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Executive advisory · Change management · Org design
Projects rarely fail from lack of effort. They fail from lack of alignment.
I partner with C-suite leaders to break silos, get to the root cause of stalled initiatives, and build the program and change management muscle your organization keeps long after I leave.
The diagnosis
Why good projects stall
The failure is almost never the team. It is the way the enterprise plans, funds, and connects the work. Three patterns show up again and again.
Disconnected capital and opex plans
Capital and operating plans are built separately across key units, so funding, staffing, and timelines never reconcile. Projects start funded and finish orphaned.
Poor planning, surfaced too late
Scope, resourcing, and readiness gaps that could have been caught in week two show up in month nine, when they are expensive and political to fix.
How I work
Partner. Advise. Build. Train. Upskill.
Every engagement follows the same arc: earn trust as a partner, advise on the hard calls, then build capability your teams own.
Partner
I sit alongside your leadership team as a trusted partner, not a vendor at arm's length.
Advise
Clear-eyed counsel on what to build, buy, or borrow, and what to stop doing entirely.
Build
Stand up the structures, tools, and operating rhythms that make delivery repeatable.
Train
Hands-on training in program and change management for the people who run the work.
Upskill
Coaching that turns your own staff into the in-house capability, so you need me less over time.
Executive coaching
One-on-one work with senior leaders on decision-making, presence, and leading through change.
Leadership alignment
Getting the executive team to one set of priorities, one plan, and one story the organization can follow.
Change management
Structured adoption work so new systems, processes, and org models actually stick.
Org design
Operating models, pods, and reporting structures shaped around the work, not the org chart's history.
Scaling PM and CM capability
Growing program and change management from a few strong individuals into an enterprise discipline.
Build vs buy vs borrow advisory
Honest guidance on when to develop capability in house, when to purchase it, and when to bring it in temporarily.
Ways to work together
Three engagement paths
Most clients start in one of three shapes. All of them are built to transfer capability to your team, not create dependence on mine.
Enterprise transformation program leadership
I take the wheel on a complex, cross-functional program: governance, cadence, risk, and executive reporting, with your teams doing the work and learning the discipline.
Fractional executive coaching
Ongoing, part-time access to a senior coach and advisor: working with you on decision-making, leadership presence, operating rhythm, and leading your organization through change.
Organizational change strategy
Strategy and coaching for a major change: the case for change, stakeholder plan, communications, and the sequencing that keeps people with you.
Engagements are shaped around your needs. Based in South Florida, serving clients nationwide, on site and remote.
Where I've done this
C-suite experience, wherever the work is
The root causes of stalled projects look the same in every industry, and so does the fix. I work across sectors. My most recent main clients are in education and cruise/hospitality.
Recent client work
Cruise & hospitality
Advising executives at one of the world's largest cruise organizations on digital strategy, operating model redesign, vendor transitions, and the program structures behind guest-facing technology.
Recent client work
Education
Partnering with university leadership on finance and HR transformation, resource planning, and building project and change management capability inside the institution.
The common thread: influencing senior leaders, enabling their teams, and scaling what works across the enterprise.
About
Jessica Stadelmann
Jess is the founder and principal consultant of Jess AI Consulting. She has spent her career inside large, complicated organizations, most recently global cruise and hospitality operators and major universities, and the pattern travels: the industries change, the root causes don't.
Her work sits at the intersection of strategy and delivery. She is the person executives call when a critical initiative is drifting, when leadership is not aligned on what matters, or when the organization needs capability it does not yet have.
Clients describe her the same way she describes the goal of every engagement: a trusted partner who leaves the organization stronger than she found it.
FAQ
Common questions
What does Jess AI Consulting do?
Jess AI Consulting partners with C-suite leaders on executive coaching, leadership alignment, change management, and org design. The focus is breaking silos, getting to the root cause of why projects stall, and building program and change management capability inside your organization.
What is fractional executive coaching?
Fractional executive coaching gives a leader ongoing, part-time access to a senior coach and advisor without a full-time hire. Jess works alongside executives on decision-making, leadership presence, operating rhythm, and leading through change.
Which industries does Jess AI Consulting work with?
Any industry. The root causes of stalled projects, silos, disconnected capital and operating plans, and poor planning, look the same everywhere. Most recent main clients are in education and cruise/hospitality.
Can AI fix misaligned projects?
AI can enable alignment through better data, faster analysis, and clearer reporting, but it cannot replace alignment. Leaders still have to agree on priorities, plans, and trade-offs. Jess AI Consulting helps organizations do both well.
Where is Jess AI Consulting located?
Jess AI Consulting is based in South Florida and serves clients nationwide, on site and remote. Use the contact form to start a conversation.
What is organizational design, and when does a company need it?
Organizational design is the work of shaping structure, ownership, decision rights, and reporting around what a company is trying to achieve. It's usually needed when a strategy changes, teams grow faster than their operating model, or projects keep stalling for reasons no single department can fix.
What's the difference between project management and change management?
Project management delivers the solution on time and on budget. Change management makes sure people actually adopt it. Most failed initiatives were managed well as projects and never managed as change.
How does an executive know whether to hire a consultant or build the capability in house?
If the capability is central to how the company competes and will be needed for years, build it in house. If it's specialized and occasional, bring it in. Engagements here are designed to leave the capability behind either way, through coaching and upskilling rather than dependence.
Why do large transformation projects fail?
Rarely for lack of effort. The recurring causes are units planning in isolation, capital and operating plans that never reconcile, and readiness gaps caught far too late. Those are structural problems, not team problems.
What does an engagement look like?
It starts with understanding the strategy and assessing whether structure, process, and people can carry it. From there the work shapes the operating model, builds the program and change practices, and coaches the leaders who will run them.
Contact
Let's find the root cause together
If a program is stalling, a leadership team is misaligned, or you are deciding what to build, buy, or borrow, a conversation costs nothing and usually clarifies a lot.