Office of Strategic Consulting

With over 15 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. 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, serving as project lead for the Division of Enrollment Management’s integration of the Student Information System with the Workday enterprise resource planning system. Stacy now serves 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 a master of business administration from Cardinal Stritch University. Stacy graduated from Dale Carnegie Leadership Training in 2017, where she was awarded the Highest Award for Achievement, Dale Carnegie’s top accolade. She is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP), a Professional Scrum Master (PSM), and a Prosci Certified Change Practitioner. Stacy is also a certified Technology of Participation (ToP) facilitator and has earned the Project Management Institute (PMI) Agile Hybrid Project Pro Micro-Credential.