doesn't exist yet.

I can design or adapt leadership, team, performance, and capability experiences around an organization's specific audience, business context, and desired outcomes.

Bring Your Program

Already have great content but need an experienced facilitator?

I can deliver existing leadership, learning, transformation, and professional development programs virtually or in person.

One Voice is a signature experience originally designed for an American Airlines leadership kickoff; it focuses on alignment and consistency in how leaders communicate and lead.

Practical leadership resources

PDF · 1 page

GROW Coaching Guide

Use Goal, Reality, Options, and Way Forward to structure customer conversations, understand the real challenge, and agree on practical next steps.

Download Guide

PDF · 1 page

Leadership Coaching Guide

A quick-reference guide to communicating with clarity, confidence, and authority—connecting recommendations to business needs, challenging with purpose, and making your point effectively.

Download Guide

03 / How I work

From ambiguity
to a way forward.

The format follows the challenge. The work stays grounded in what needs to be different.

Bring the challenge

Design the experience

Facilitate the work

Leave with clarity and action

Not sure what kind of workshop you need?

That's fine. Tell me what needs to be different when the session is over. We'll determine the right approach from there.

Start with the challenge

04 / About Rachel

I help leaders have the conversation the work requires.

I'm a Chief Innovation Officer, executive facilitator, strategist, author, and performance improvement practitioner.

My experience spans global leadership development, organizational change, innovation, design thinking, performance improvement, AI-enabled work, product strategy, and large-scale organizational change.

I spent 19 years at Hilti in leadership and global learning roles before becoming Chief Innovation Officer at ansrsource.

A few things I bring

/MBA, Data Analytics
/CPTD · AI4PI trained
/Author of Amplified Leadership: Partnering with AI to Develop People, Purpose, and Performance
/Speaker and conference presenter

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Daci Farm Publishing takes its name from my parents’ farm and serves as the publishing home for my independent work.

05 / Speaking & Facilitation

For moments that need more than a presenter. For rooms that need movement.

Put the right voice in the room.

Available virtually
and on-site.

01Executive working sessions

02Leadership meetings and offsites

03AI-enabled work and performance workshops

04Design thinking workshops

05Strategy and alignment sessions

06Leadership development programs

07Conference workshops and keynotes

08Delivery of existing corporate programs

Virtual facilitationIn-person facilitation

06 / Start a conversation

What needs to happen in the room?

You don't need to know what the workshop should look like yet. Start with the problem, the people who need to be involved, and what you want to accomplish.

Prefer to book directly?

Schedule a 45-minute meeting

Rachel E. Walter provides select consulting, advisory, executive coaching, speaking, educational, and related professional services through Daci Farm Publishing LLC.