Curt Cornelssen, BSMP, SPP

Curt is a strategic planning, strategy execution, change management, business planning and innovation expert with over 30 years of experience in guiding organizations to improve financial, organizational, and operational performance. He has led major transformation programs and initiatives for government, private sector, and non-profit organizations with budgets ranging from $50M to over $20B, resulting in over $3B in new revenue, over $2B in savings and improving the quality of life for over 2M people across six continents. Curt has over 20 years of experience as a consulting practice leader for major professional service firms and over ten years as a senior strategy, transformation and innovation leader for major government and industry organizations that operate in over 500 locations worldwide. He led major transformation programs using the balanced scorecard for strategic planning and performance management, the ADKAR and Kotter 8-step approaches for change management, and developed and deployed comprehensive internal communications plans that were used for a wide variety of internal and external stakeholders.

Prior to joining the Balanced Scorecard Institute Curt was the Vice President of Growth and Solution Innovation at Sodexo, one of the world’s largest foodservice companies. Prior to joining Sodexo, he led the public sector management consulting group at CBRE, the world’s largest real estate services company, where he managed large business transformation initiatives and programs for the US Department of Defense and development of the US National Park Service Concessions strategic plan and performance management system. Curt served as a senior government civilian at the Pentagon, where he led strategy and innovation offices for multibillion dollar organizations at the Office of the Secretary of Defense and Headquarters, US Air Force. Earlier in his career, he was a consulting practice leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he led the five-year transformation of the $1B US Department of the Interior Visitor Services systems.

Curt is a certified Change Management Professional, Strategic Planning Professional and Balanced Scorecard Master Professional. He earned a Bachelor of Science in Hotel Administration from Cornell University, a Master of Science in Real Estate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and served as a Senior Research Fellow at the George Washington University School of Business.

Curt currently serves on the Boards of the International Association for Strategy Professionals, National Park Trust, and the American Logistics Association.