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The Growing Pains of Change
Those who serve growing populations face increased demands, limited resources, and heightened risk as they work to make the world a better place. We help leaders in government accomplish more with greater efficiencies. We understand the unique challenges of the public sector and specialize in mitigating risk and delivering value that positively impacts both the bottom line and society at large.
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We have the unique opportunity to take [North Highland’s] report and use it as the foundation to rebuild NJ TRANSIT into a 21st century agency
Diane Gutierrez-Scaccetti, Chair, NJ TRANSIT; Commission, New Jersey Department of Transportation
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Wayne Messina
Managing Director and CEO, North America
<p>Wayne has over 25 years of experience helping clients through complex transformations. Specific areas of his expertise include strategy development, project and program management, financial planning, business case development, procurement, and cost analysis.</p>
Chris McCarthy
Vice President, US Transportation Lead
<p>Chris has 25 years of experience in the transportation industry, working with the rail, transit, state and federal government, private industry, and international banks. Specific areas of his expertise include strategy development, project management, market analysis, financial planning, public policy, and international business and trade.</p>
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Rick Zelznak
Vice President, Health and Human Services Lead
<p>Rick brings more than 25 years of experience in Public Sector Health & Human Service (HHS) policy, technology and financial management. Specific areas of expertise include complex program and project management, strategy development, stakeholder engagement and communications, vendor procurement and oversight and financial management. Rick leads the Public Sector Health and Human Services Practice area for North Highland. </p>
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Monesia Taylor Brown
Vice President of Government Relations
<p>Monesia “Mone” Taylor Brown serves as Vice President of Government Relations. Based out of the firm’s Tallahassee, Fla., office, Monesia leads the firm’s Government Relations strategy while driving growth for its Public Sector industry. Monesia brings more than 20 years of experience in state and local government public affairs strategy, emergency disaster response and recovery, corporate community investment, and managing corporate initiatives.</p><p>Most recently, Monesia served as Director of Public Affairs and Government Relations for Walmart Inc. Prior to her experience with Walmart, she served as the Director of the Agency for Workforce Innovation, Florida's labor agency, and worked for the State of Florida as General Counsel to the Department of Management Services and Director of Legislative Affairs and Chief Cabinet Aide to the Attorney General. </p>
Rachael Pickup
Associate Vice President, UK Public Sector Lead
<p>As an Associate Vice President in our Government sector, Rachael plays a leading role in supporting government departments to meet and respond to the immediate and emerging needs of the UK. She has over 15 years of experience in both education and the public sector and has led teams to deliver value in several high-profile and high impact projects. Rachael is a recognised leader in the transformation space, designing and delivering transformation programmes that effectively bring together people-centricity, cultural and organisational change, planning, and technology & digital to deliver rounded and robust solutions for clients.</p>
Craig Spence
Vice President, UK & Middle East Portfolio Lead
<p>Craig is the UK Central Government Lead and is passionate about supporting government departments as they transform the way they work. He has a background in change management and transformation working in both the private and public sector.</p>
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Adam Wilinski
Associate Vice President
<p>Adam Wilinski is an Associate Vice President at North Highland. Adam brings over 15 years of experience enabling commercial and public sector clients to transform their operations, workforce, and customer experience by optimizing the use of technology and data. Adam specializes in transportation where he has fostered relationships with leaders at the country’s largest transit, DOT, tolling and airport providers. Adam identifies the unique needs of his clients and connects them to the people and capabilities within North Highland to meet those needs. Adam began his career as a consultant with Capgemini serving in such roles as Customer Experience Senior Strategist and Business Process Re-engineering Lead before transitioning into the Business Development. Adam has worked for North Highland since 2016 where he leads our Business Development efforts within transportation.</p>
Tina Worley, PMP
Associate Vice President
<p style="text-align:justify">Tina has been with North Highland since 2009 and has specialized in Health and Human Services (HHS) for the Public Sector for 28 years. Her most recent work includes directing a state-wide MMIS transformation while nationally supporting the North Highland public sector portfolio across all industries.</p>
Jon Burchard
Associate Vice President, General Government Lead
<p><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);color:rgb(51, 51, 51);display:inline !important;float:none;font-family:-apple-system, system-ui, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif, "Apple Color Emoji", "Segoe UI Emoji", "Segoe UI Symbol", sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-style:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;orphans:2;text-align:left;text-decoration-color:initial;text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-thickness:initial;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:pre-wrap;widows:2;word-spacing:0px;">Jon brings more than 25 years of experience in Government technology, workforce, and organizational transformation. Specific areas of expertise include complex program and project management, procurement management, stakeholder engagement and communications, vendor procurement, and oversight. Jon leads the Public Sector General Government Practice area for North Highland.</span></p>
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