Formerly  ·  Nike  ·  Intel  ·  EDF Renewables
Bellingham, Washington

Fixing broken
execution in
complex organizations.

Enterprise PMO  ·  Portfolio Recovery  ·  AI-Enabled Delivery

We're brought in when execution is failing — missed commitments, unclear priorities, and leadership teams operating without a shared definition of value. We rebuild delivery systems, reset portfolios, and restore confidence at the board and executive level.

$28M
EBITDA impact through portfolio rationalization and AI-enabled governance — EDF Renewables
$2M
Annualized EBITDA recovered from $13M in untracked SaaS spend — ongoing
$12M
Annual savings delivered via Lean-Agile transformation in manufacturing
About

Built on Nike, Intel,
and EDF Renewables.

Henderson Solution is led by Scott Henderson — whose career spans Fortune 50 operations at Nike and Intel, complex transformation programs at EDF Renewables, and VP-level P&L ownership in PE-backed environments. That breadth isn't incidental. Execution failure looks different at each scale, and recognizing the pattern quickly is most of the work.

Scott brings the operating fluency of someone who has held the accountability — not just advised on it. Board-level reporting, full P&L ownership, multi-vendor program delivery, and hands-on AI deployment. When you engage Henderson Solution, you work directly with Scott.

Certified Chief AI Officer
Certified PMP
SAFe SPC
Lean Six Sigma Black Belt
Certified Agile Coach
Certified Scrum Product Owner
ITIL v4
Career
VP, Digital Transformation
Cypress Creek Renewables
PE-backed · Full P&L ownership · Board-level reporting · AI governance
Senior Director
EDF Renewables
P&L ownership · $28M EBITDA impact · Analytics strategy across 82+ systems
Senior Manager
Percipio Consulting Group
Multi-client transformation delivery · ERP programs · PMO build-out
Technology & Operations Leadership
Nike & Intel
Large-scale technology and operations programs in Fortune 50 environments
Sectors
Renewable Energy
Private Equity
Technology
Professional Services
Manufacturing
Retail
Consumer Goods
Infrastructure
When You Call Us

Execution is breaking down.
Here's what that looks like.

Delivery
Programs stalled or consistently missing commitments.

The schedule says one thing. Reality says another. Teams are working hard but not making visible progress. Delivery health has become a political conversation instead of a factual one.

ERP and large transformation programs are especially vulnerable — complex interdependencies, aggressive timelines, and multi-vendor environments with no single owner of the whole picture.

Portfolio
Too many initiatives, no clear priorities.

Initiative sprawl fragments capacity across too many efforts, none of which get the focus they need. Engineering is stretched thin. Every team is busy, but the portfolio isn't moving.

When you don't know which initiatives are bleeding value per week while they wait, the sequencing decisions that matter most get made by default instead of design.

Leadership
Board confidence in delivery is eroding.

Leadership teams are misaligned on what matters. The board is asking harder questions. Confidence in the organization's ability to execute is quietly — or not so quietly — slipping.

That's a solvable problem. But it requires a real picture of where delivery stands, a portfolio that reflects actual priorities, and governance leadership can trust to hold.

The best leaders are barely known to exist. When the work is done, the aim fulfilled — the team says: we did it ourselves. Execution is a system problem. Fix the system, and the team finds its own momentum. Lao Tzu · Tao Te Ching  ·  Agile Manifesto, Principle 5
Case Studies

The work, in detail.

Two engagements that illustrate how we work — and what it looks like when an organization recovers its ability to see clearly and deliver consistently.

