– DONNA KARAN INTERNATIONAL

The Challenge: Facing tremendous opportunity in the marketplace, the company’s internal reality was that it was perilously close to insolvency. The founders controlled the creative process, but the shareholders were demanding accountability. And the board was experiencing frustration while working with the founders to hire a new CEO.

The Process: Sarkady was brought in to be the personal leadership coach for the founder and the chief designer. At the same time, Sarkady began advising board members and other senior executives. The first item of business was to bring the board together as a functioning body.

Concurrently, we convened a cross-functional team of managers inside the company to cut costs and identify areas ripe for re-structuring.  more>>