A career spent helping leadership teams move through high-stakes work: enterprise transformation, business performance, integration, growth, and the moments when there is no established playbook.
These examples are drawn from James Vivian’s operating and consulting career. They show the scale, ambiguity, and execution intensity Auchenglen is built to handle.
As SVP, Head of Business Management at Dow Jones, James led business management for a global division spanning data, media, news, and events.
As a senior transformation executive, James led company-wide modernization across an organization of more than 7,000 people.
Before Dow Jones, James helped launch a U.S. consulting business from zero, building client relationships and growing the delivery team in a new market.
The common thread is not an industry or a single methodology. It is creating clarity, structure, and momentum when the stakes are real and the route forward is not obvious.
Worked in the Office of the Chief Executive on enterprise strategy, planning, and governance.
Helped build a new consumer division and supported major integration work.
Helped move the first major investment in a flagship product for a decade from ambition into action.
Defined and led the firm’s global Covid response through fast-moving, unfamiliar conditions.
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