EDF Renewables
Analytics Strategy  ·  Data Architecture  ·  AI-Enabled Transformation  ·  Renewable Energy
$28M
Annualized EBITDA impact
The situation
Data fragmented across 82+ systems, no shared strategy.
EDF Renewables operated a complex data landscape spanning SAP, HANA, AWS, PI, OCC, Ariba, and dozens of department-specific tools. Each group consumed data differently. The BI team sat at the center as a bottleneck — stretched across reporting, analysis, and pipeline maintenance with no capacity for strategic work. Leadership decisions were driven by gut feel rather than a shared data picture. The organization had more analytical capability than it could access.
Our approach
Map the landscape. Identify the connectivity opportunity. Accelerate from a fast-follower position.
We applied Wardley Mapping to chart the full analytics landscape — where data originated, how it flowed between systems, and where it was consumed by each business unit. The analysis surfaced the core problem: inconsistent consumption patterns indicating siloed communication, duplication of effort, and misaligned tooling across Finance, Operations, Field Management, and Corporate functions.

The key opportunity: SAP's Business Technology Platform (BTP) offered a path to connect the architecture without significant greenfield investment. HANA mirrored SAP data in native context, opening the full dataset to machine learning, AI, and citizen developer tools — without requiring new infrastructure. We recommended exploiting this existing capability first rather than building from scratch.

We established the EDF Strategic Analytics Corps: a cross-functional group led by a dedicated Data Strategist, chartered to co-create analytics solutions as fast followers of emerging data practice. The group was organized to reduce BI team cognitive load, distribute analytical capability across the organization, and build a common path to production.
The outcome
$28M annualized EBITDA improvement. Governance and methodology the team owns.
AI-enabled operational transformation delivered $28M in annualized EBITDA improvement. The BI team's bottleneck role was restructured into a strategic function. Consistent architecture and governance were embedded across the organization — and the savings compound because the team owns the methodology, not the consultant.
PE-Backed Enterprise
Technology Rationalization  ·  SaaS Portfolio Recovery  ·  Spend Governance
$2M
Annualized EBITDA recovered
The situation
$13M in SaaS spend. No central visibility. Duplication across every category.
A PE-backed organization was carrying $13M in annual SaaS spend across 82 platforms and 7 categories — with no central governance and no complete picture of what the portfolio contained. Duplication was visible everywhere once the full inventory was surfaced: three HR systems (Workday, ADP, Greenhouse), four overlapping finance and ERP tools (Oracle NetSuite, Sage Intacct, Rillion, FloQast), dual cloud infrastructure running in parallel (AWS and Azure), and six communication platforms competing for the same workflows. The spend existed. The problem was that nobody could see it.
Our approach
Full portfolio audit. Economic case for consolidation. Sequenced rationalization.
We conducted a complete audit of all 82 platforms — mapping each tool to its business capability, its actual usage, and its relationship to adjacent tools performing similar functions. For each category, we built the economic case for consolidation: not just the savings from eliminating redundant licenses, but the governance and operational value of reducing the number of systems the organization had to maintain, integrate, and secure.

Rationalization was sequenced to minimize disruption to live operations. The highest-overlap categories — HR systems, finance stack, and collaboration tools — were prioritized first. Platform reduction targets were set at 25–30%, with payback modeled against subscription savings alone.
The outcome
$2.8M+ annual savings potential identified. $2M realized. Payback under 6 months.
The audit surfaced $2.8M+ in annual savings potential — 21% of total SaaS spend. $2M is realized year-to-date, with platform count reduced 25–30% through consolidation. Payback period was under 6 months through subscription savings alone. A portfolio review discipline is now embedded in standard operating rhythm — not a recurring engagement.
What We Do

From broken execution
to self-sustaining delivery.

Four integrated disciplines — each designed to move the organization from where it is to where it needs to be, without building in a permanent dependency on outside support.

