Keryn Gold, PhD and OTBi Solutions empower organizations to improve profits without layoffs so they can do more good. They partner with leaders to achieve what they once believed impossible: accelerated multi-year plan and goal achievement, more engaged employees, and improved work/life balance for both themselves and their people, without burnout.

20-Year History Delivering Multiple-Fold ROI Within Weeks

An award-winning entrepreneurial leader, executive advisor, business strategist, and change-maker, Keryn has a unique, effective, and compassionate approach with a proven history over the past 20 years of consistently delivering 50x ROI to her clients. Her experience includes being CEO and COO of start-ups and consulting firms, working in venture capital and private equity, and establishing and leading data science and strategy divisions and centers of excellence at multiple Fortune 50 and FAANG companies. Clients consider Keryn a "resourceful, perceptive, trusted advisor" who "proactively delivers transformational value with relentless compassion - phenomenally fast." Her commitment to delivering measurable results and multiple-fold ROI within weeks, uncovering hidden profits without negative impact to people, product, or service quality, while accelerating innovation and unleashing the potential of employees and improving schedule flexibility for all make her a trusted and highly-sought-after partner for organizations across industries and stages of growth.

Keryn Gold, PhD
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Success-Based Business Model & 50/50 Referral Profit-Share

Central to Keryn's business is her distinctive success-based model. This is designed to ensure aligned incentives – if her company doesn't produce savings, they don't get paid. Her track record of value-creation is evident in that most of Keryn's business comes from repeat clients and their referrals. Examples of transformational value delivered for clients range from accelerating a start-up CEO's 5-year vision, manifesting it within just 1 year and 100x-ing their customer acquisition, to enabling $10-$100M cost-savings at multiple Fortune 500 companies across industries inside of 6 months, while empowering their employees to spend more quality time with their loved ones.

Aligning with her drive to create win-wins and equitable partnerships, when others refer to her business, Keryn shares her net project profit 50/50 with them, in gratitude for their trust and providing her with expanded opportunities to empower others to make a difference, amplifying their collective impact.

Holistic, Data-Driven Actionable Insights & Problem-Solving

Keryn's business ecosystem provides a range of services, a subset of which includes: strategic planning and management consulting, data science and AI consulting, cost management and expense reduction, process optimization, procurement and supply chain optimization, talent identification, recruiting, and leadership development, coaching, and culture transformation.

They leverage data science and exploratory data analysis to reveal low-hanging fruit for both rapid near-term impact and long-term value-generation. They also design and implement lightweight solutions to streamline workflows, meetings, and processes, freeing up clients' time and empowering their employees to innovate and collaborate more effectively and achieve improved work/life balance. This enables Keryn's businesses to deliver significant value within weeks, with a proven history delivering multiple-fold first-year ROI within 3 months.

Keryn addresses the interrelated challenges that businesses face holistically to enable clients to stay ahead of the curve while improving the amount of quality time they get to spend with loved ones. Her approach involves not just mitigating the challenges brought on by change, but also capitalizing on the opportunities it enables. From process improvement to strategic innovation, Keryn empowers clients to navigate change in a way that accelerates success by understanding their core needs and the root causes of their challenges - and then unblocking them and empowering them to get back more time in their days.

Forthcoming Book Empowers Business Leaders to Have it All

Throughout her career, Keryn has witnessed leaders and organizations striving to deliver results and successfully innovate while grappling with the challenges of employee engagement and work/life balance. The Leadership Playbook, Revisited, is a culmination of over 100,000 hours of Keryn's research, testing, and refinement, and provides specific, actionable, implementable tools, systems, and processes that she's successfully implemented to drive transformational value at start-ups through Fortune 50 and FAANG companies, across industries.

The strategies outlined in this book are designed to distill Keryn's experience into 1-page "plays" (with a companion website) to help more people, at scale, to achieve results similar to her clients. In the book, she demonstrates how businesses can have accelerated growth and multi-year plan achievement, engaged and happy employees, and schedule flexibility – and do so without having to clone anyone.

Award-Winning Consulting Leader, Executive Strategist & Advisor

Those who work with Keryn benefit from her strategic acumen, gain access to proven, innovative, data-driven solutions to their challenges, and thrive in the face of change. Her unique approach and consistent history of delivering transformational value make Keryn a highly sought-after partner, and have earned her accolades including "10 Most Inspiring Business Women" by CXO Outlook, a "Top Innovator & Entrepreneur" by multiple organizations, and a "Changemaker of Distinction" by Ashoka. Her articles and business transformation strategies have also been featured in several top Leadership Excellence publications.

For Keryn, it's all about the joy of unblocking people and empowering them to achieve what they once believed to be out of reach.