Cassie Solomon, Consultant, Liberty Business Strategies

Expertise

Cassie is a highly experienced executive coach and organizational development consultant.  She specializes in helping leaders and their teams improve their productivity with an emphasis on delivering meaningful results for their business. She delivers performance-based organizational development consulting with clear links to her client’s bottom line performance.  Trained at Yale, Penn and Wharton, she applies system-level thinking from multiple disciplines to address complex client problems. 

Clients

Cassie has extensive experience with both Fortune 500 and entrepreneurial organizations in multiple industries. She also has a wealth of experience with large mission-driven organizations with complicated stakeholder dynamics such as health care systems and universities. Over the past 15 years, Cassie’s clients have included Raytheon, Cigna Insurance, IMS America, Prescient Medical Inc. and NERA Economic Consulting. Her health care clients have included Inova Health Systems, University of Rochester Medical School, University of Pennsylvania Health System, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and Christiana Cares Health System. Other not-for-profit clients have included Georgetown University and the Free Library of Philadelphia.

Representative Engagements

• Aligning Team Around Strategy: The successful launch of high-potential products in a life sciences company hinged on creating vital debate within the senior leadership team. Cassie worked with the CEO to understand the personal and team behaviors that could jeopardize the regulatory strategy and product launch. She advised the CEO as the team reformed and transformed and helped the group to accelerate the on-boarding of new executives. The new, strengthened agreement about commercialization strategy resulted in successfully raising the next generation of funds for the company.
• Accelerating Decision-making in a Complex Stakeholder Environment: In a complex stakeholder environment, confusion about who owns which decision can become a source of conflict or stagnation. With Cassie’s guidance, a health systems CEO and his senior team stream lined decision-making and broke through one particular strategic log-jam. Cassie and the senior team then brought the process to the entire leadership team, including 25 physician leaders who embraced it.
• Developing Project Management and Delegation Skills: To support its accelerating growth, an international economic consulting firm needed to teach its senior consultants how to manage teams effectively. Cassie worked with the Senior Vice President of Professional Development to create a project based workshop to help these senior economists minimize turnover and manage their project teams more effectively in a turbulent client environment. In addition, Cassie was asked to coach specific high-potential consultants who needed to both repair and build new relationships more effectively.
• Learning to Lead: A brilliant academic physician with limited leadership experience was asked to unite two departments in a $10 billion dollar hospital care system to create a new service line. Cassie worked with this new chairman to help him learn the leadership skills he needed to unite these disparate groups, and create an effective executive team. Cassie guided the chairman to the recognition that listening deeply to the stakeholder groups on both sides of the new organization would result in an effective strategy. She helped him to think through the new organizational structure, reward systems and personnel dilemmas that he faced as he created the new center.
• Introducing New Technology: Having worked with the Metropolitan Transit Authority on the introduction of its new technology trains, Cassie was invited by the National Academies to author a study on the introduction of web-based collaborative tools in the construction industry. The report focused on three case studies of organizational change and new technology: the Port Authority of NY and NJ, the Chicago Transit Authority, and Raytheon. Cassie has also worked with a number of health systems on the introduction of new technology with health care providers.

Professional Background

Cassie joined Liberty Business Strategies in 2007. Prior to joining Liberty, Cassie spent 15 years as a senior consultant at CFAR, a consulting firm that spun out of the Wharton School of Business. While there, she honed her consulting skills and focused on team and leadership coaching. She also contributed to the firm’s professional development, training and recruitment efforts. She is a skilled facilitator of workshops and business meetings, specializing in senior management and large-scale off-site meetings to build synergy around new initiatives.

Education and Training

Cassie holds an MBA degree from the Wharton School of Business, with concentration in Operations Management. Her undergraduate degree is from Yale University in Organizational Behavior.

Cassie has taught consultation skills to MBA’s in Wharton’s Business School, and senior executives at its Aresty Institute of Executive Education. She has also taught physician and nurse executives at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics.

Professional Affiliations

Member, Philadelphia Human Resource Planning Society, 2005 to present
Member, Delaware Valley Health Care Executives, 2006 to present

Cassie Solomon can be reached at:  
Mobile:   610-716-6311
cassiesolomon@libertystrategies.com