Partnering with Food
& Beverage leaders to
deliver their most
critical initiatives
Creating a World where Change is Fun and Innovations are Successful
Why we’re different
Rebel Success for Leaders is a boutique consultancy partnering with executives in the Food & Beverage industry. We help you ensure your critical transformations, initiatives, strategies are not just implemented but operationalized. Through our 25 years of experience we know how to make them stick, after the initiative is wrapped up. We are located in Chicagoland, the backyard of the largest density of food and beverage industry companies in the US.
When leaders sets out to implement or operationalize their change initiatives, the biggest risks to achieving the intended results include: handoffs that kill progress, not setting and tracking KPIs for behavior change, critical members of the team are not communicating, solutions developed that don’t account for behavior change, speed that misses capacity and capability gaps. Leaders we’ve worked with have said they truly value our ability to help mitigate the biggest risks to achieving the intended results.
Change leadership isn't just about process—it's about people, behaviors, and how they interact with your systems.
Today’s transformations are urgent and mission-critical, yet organizational leaders are either drowning in competing priorities or lack the experience to make change stick. Working with an experienced guide who understands your industry’s complexity and can shape solutions for your specific culture is the competitive advantage between success, mediocrity and failure.
As a c-suite leader or VP with responsibility for R&D, Innovation or Manufacturing the specific red flags to watch out for that indicate your organization has a change implementation challenge that requires meaningful action include: too much agreement when you know there’s dissent, strategy creep, delays in timelines, entrenched cultural resistant to change.
5 Specific Times Our Clients Call On Us
Your challenge doesn’t fit a template, so neither do our solutions. We take proven industry practices and adapt them to your culture. The result? Clear direction, organizational alignment, and stronger team capabilities.
Solution Oriented
Deep Expertise
Boutique and Nimble
Clarity In Complexity
Team Alignment
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Our Customizable Approach to Drive Proven Results
We challenge you to be bold as you create and implement strategies that transform your organization.
We specialize in the STEM functions on the front lines of change and growth—your R&D, Engineering, and Innovation teams. Together, we co-create strategies that stretch existing boundaries and design processes grounded in trust and accountability.
Creating sustainable success means elevating your technical experts’ capabilities by connecting their purpose with organizational strategy. Our approach gets them working in new behaviors quickly—the ones that actually drive innovation and growth.
The change economy needs change leaders who collaborate effectively, influence authentically, and focus on the people they serve.
Even experienced leaders need expert guidance to drive change leadership initiatives. Why? You gain expanded bandwidth and an outside perspective that spots what you can’t see from inside. Reach out to Rebel Success for Leaders before your need becomes urgent.
Rebel Success for Leaders is certified as Women’s Business Enterprise (WBE) through the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC).
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is change leadership consulting?
As we at Rebel Success for Leaders define it, change leadership is holistically inclusive of operationalizing culture and behavior change, aligning people process and priorities, and building enduring change leadership capabilites. Our consulting expertise develops strategies with you across those three pillars to operationalize your initiatives. The ‘sticky’ implementation of those strategies is where we excel.
Hiring a change leadership firm?
Many top performing organizations are leveraging outside boutique change leadership consulting firms as part of their solution team because of the competitive advantages they bring, including: cross pollinated best practices, accountability, connecting the dots that can’t be seen in isolation, authority and credibility to the solution.
The top reasons decision-makers cite for changing the outside firm they’ve historically relied on for this business need are: no help with implementation, generic expertise without specialization, working with junior staffers, not achieving results.
How do you measure success?
From the very beginning of our proven process, we clearly understand your specific situation and goals for the initiative and work together to develop the business case for moving forward as well as doing nothing. The KPIs that we develop together include the typical elements of time and milestone achievement, but we focus the majority of the KPIs on behavior changes that are needed in your organization for the success to stick – lasting beyond when we’re finished.
Why choose Rebel Success for Leaders?
Leaders we’ve worked with in the VPs of R&D, Engineering, Manufacturing seats have said what they truly value about working with our firm is: helping them gain front line and stakeholder buy in for strategic priorities, reading the tea leaves of organizational complexity, accessibility to the founder, partner with them on effectively implementing the initiative.
When an R&D/Innovation/Manufacturing leader sets out to implement or operationalize their change initiatives, the biggest risks to achieving the intended results include: handoffs that kill progress, not setting and tracking KPIs for behavior change, critical members of the team are not communicating, solutions developed that don’t account for behavior change, speed that misses capacity and capability gaps.
When should we call you?
Leaders often tell us they’d like to know who to call before the problem arises. Connecting now to understand the full capabilities of Rebel Success for Leaders will ensure that you have us on your short list when the need arises.
When you’re within 3-6 months of any of the following initiatives, it’s an ideal time for us to connect and share insights to help inform your strategic approach to operationalizing change: new leader with a change mandate, organizational process change to realize strategic vision, capability gaps in the team to achieving your growth goals, team effectiveness dysfunction.
In the meantime, three ways you can access additional insights, data and benchmarks to help you address operationalizing change within your organization are: attending virtual conversations, subscribing to our LinkedIn newsletter, and website blog.
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