Building Brand & Culture Together

Kim is the founder and principal of Summit, a management consulting firm that specializes in helping organizations advance the change that drives peak performance. Leading a team of senior-level practitioners, Kim works with clients across a variety of sectors in both consultative and fractional C-suite engagements. Kim and the Summit team use a proven process to address and align the four key drivers of change – Strategy to guide it, Culture to empower it, Brand to communicate it, and Operational Systems to implement and sustain it.

Previous to building out Summit, Kim was the Chief Marketing Officer and Chief People Officer at Suffolk Construction. In this role, she was responsible for leading and driving the corporate branding, marketing and philanthropic strategy and also provided leadership and oversight of talent management, succession planning, engagement and retention, performance management and leadership development. Kim also served on Suffolk's executive management team, which was responsible for providing counsel and input on the strategic direction of the company. Here, she ensured that any evolving strategies, ideas and initiatives were in alignment with Suffolk’s overall mission and business goals, while also creating and maintaining a strong corporate culture for employees.

Kim is a graduate of Holy Cross and a graduate of Harvard’s Executive MBA Program.

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An accomplished senior Marketing and People & Culture executive, Erin has a unique skill set combining HR and marketing through her work in management and executive leadership roles.  Her expertise spans the full employee life cycle including talent acquisition, workforce development, performance management, rewards, engagement, and retention. Prior to joining Summit, Erin was a Vice President of Employee Engagement at Suffolk and Vice President of HR and Marketing at TG Gallagher.

In addition, Erin also has significant experience in change management, data & analytics and HR infrastructure assessment and development. Her combination of tactical and strategic experience promotes effective, long lasting change in organizations.

Erin is a graduate of Middlebury College.

Mark helps companies craft and communicate their brand stories across a full range of media and customer contact-points. By giving brands a “voice,” Mark helps to bring them alive for their primary audiences. His deliverables include brand strategy and story, brand voice and message development, brand engagement and training, and naming and copywriting.

Over more than 25 years, Mark has served a wide range of companies around the world. He works with senior leaders to drive change, facilitate consensus and decision-making, and build more powerful brands both internally and externally.

Mark is a graduate of Wesleyan University.

A senior Operations Executive with more than 30 years of industry experience, Grant has overseen business strategy and operations in support of some of the largest and most respected building construction companies in the US. Prior to joining the Summit Team, Grant was the Chief Operating Officer of Eaglestone Holdings, the Private Equity backed holding company of  15 MEP/FP and Energy related service firms in Greater NYC and New England.  His expertise includes executing key business initiatives, establishing new offices, and oversight of governance, strategy, operations, non-operations business support, company advocacy and brand expansion.  He has served as a member of the Management Committee of a $3B/year privately held company as well as a member of the Executive Committee of a $5B/year publicly held company.

Grant’s background in project management, operations management and corporate leadership roles have given him a wealth of knowledge and experience in field operations, corporate operations, QA/QC, health and safety, finance, risk management, training and development and the integration of continuous improvement processes on a company-wide scale. Throughout his career, he has been a passionate advocate for leveraging state-of-the-art innovations and technologies in support of the advancement of the construction industry.

Grant is a graduate of Union College.