"No one had ever done this before. We were the first. Not that we were aiming to break new ground; it's just what the client needed."
Shawn P Firehock
Shawn joined Blue Slate in 2003 and has since taken on many leadership roles at Blue Slate. He has been instrumental in executing Blue Slate’s strategic growth plan and he has been a major driving force behind our client delivery team’s continued success and excellence.
Shawn’s experiences in wealth management, insurance and banking provide a broad view into delivering agile and strategic solutions for our clients. Shawn leads teams in taking a strategic approach to assisting our clients solve their complex business problems. His deep understanding of the benefits and hurdles of change within an organization facilitates a successful execution of the change strategy.
Throughout his career, Shawn has actively assisted many Fortune 500 organizations in identifying and implementing agile, strategic solutions. His capabilities span the continuum of business performance management. Shawn thrives on collaborating with colleagues, clients and partners to improve business performance in activities from front to back office operations.
At Blue Slate, Shawn cultivated multiple partnership alliances that allowed Blue Slate to significantly grow its expertise and footprint in Financial Service and Healthcare organizations. Additionally he has orchestrated an outsourced business process management service for several healthcare payers and a Web-based insurance quoting platform.
Shawn graduated from Northeastern University with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering.
At A Glance
Skills
- Leadership
- Change Management
- Business Process Management
- Business Development
- Partner Management
- Opportunity Analysis and Identification
- Project/Program Management
- Startegic Planning
Degrees / Certifications
- Bachelor of Science, Northeastern University
- Project Management Mastery, Stanford University
- Leadership Development Program, Center for Creative Leadership
Projects
- Growing a partnership alliance that has allowed Blue Slate to implement solutions at over 30 Financial Service and Healthcare organizations
- Providing an outsourced business process management (BPM) service for several healthcare payers to enable them to maximize the return of their technology investments
- Creating and evolving a Web-based insurance quoting platform that enabled a division of a global insurance firm to grow by over 300%
- Establishing a strategic partnership with a leading investment management solutions company to help clients improve their customer service and optimize processes.