Consultant Bios
Gina Hoagland
President
Expertise
- Strategic planning
- Performance management
- Succession management
- Executive coaching
- Search consulting
Education
- Master's of Business Administration degree, University of Virginia Darden Graduate School of Business Administration, Charlottesville, Va.
- Bachelor of Science degree, Economics and Public Administration, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
Current Focus and Results
Gina has led strategic planning engagements for in excess of 300 companies and not-for-profit agencies since joining Collaborative Strategies in 1993. She brings a results-oriented pragmatism to planning, coaching, and execution. Through her partnership approach, clients have grown firm value, impact, and capability. Gina initiated Collaborative Strategies’ search consulting services to help clients build organizational capacity. Under her direction, the firm has completed more than 200 highly successful placements in senior management, sales, finance, distribution, and other positions.
Experience
Gina served for two years as a financial analyst on Wall Street with Morgan Stanley & Co. following her undergraduate education. After receiving her MBA, she joined Prudential Capital as a senior associate in Chicago and Newark, N.J., where she located, priced, and booked a dozen private placements in a two-year period.
Community Commitment
Gina serves in leadership roles with a number of community organizations, institutions, and governing agencies. In 2009, she was appointed by the governor to serve as a commissioner and the audit committee chair for the Missouri Lottery Commission. She is the current board development chair and a past board president of South Side Day Nursery, a family and community organization. She is a past president of the Board of the St. Louis chapter of the Entrepreneurs Organization (formerly “YEO”). She serves on the boards of St. Louis Forum and Opera Theatre St. Louis, and is a member of the St. Louis Arch Angels. Gina was recognized in 2004 as a Woman of Achievement for Social Enterprise and in 2003 among the St. Louis Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 High Achievers. In the fall of 2008, CSI was recognized by the St. Louis Small Business Monthly as a “Top 20 Under 20” (employees) business.
Achievements
- Assisted professional services firm in dimensioning a changing environment, researching options, formulating choices and reaching a consensus among partners to move into more profitable niches as a leader in its field.
- Mobilized not-for-profit board to develop a strategy, secure new funding sources, and recruit executive director to lead the organization’s revitalization.
- Helped national engineering practice launch new business and recruit top-flight leadership team resulting in a profitable revenue stream with a break-through product.
- Assisted non-profit in identifying a ground-breaking approach to constituents, substantially improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the agency’s service delivery model. Model is being adopted nationwide in other chapters.
- Assisted in professionalizing a third-generation family business through strategic planning, succession and advisory board facilitation. Firm profitability ranks in the top 10% in its industry.
