Jarel Hawkins

Jarel Hawkins is an empathetic, innovative, data-driven, and adaptive executive. He has over twenty years of progressive executive leadership and individual contributor experience in digital transformation, engineering, automation, IT, strategy, product design and development, management consulting, sales enablement, operations, process re-engineering, program/project management, marketing, and organizational change management. Hawkins specializes in M&A creating inclusive cultures of innovation through his 4C framework: communication, clarity, consensus, and collaboration. His cross-functional and multi-industry experience allows him to catalyze creative insights and innovation. As an entrepreneur, he was an early pioneer and trailblazer in sneakers as an alternative asset class. He is featured on CNBC, Wall Street Journal, Complex, Barron’s, and Marketwatch.

Hawkins is an internationally certified practitioner, evangelist, and execution expert of Lean Six Sigma and emerging tech including AWS, automation (workflow, RDA, RPA, IPA), machine learning, AI, Agile, cloud, DMAIC, TQM, TPM, and DFSS.