About
EMILY CLIFFORD | FOUNDER & PRINCIPAL CONSULTANT
Why I See Things Differently
I didn't build my career to become an expert in one function. I built it with the curiosity and tenacity to understand how businesses create value across them.
Working across functions, industries, and stages of growth taught me to see the connections - how one decision impacts another, how internal priorities shape external partnerships, and how the right relationships can unlock capabilities a business doesn't have on its own.
Over time, I discovered that this is often where the real leverage lies: understanding those connections and building the relationships that turn external expertise and capabilities into business value.
Seeing the connections is only valuable if you can do something with them. I ask the questions to understand different perspectives, identify where the right expertise sits, and bring the right people, perspectives, and capabilities together to make better decisions and move opportunities forward.
Today, I bring that cross-functional perspective together with deep supplier partnership expertise to help organizations find that leverage and turn it into growth.
Emily
Experience That Shapes My Approach
15+ years across the product and supplier ecosystem
Leadership roles spanning innovation, procurement, supply chain, quality, regulatory, manufacturing and distribution.
Bridge technical and business teams
Translate the needs of scientists, engineers and technology teams into commercial, operational, regulatory and supplier realities.
Led supplier-enabled innovation in global consumer health
Connected R&D, Procurement, Commercial and external partners to identify capabilities and bring supplier expertise into innovation.
Regulated and complex business environments
Experience across OTC & dietary supplement CPG, digital medical devices, healthcare products, food & snack CPG, and enterprise technology.
Fortune 100 to fast-moving start-ups
Expertise across organizations of different sizes, business models and risk tolerances.
EDUCATION & CREDENTIALS
B.S. Food Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
MBA | Supply Chain Focus
Virginia Commonwealth University
WHERE'S THE UNLOCK
Most organizations invest heavily in optimizing individual functions and external partners.
But some of the biggest opportunities live between them.
When internal teams and external partners operate in silos, organizations miss capabilities, slow innovation and create execution risk.
The unlock is in the connections.
Stronger connections build stronger relationships. Stronger relationships unlock capabilities.