Office of Strategic Consulting

With over 20 years of experience in program and project management, business analysis, and operations management, Stacy Smith first joined the Office of Strategic Consulting as a senior project manager in 2019. During this time, she served as the human resources workstream project lead for the Administrative Transformation Program. Stacy stepped away for a year, pursuing an opportunity to spearhead the implementation of enterprise-wide program and portfolio management practices within the Wisconsin Judicial System and the Wisconsin Supreme Court. Once those practices were implemented, she returned to her senior project manager role at UW–Madison, serving as project lead for the Division of Enrollment Management’s integration of the Student Information System with the Workday enterprise resource planning system. In 2022, Stacy took on a new challenge, stepping into her current role as the associate director of strategic initiatives.

Over the course of her career, Stacy has led program, project, and business analysis efforts for several large organizations, including Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Services, American Family Insurance, SSM (Dean) Health, and WPS Health Solutions. 

Stacy earned her bachelor’s degree in communication science and rhetoric from UW–Madison, as well as an MBA from Cardinal Stritch University with a focus on strategic operations management. Stacy graduated from Dale Carnegie Leadership Training in 2017, where she was awarded the Highest Award for Achievement, Dale Carnegie’s top accolade.

Stacy holds certifications as a Certified Professional Managing AI (PMI-CPMAI), Portfolio Management Professional (PfMP),  Project Management Professional (PMP), Professional Scrum Master (PSM), Prosci Certified Change Practitioner, and certified Technology of Participation (ToP) facilitator. She also earned the Agile Hybrid Project Pro Micro-Credential from the Project Management Institute.