Landfall Partners Transformation Risk Advisory

Transformation risk advisory — Denver, Colorado

Most programs are lost before they start. We make sure yours lands.

Landfall Partners advises executive teams on execution and adoption risk — the distance between a program that was delivered and a business that actually changed. We've worked where that distance is most expensive.

Where we've worked

119Countries in one coordinated rollout
200K+Users reached in a single deployment
$260MReal estate portfolio transformed
100+Office locations moved and adopted

What we do

Four places we're brought in.

We work at sponsor level, on a small number of engagements at a time.

Assessment

Delivery confidence reviews

An independent read on whether a program will land: decision rights, readiness in the receiving organization, and whether the status reports match reality. Delivered to the sponsor, not to the PMO that produced it.

Benefits

Adoption risk

Finding where expected benefits will leak before they leak: roles never redefined, workarounds that become permanent, sponsorship that ends at go-live, and leaders who exempt their own teams.

Governance

Executive alignment

Getting sponsors to a shared definition of done — and having the conversations nobody volunteers for: what has to come out of scope, which regions are behind, and the messages leaders would rather not deliver.

Footprint

Portfolio and footprint

Consolidations, relocations, and office closures — run so the business keeps working through the move and the property spend returns something.

Why we're called Landfall.

Landfall is the moment a long crossing reaches land — where navigation stops being theoretical. That's the part of a transformation we work on. Not the strategy, not the build. The arrival, when people have to do their jobs differently and the investment either returns or it doesn't.

The practice draws on twenty-five years inside global professional services firms, leading the organizational side of large technology programs: ERP, clinical systems, risk platforms, shared services, and workplace transformation. That work has spanned 119 countries and organizations ranging from 400 users to more than 200,000.

We take a small number of engagements at a time, we work at sponsor level, and we tell you what we actually see. Programs get into trouble quietly, and usually everyone close to them knows it well before anyone says so out loud. Our value is being the person willing to say it while there's still time to act.

Selected work

Programs where the landing decided the outcome.

Global professional services firmTechnology risk platform

Led the coordinated global rollout of a technology risk management tool, serving as the central point across territories for surfacing risk, working issues to closure, and holding pace and quality in a complex multi-program environment.

119 countries
Big Four firmWorkplace & portfolio

Owned firmwide implementation of a new workspace and technology design, then wrote the methodology and phase playbook that governed how subsequent property projects were run.

$260M portfolio
VerizonProcurement platform

Built the enablement and communications approach for a platform rollout, from a 400-user pilot through mass deployment across the enterprise.

200,000 users
Johnson & JohnsonSAP finance competency center

Led the team that built the operating concept, and ran executive alignment, enablement, and communications across the affected operating companies worldwide.

250 companies
Virginia Mason Medical CenterClinical systems

Developed the readiness and enablement approach for staff, physicians, and nurses through a major systems change.

4,700 staff
OPEC Secretariat, ViennaConfidential engagement

Selected to interview leadership and develop confidential organizational strategy for the Secretariat and his officials.

Advisory
Silicon Valley acquisitionConfidential integration

Built the full workforce transition plan — onboarding, job roles, benefits, compensation, and enablement — and delivered it ahead of an aggressive close.

Delivered early

Leadership

Seery Maggio

Landfall Partners is led by Seery Maggio, formerly a Director at PwC and previously with Oracle, BearingPoint, and Arthur Andersen. Her work has spanned pharmaceuticals, health care, media, energy, financial services, manufacturing, technology, and the public sector, with engagements in China, Mexico, Austria, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom.

MBA, International Management — Thunderbird School of Global Management
B.B.A. and B.A., Southern Methodist University
Prosci Certified Change Practitioner  ·  Certified ScrumMaster  ·  SHRM

Contact

Have a program that has to land?

Tell us what's moving, who it affects, and when it has to be real. We'll tell you straight whether we're the right help.