Orrington Strategies - Management Consulting Firm

Laura D. K. Farwell

Laura Farwell is an Associated Consultant who works with Orrington Strategies on a project basis. Laura has over ten years of management consulting experience in business strategy, market analysis and segmentation, new product and services design, and organizational design, development, and change management. Her engagements have spanned The Americas, Europe, and Asia, and included clients in service, high-technology, and consumer goods industries.

As a Project Director at The Cambridge Group, she led growth strategy engagements for consumer goods, financial services, and telecommunications clients. At Sibson & Company (now part of Segal & Co.) she managed organizational strategy projects and change initiatives for clients in high-technology and services industries. Previously, at Booz Allen Hamilton, she worked on market strategy and operations management assignments in consumer goods, insurance, and other services industries.

Laura has taught Change Management for the part-time MBA program at DePaul University and Business Communications at Madison Area Technical College. Her publications include articles in London’s Financial Times on managing organizational dimensions in high-growth and entrepreneurial firms; and in Insight, the journal of the Illinois CPA Society, on managing professional services firms.

Laura received her MBA from INSEAD, in Fontainebleau, France, where she was awarded the Cartier Global Marketing Scholarship. She earned her PhD at Princeton University, specializing in Medieval English and Italian Literature, and her BA cum laude from Yale University in mathematics and English.