Kellie brings a unique combination of business and organizational skills to all her assignments.  After 20+ years of senior management experience in leading key business development and program initiatives, Kellie is known for her collaborative ability to balance organization, process, and technology to achieve optimum results. Her business experience ranges from strategic planning to tactical oversight. Kellie helps clients:

• Develop strategic recommendations and realization roadmaps
• Organize and lead operational projects or programs involving several initiatives
• Direct due diligence initiatives for business acquisitions and manage integration implementation following acquisitions
• Implement and execute organizational change initiatives in support of mergers, acquisitions or strategic initiatives
• Develop portfolio management processes to suit client situation and needs
• Evaluate internal processes; facilitate and recommend process improvement  
• Assess and recommend optimization strategies for business intelligence, information technology and support functions

Kelsey has over fourteen years of competitive intelligence and strategy planning project management experience, with the last six in the agriculture industry. Her business expertise includes: perceiving business issues, designing frameworks, developing and delivering insights, implications and recommendations to influence strategic decision and choice to deliver sustainable business results.

Kelsey’s focus includes:

• Competitive intelligence leadership
• Business and strategy planning
• Market and competitive intelligence; data collection, synthesis, application of analytic techniques and storyline creation
• Building and leading high-performing teams
• Development of cross-function networks to anticipate and support leadership needs

Kim brings more than twenty-five years of business communications and research experience to the Context Network. Her journalistic and corporate communications background in agricultural, energy, financial and manufacturing sectors allows her to assist clients in:

• Writing white papers, case studies and success stories
• Designing and conducting global market intelligence studies
• Conducting in-depth, qualitative industry interviews and trend analysis
• Writing and editing newsletter and website content for internal/external audiences
• Planning strategic communications 
• Developing process documentation and technical manuals

Rachel brings to Context clients a broad background of over 15 years working in sales, marketing and management in the international food and agribusiness industries.  Prior to joining Context, Rachel was the International Sales and Marketing manager at Charm Sciences, responsible for managing distributor sales of Food Safety diagnostics systems in ~30 countries across Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Mid-East and Africa. Prior to joining Charm Sciences she managed the China Region business growth strategy for Monsanto Company in Beijing, China. Rachel has expertise in: 

• Technical sales
• Distributor management
• Project and change management
• Strategy development and implementation
• New business development
• Adapting sales, marketing and product strategy for new and emerging markets

Dale Logan has more than 25 years of experience in the chemical and seed industry. Dale has developed multiple strategic planning models, along with creating and developing SeedMatrix, a web-based seed data management system. Dale’s expertise spans the following areas:

• Ag chem and seed distribution
• Business analysis and planning
• Financial planning model development
• Internal processes and analysis

Within the Context Network team, Lainey supports agricultural leaders by providing strategic & market analysis, leading and/or assisting in client engagements, and producing consulting reports, frameworks, and other project deliverables.

She helps agricultural leaders analyze and implement action plans to improve their business objectives and cultivate profitability. Her background includes workshop facilitation, strategic planning, and market analysis. Lainey provides project management, business and market analysis, business development and other support that enables clients to meet their goals.

With nearly a decade as part of the Context Network team, Lisa leads the strategic Operational and Marketing direction and initiatives throughout the organization.

Lisa has a diverse background in account management, strategy & development, and international marketing. She brings together experiences from a broad range of industries to assist clients with:

• Lisa brings together experiences from a broad range of industries to assist clients with:
• Market research, analysis and strategy development
• Pricing strategies & portfolio mix
• Marketing programs
• Contract negotiation
• Project management
• Relationship management

Dr. Miller has thirty years of experience in building and transforming organizations and cultures. He has worked from farm to pharmaceuticals, and from seed to crop protection in 16 countries.

• Designs change initiatives to align and enhance cultures to support achievement of new strategic initiatives.
• Develops organizational development strategies to align with future strategic initiatives
• Supports M&As in culture integrations
• Builds durable strategic alliances and joint ventures
• Enhances organizational leadership capacity
• Develops contributions competency attainment
• Facilitated strategic planning
• Provides executive coaching to key leaders to support strategy execution to culture enhancement

Jason’s diverse background spans the public, private, and social sector. His focus is on leveraging multi-stakeholder collaboration to unlock value at the base of the pyramid. 

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Central Asia he led multinational teams in the development and implementation of interventions focused on food security, agronomic vocational education, and greenhouse crop production. As a management consultant he helped federal agencies simplify their performance evaluation through the development of balanced scorecards. 

His career is typified by the use of analytical problem solving to deliver key insights and actionable idea