Erica Grant, Principal

Erica Grant is a Principal in Axiom Consulting Partners’ Business Transformation practice, based in the Chicago office. She is the leader of “the Women of Axiom” a group focused on empowering and supporting Axiom’s female employees.

At Axiom, Erica partners with senior leaders to align organization, leadership, and talent strategies to drive value creation and improve business outcomes. She brings over a decade of consulting experience with expertise across industry sectors including Manufacturing, Insurance & Financial Services, and Consumer & Retail.

I believe that real change starts with creating a safe space to realize hard truths, challenge the status quo, and embrace what could be.

Experience

Prior to joining Axiom Consulting Partners, Erica spent eight years in client service and non-profit roles where she learned the value of creative problem solving and meeting the client where they “are” to achieve real, sustainable results.

Some of Erica’s career highlights include:

• HR Transformation – assessed and redesign the Human Resources function for a high-growth manufacturing company. Identified an opportunity to improve margins by $60M annually through an integrated workforce planning and recruiting approach.
• Operating Model – redesigned the Talent Acquisition organization for a complex, multi-divisional conglomerate. Aligned recruitment processes, technology, and operating model to reduce organization complexity, improve efficiency and reduce operating expenses by $1M annually.
• Employee Value Proposition – designed a global employee value proposition and employment branding for a Fortune 500 medical technology company, resulting in an eight-position improvement on Fortune’s Top 10 “Best Places to Work”.
• Executive Team Effectiveness – partnered to enhance the performance of a Sales Leadership Team for a Fortune 500 CPG company. Provided individual leader and team coaching to identify, measure and drive accountability for the behaviors and actions that drive team performance.

Erica earned her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Columbia College Chicago. She is a certified facilitator of the Hogan Leadership Assessment Suite.