About SSG

Victoria Raymont

Victoria Raymont is founder and president of StrategicSolutionsGroup, Inc.  A creative motivator and gifted conceptual thinker, Victoria serves as a highly regarded strategist, skillful facilitator, trusted consultant and coach to senior executives, top management and trustees throughout the United States.  
 
Prior to founding StrategicSolutionsGroup  in 1996, Ms. Raymont began her career as an engineer in the chemical division of one of the country’s leading manufacturers of rubber and specialty chemical products.  Subsequently, she served in senior positions for leading international marketing, training and consulting firms.
 
Victoria advises her clients from concept through implementation on top-level strategic planning/development, organizational change management, effective governance/leadership and results-oriented coaching.  In particular, Victoria brings a keen sense of strategy, context and fit to each assignment and is eager to take a tough-minded look at future scenarios that could help realize an organization’s mission.  Victoria encourages a balanced approach to measurable outcomes, and understands the essential components of an organization’s sustainability required to execute processes which deliver the value proposition and achieve desired financial goals.

Victoria serves as a:

• Guide in the design and execution of a practical, expeditious strategic planning and implementation process
• Diagnostician to assess organizational patterns and recognize the larger context of an organization at three essential levels – strategic (direction), organizational (culture/people) and operational (structure/processes)
• Strategic thinker able to craft and facilitate effective/productive engagements that prompt clarity of purpose, challenge and stretch thinking, place accountability and articulate action action

Ms. Raymont is a graduate of Kent State University where she earned Bachelor of Science degrees (pre-med) in chemistry and zoology.  Victoria also successfully completed the advanced coaching training curriculum from The Coaches Training Institute.  She is a past member of ICF (International Coach Federation), ASTD and the Chicago Organizational Development Network.  Past speaking engagements include The Society for Manufacturers and Engineers, The National Society for Healthcare Foodservice Management, and The Society of National Association Publications.