Helping leaders move up and to the right.
Lauren Wambold Patel is a trusted resource for senior executives seeking to address complex business challenges and drive sustainable growth.
With over 20 years of experience advising Fortune 100 companies, she identifies strategic insights and leverages proven methodologies that enable organizations to navigate disruption and achieve transformative results.
Lauren Wambold Patel is the Founder and CEO of Keenan Reid Strategies, a pioneering consulting firm she established in 2014. Under Lauren’s leadership, Keenan Reid has driven significant transformations for Fortune 25 companies, including north star strategy development, business model transformations, and sales and marketing turnarounds.
Prior to founding Keenan Reid Strategies, Lauren was a project leader at The Boston Consulting Group and a leader at Dell Technologies. While at Dell, she led a transformative period for Dell’s Consumer and Small Business organization, achieving positive revenue and margin growth and significantly expanding the retail channel share.
Lauren holds an MBA from The McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin and a Bachelor of Science in Evolutionary Biology from Georgetown University.
As founder & CEO of Keenan Reid Strategies, Lauren advises Fortune 100 leaders on nine-figure growth, optimization and transformation opportunities.
Keena Reid connects companies with on-demand independent management consultants for crucial fractional, interim and project roles.
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As speaker, Lauren shares how leaders can survive, adapt and thrive in the face of market disruption.
Lauren’s fast-paced, highly interactive sessions pull from her 20+ years of transformation, business model development and revenue growth experience - learned as a former Boston Consulting Group management consultant, founder and student of evolutionary biology - to enterprise and non-profit organizations looking practical and clear guidance to move forward.
Lauren’s written work examines how businesses facing market disruption adapt and develop protectable competitive advantages.
As the voice behind The 2x2 Newsletter and it’s sister YouTube, she shares actionable insights, expert strategies, and time-saving templates that help independent consultants and fractional executives level up their impact.
