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Margie Henry
Consulting

Fractional support for teams navigating complexity, growth, or misalignment.

I help organizations fix breakdowns between product, engineering, data, operations and strategy so execution becomes consistent, measurable, and aligned with strategy.

Product
Roadmaps driven by inputs → Strategy-led prioritization
Data
Metrics that report → Data that drives decisions
Operations
Work managed by people → Repeatable execution system
Strategy
Vision without execution path → Strategy that ships
Engineering
Shifting requirements → Predictable delivery flow
01 — System thesis

The problem behind the problem

Traditional consulting treats symptoms. System design treats the coordination layer underneath them.

Where it breaks

  • • Strategy ↔ execution gap
  • • Competing definitions of truth
  • • Roadmap vs delivery reality
  • • Invisible decision rights

Why consulting fails

  • • Tooling-first thinking
  • • Isolated optimization
  • • Report-heavy delivery
  • • No system ownership

What I optimize for

  • • Coordination clarity
  • • Execution integrity
  • • Shared definitions
  • • System resilience
02 — Operating model

How I read an organization

Every engagement starts by mapping inputs, friction, and levers that shape how work actually moves.

Inputs

Strategy & Goals Organization Structure Data Flows Product Execution Engineering Rhythms

Friction

Misaligned Metrics Invisible Ownership Fragmented Workflows Weak Feedback Loops

Levers

Governance Design & Implimentation Operating Model Design Workflow Restructuring Decision Clarity
03 — Engagement Flow

How work unfolds

Not a linear project. Each phase informs the next — and the cycle repeats as the organization scales.

01

I get called in when

• Roadmaps don’t translate into execution

• Teams disagree on definitions of truth

• Product, engineering, and ops misalign

• Dashboards aren’t trusted

• Interium project leadership is needed to get things back on track

02

How I work

• Map real workflows across teams

• Identify breakdowns in ownership

• Surface hidden dependencies

• Create shared visibility

Case study

Governance Bottlenecks in AI Systems

As machine learning scales inside institutions, governance systems designed for scarcity often become operational bottlenecks that distort research behavior, platform adoption, and institutional trust.

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03

What I do

• Systems diagnosis

• Workflow & System Architecture redesign

• Outcome-oriented roadmap strategy development

Case study

Platform Rearchitecture Under Organizational Constraint

Modernizing legacy infrastructure required balancing technical recovery, organizational coordination, and institutional capacity limitations simultaneously.

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04

What improves

• Reduced cross-functional friction

• Decreased time-to-delivery

• Clear ownership and decission-making

• Prioritization

Case study

Rapid Prototyping as a System for Alignment

How Streamlit was used as a decision-layer prototype tool to reduce misalignment between product, engineering, and a non-technical founder.

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04 — Deliverables

What exists after the work

Working systems the organization can use and evolve.

Operating Models

How decisions, ownership, and accountability are organized across teams

Decision Frameworks

Who decides what, at what threshold, with what information

Metrics & Definitions System

Shared ownership and trust for how data informs decisions

Workflow Redesigns

Cross-functional workflows with clear handoffs and feedback mechanisms

Org alignment map

Where coordination breaks down and how teams should interface

Governance structure

Policies and accountabilities for data, product decisions, and execution

Product Roadmap

Something goes here.
05 — Engagement Types

Levels of Intervention

Structured as depth of system intervention.

Diagnostic

2–4 weeks

Focused on understanding how the system actually operates today.

Workflow mapping Friction audit System breakdown report

System Redesign

4–16 weeks

Rebuild the operating structures that determine how decisions, work, and information flow.

Operating Model Ownership Structure Workflow Redesign Metrics Alignment

Embedded support

Ongoing / Fractional

Ensure systems hold under real execution pressure as the organization scales.

Leadership Alignment Executive Monitoring Scaling Support Project Leadership
06 — Fit filter

Who this is designed for

This work is most useful when the problem lives in the coordination layer instead of a single team or tool.

Good fit ✓
Not a fit ✕
  • • Scaling quickly and org complexity is outpacing structure
  • • Product and engineering are misaligned on priorities or definitions
  • • Roadmaps exist but execution is inconsistent
  • • Data is available but not trusted or used consistently
  • • Leadership has lost visibility into how work actually moves
  • • Optimizing one team in isolation
  • • Pure feature delivery work
  • • No interest in examining decision-making systems
  • • Change without leadership buy-in

Ready to Change to Status Quo?

Let's work together. I'm here to help with product, data and stratefy projects — big or small.