Executive Forum with Chris Roark, Senior Managing Director for Accenture

The Executive Forum is open to the public, as seating permits, and provides opportunities for the exchange of ideas and discussion of topics and issues facing business and management.

Chris is a Vice Chair of the Reinvention Executive Advisory.  He joined Accenture in 2001.  Accenture’s Reinvention Executive Advisory Vice Chairs partner with CEOs and their top teams at leading companies worldwide to help them architect their success and that of the organizations they lead.  They build executable strategies and work hand-in-hand with clients to deliver results.  They bring deep industry knowledge as well as leading capabilities in strategy, technology, and organizational performance.  Their approach and reinvention mindset is producing breakthrough results for the world’s leading companies.

Chris is a Chicago-based Senior Managing Director responsible for Accenture’s Industry & Process capabilities in the Americas.  He previously led Accenture’s Americas Strategy Practice and global Accenture’s Cost & Productivity capabilities.  Chris works with management teams and boards of directors to drive enterprise value through growth strategies, operating model designs, and structural cost and productivity resets.

Chris is the co-author of "The Big Zero" and several thought leadership pieces related to growth, cost and productivity.  Chris holds an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University.