John Pancoast
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Client Advisor
John supports leaders and teams in their strategic transformation efforts with his years of experience and proven management tools. His change leadership consulting approach is highly responsive and customized to each clients particular situation and needs, serving senior executive sponsors/ decision makers, team leaders and team members, and ensuring commonality of action across organizational levels and boundaries. His consortiums facilitate cross-organizational benchmarking and best practice sharing for executives leading critical staff functions.
John has spent his career specializing in corporate transformational change and post-merger integration. Between 2006 and 2013, he was a Partner of Schaffer Consulting. During his time there, he worked with senior corporate executives on a variety of projects focused on acquisition integration and transformational change. Clients during this period included Bard Medical Division, Bausch+Lomb, The Gannett Company, Grupo Industrial Saltillo, Grupo Progreso, ING Wealth Management, The Mentor Network, Merck, Metronet, Mohawk Fine Paper, Tele Atlas and TomTom.
Earlier, John was a consultant and partner with Gunn Partners, a firm that served leaders of corporate functions such as Finance, IT, Procurement and Human Resources, with industry benchmarking, process reengineering and functional strategy development. Some of the organizations he served in this capacity include American Express, CNA Financial, Citicorp, Gillette, Thomas Lipton, Mobil, Praxair, Simon & Schuster, The Thomson Corporation, U. S. Cellular, Unilever and Union Camp.
John began his consulting career with Hayes/ Hill, a marketing and strategy advisory firm that later became part of Towers Watson. During this period, he worked with numerous overseas corporations to assess US markets to identify potential market entry or acquisition strategies. Some of the organizations he served included Daikin Corporation, Frederich Deckel, and numerous members of UCIMU, the Italian Machine Tool Manufacturers Association.
John has served as a member of the Arts Council of Greater New Haven and with HBS Community Partners, a pro-bono consulting organization focused on supporting the leaders of Connecticut non-profits. John earned his M.B.A. degree at Harvard University and holds an A.B. with distinction in economics from Dartmouth College. He currently resides in Washington, DC.