Donncha Carroll, Partner
With a background in Manufacturing and Energy, Donncha has over 20 years of experience serving corporations as a business consultant in North America, Europe, and Australasia. Donncha has worked with business leaders in CPG, Technology, Communications, Professional Services and Healthcare to help them build the infrastructure, momentum, and agility to deliver sustainable growth. Applying cutting edge tools and analytical techniques to operational, financial and workforce data, his passion and focus is finding patterns and insights to enable critical strategic and operational decision-making.
Experience
Prior to founding Axiom Consulting Partners, Donncha led enterprise software development for Hudson Human Capital Solutions in North America and brought TalentMax to market in the U.S. and Europe. He was a Partner at MPact Consulting, a consultant at Sibson & Company and an Energy Engineer at Commonwealth Edison.
Notable Achievements
- Go-To Market Strategy: Integrated internal and external data (including US demographic trends) to develop a go-to-market strategy for a multi-billion dollar CPG company delivering a 6% growth rate vastly outpacing the industry.
- Data Analytics & Machine Learning: Used detailed billing data (millions of records) for a global professional services firm to develop a validated predictive model for customer growth (with an 80% accuracy rate) leading to over $30M in annual revenue impact.
- Organization Transformation: Transformed a financial services organization from a product centric focus to an integrated customer oriented model that included the remapping of accounts, development of persona based value propositions and the redeployment of sales resources to new roles and territories.
- Enterprise & Mobile Software Development: Designed and led the development of an enterprise Talent Management system that was sold in a SaaS model and deployed to organizations in the U.S. and Europe. Winner of a Google hosted Safe Communities Hackathon, designed to improve community involvement in neighborhood policing using Chicago’s Open Data API.
Publications & Affiliations
Donncha’s work has been published in the Journal for Organizational Excellence, workspan magazine, the Talent Management Alliance as well as the Financial Times. Mr. Carroll is a member of the Big Data Analytics Professionals Group and the Chicago Data Visualization Association.
Education
Donncha has a Master’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from University College Dublin in Ireland. His research focused on Pattern Recognition for CNC Machines using Machine Learning and Neural Networks.
Personal Note
Music has always been a passion of mine. In the last ten years I’ve had an opportunity to form a Chicago band with some friends playing gigs in many of the bars in Lakeview and Lincoln Park. It’s been such a great experience that it reminded me that you should never set aside what you love to do. Life is all about striking the right balance. You can’t do everything you want to do but it’s worth trying.