Female CEO of the Year Awards 2024

CEO MONTHLY | Female CEO of the Year Awards 2024 4 Business Transformation Advisory CEO of the Year 2024 (Canada): Sara-Mae Amde & CEO Monthly ESG Excellence Award 2024 aragon Digital Consulting was founded in 2005 with the aim of aiding businesses to attract more customers, streamline their processes, and overall enhance their business in order to achieve optimal results. As the marketplace evolves over time, more and more businesses are struggling to adapt their processes in accordance with the latest technologies, emerging trends, and shifts in consumer behaviour. Driven by dedicated professionals, Paragon Digital Consulting promises to act as a partner to its clients’ businesses, leveraging speed, integrity, and purpose to empower them to thrive. Over two decades of operations, the company has grown from solely supporting local businesses to pioneering the market in business acceleration and lending its expertise to organisations of all sizes. Sarah-Mae Amde, Founder of Paragon Digital Consulting, is an award-winning executive advisor, author, and business leader with a proven track record of delivering largescale transformations with sustained business value. Sarah-Mae founded Paragon Digital Consulting with the vision Nov24084 Based in Calgary, Alberta, Paragon Digital Consulting is a business transformation services company comprised of a team of expert Advisors passionate about helping organisations achieve operational optimisation, high employee engagement, and total stakeholder alignment. Renowned for its high quality, tailored solutions, Paragon Digital Consulting is helmed by industry innovator Sarah-Mae Amde, who has been recently named in the Female CEO of the Year Awards 2024. Join us below as we take a closer look at Sarah-Mae’s journey, and how she has driven Paragon Digital Consulting to excellence. P of creating better ways for businesses to grow and leave legacies that stand the test of time and, thanks to her vigilantly perfected approach, has achieved this mission tenfold. For Sarah-Mae, being a consultant is far more than just a career choice; strategic planning and change management are integral components of business management that align entirely with Sarah-Mae’s personality. The entrepreneur thrives when organising and problem solving and has a natural aptitude for steering her team towards success. Combining her passion for neuropsychology, economics, and trade with a specialisation in computer science and business management, Sarah-Mae possesses a unique perspective of the industry, allowing her to consider its many facets. This advantageous position helps her to design clear and effective strategies to innovate, forming the solid foundation of high ROI. Consistently striving for excellence, Sarah-Mae takes immense pride in serving her client partners and helping them to navigate the shifting landscape of the digital marketplace. She believes that the basis of high quality solution design is formed from an expert pairing of a customer-centric perspective and strategic change management. With a focus on making “Change that Sustains”, Sarah-Mae opts to take a strategic and tactical hands-on approach in her consulting that has been meticulously developed throughout the course of her career. An accomplished individual, Sarah-Mae has achieved significant academic success, boasting a range of qualifications and degrees that testify to her prowess. SarahMae has received a G.Cert in Project Management from the Mount Royal University, a G.Cou in Counselling Psychology with a focus on Behavioural and Cognitive Science from the University of California, a G.Dip in Development Economics and International Development from the University of Warwick, and a Master of Business Administration degree in Investment Finance and International Business from the Australian Institute of Business. As the Managing Director and CEO of Paragon Digital Consulting, Sarah-Mae takes an active role in delivering client transformations, facilitating executive coaching, leadership engagement, and building strategies. Alongside managing the daily operations of the business, Sarah-Mae strives to ensure that each client of Paragon Digital Consulting experiences true transformations that stand the test of time. Since founding Paragon Digital Consulting, Sarah-Mae has worked alongside many prestigious companies seeking best-fit strategies tailored to transform their operations via a low-risk, high-value approach to change management. The company has completed successful transformational change management projects for a myriad of businesses, including Dominoes, HR Transformations, Reliance Home Comfort, Nutrien, EY, and Calgary Zoo. The firm’s success is driven by Sarah-Mae’s varied expertise spanning multiple sectors, pinpointing exactly what an organisation requires to thrive in the marketplace. In fact, Sarah-Mae’s expertise has enabled her to take one step further than her peers, introducing innovation to the industry via the recently published book, ‘Cracking the Business Mastery Code: Succeeding in Business in Any Market’. Edited by Brian Tracy, world-renowned business strategist, the book combines invaluable wisdom from the top leaders and entrepreneurs in the market, each providing

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