01
Stabilize Execution
We bring immediate clarity to delivery health, risks, and priorities. Leadership gets a real picture of where programs stand — and what it will actually take to close the gaps. No theater. A shared, factual baseline that makes the next decision possible.
→ $6.8M ERP delivered on time and under budget, zero disruption
02
Rebuild Portfolio Discipline
We reduce initiative sprawl and align work to actual business value. Fifty initiatives become fifteen prioritized ones. Capacity is freed. OPEX drops. The organization stops fighting its own portfolio and starts delivering through it.
→ 50+ initiatives → 15 prioritized · 15% OPEX reduction
03
Install Governance That Works
We create decision systems leadership can trust — not process theater. The framework converts exposure into governed risk. The test of whether it worked: it operates and extends independently after we leave.
→ 27% compliance cycle time reduction, Cypress Creek Renewables
04
Enable Teams to Deliver Again
We restore focus, reduce friction, and increase throughput without burnout. When the system is fixed, the team performs — and the savings compound because the team owns the methodology, not the consultant.
→ $12M annual savings via Lean-Agile transformation in manufacturing
Results

Execution recovered.
Delivery restored.

A consistent pattern across engagements: the capacity was already in the organization. The work was removing what was blocking it — and building the disciplines to keep it from returning.

$28M
EBITDA impact — EDF Renewables
Portfolio rationalization and governance discipline surfaced where value was being lost — and built the operating rhythm to stop losing it. Delivered through AI-enabled analytics transformation across a fragmented 82-system data landscape.
$12M
Annual savings — Lean-Agile transformation, manufacturing
Lean-Agile disciplines embedded across the organization. Waste reduced, throughput increased, headcount held flat. The team owns the methodology — the savings are self-sustaining.
27%
Compliance cycle time reduced — Cypress Creek Renewables
AI-enabled workflows rebuilt a compliance process the team could operate and extend independently. Governance that actually governed — and held after we left.
$6.8M
ERP implementation — on time, under budget, zero disruption
A high-stakes implementation delivered without the chaos that typically surrounds programs of this scope. Discipline, sequencing, and stakeholder alignment from day one.
$2M
Annualized EBITDA recovered — SaaS rationalization
$13M in shadow SaaS spend mapped across 82 platforms. $2.8M+ savings potential identified; $2M realized year-to-date. Platform count reduced 25–30%. Payback under 6 months.
AI, Applied

Not theoretical.
Actually deployed.

We don't just advise on AI strategy — we build and deploy working systems. This hands-on capability changes how we approach transformation: faster iteration, better decision support, and real leverage inside delivery systems.

Product
NarrativeOS
AI career intelligence platform with scoring, resume synthesis, and research agents. Built and shipped independently — from architecture through deployment. Demonstrates the full build-to-production cycle we bring to client engagements.
Product
ClauseLens
AI contract analysis tool that extracts and explains key legal clauses for non-lawyers — reducing dependency on outside counsel for routine contract review. Applied legal AI in a practical, high-value workflow context.
Enterprise
AI Workflow Deployment
Enterprise AI deployment (Copilot + workflow automation) driving measurable cost and cycle-time reduction. Governance frameworks that convert AI exposure into auditable, governed capability — with measurable outcomes, not aspirations.
How We Work

The engagement arc.

01
Diagnose
We surface the real delivery health picture. Map where value is created and where it's leaking. Understand which problems are complex versus merely complicated — because the answer changes the entire approach.
02
Prioritize
We reduce sprawl to a focused portfolio. Sequence initiatives against their economic value and cost-of-delay profile — not political weight. Commit at the last responsible moment and preserve optionality where the decision isn't yet clear.
03
Stabilize
We install the governance and delivery disciplines. Remove structural, political, and cognitive blockers. Restore a shared, factual baseline that leadership can use to make investment decisions — not just scheduling ones.
04
Sustain
The engagement is complete when the team is delivering independently and the savings compound on their own. The only meaningful test: the team looks back and says — without hesitation — we did this ourselves.
Let's Talk

If execution is slipping,
let's reset it quickly.

If programs are stalling or your portfolio isn't delivering — let's find 30 minutes and work out what it will take to fix it.

[email protected]

Bellingham, WA  ·  Available for travel and remote engagements nationally