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Your Choice for Trusted Technology Procurement Advisors

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What We Do

Sourcing Technology is becoming more complex and challenging!  Contracts, negotiations & supplier management is becoming more difficult.  IT and Tech Sourcing Professionals are Overworked and Under-resourced. LeadStrength provides Traditional Consulting and Staffing, and what is unique is our Trusted Advisor Model

LeadStrength Partners is a Trusted Advisor Model which provides value through free:

1) Advisory & Strategy Calls with Technology Procurement Experts who have deep Procurement knowledge

2) Supplier Identification and Scope Development Support from a growing number of technology market experts

3) Access to an IT Marketplace Portal designed for your company with over 900 solutions! 

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Consulting and staffing services are dedicated to helping your business achieve better outcomes and financial results.

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All-in-one Platform for Procurement Spend Management and Workforce Identity

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A comprehensive solution for smarter SaaS spending and management

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Procure, Deploy, manage, and retrieve your global workforce's devices.  End user and network solutions

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Network management and monitoring platform, with a team of NOC analysts acting 24/7/365.

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Agentic AI Development Platform to easily create & manage custom AI agents

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Cloud Infrastructure solutions that are vendor-agnostic with experts to guide you

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Communicate virtually, reliably anytime, anywhere. solutions that are vendor-agnostic with experts to guide you

Our team is made up of former Technology Leaders who have deep experience managing large portfolios of IT Spend (>$500M annually). We are passionate about Digital Transformation, Strategic Sourcing, SaaS, Cloud, Telecom, Networking and Driving Efficiency and Savings.  

Our Trusted Advisor Model is free and is delivered via a cadence of short video calls, which consist of mentoring and strategic discussions, which are guided by our Technology Wheel. We regularly incorporate free project specific consults with our bull pen of Technology Experts, who cover the full IT taxonomy.  

Our IT experts help build scope, identify challenges and short list suppliers who most align with the clients need. We remain vendor agnostic and support the negotiations of the buyer.  We tap deep relationships with over 900 IT, Cloud, Software and Telecom suppliers, allowing us to solve complex technology challenges quickly.  

Clients benefit from free Sourcing and Technology advice and our comprehensive Portal, which streamlines sourcing, saves money and  mitigates vendor sprawl. 900 providers can be sourced and invoiced via 1 Portal, 1 Contract and 1 Consolidated Invoice. 

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From Our Interim Managing Director

I have partnered with leadership, stakeholders and suppliers over 20 years to ensure corporate objectives are realized.  LeadStrength Partners provides professionals who understand your technology, contracting, procurement and the financial challenges in businesses.  We have deep experience and creating realistic strategies, reducing overall technology costs, driving EBITDA improvement and creating future cost protections while focusing on maximizing the supplier value.

We are known by colleagues as a team who is dedicated, passionate and is always looking to do what’s right for your company, peers and stakeholders. Let's connect and see what LeadStrength Partners can do for you.  

Andrew Russell, C.P.M.

Contact Me:

grow@leadstrength.com

Consulting Engagement Types:

- Short Blocks of Consultancy
- Part-Time Engagements (1-4 Months)
- Temporary Placement (3-12 Months)
- Contract to Hire

Fees:

Consultancy Blocks: $120-175 per hour, 25% billed upon signing
Part-Time Staffing Engagements: $80-$130 per hour, Min. 10 hr/week
Temporary / Effort Block Placements: Custom Agreed Pricing
- Contract to Hire: Custom Agreed Pricing Starting from $90/hour

Our team or individuals are available for large (multi-month) and small projects (hourly/weekly engagements).

Current Available Staff Resources:

- Principle Consultant - Technology Contracts and Strategy. 40 hours/week. Consulting, Contract, Permanent Placement or Projects. 20+ Years including Director Level Experience.

- Principle Consultant - Technology Contracts - 15-20 hour/week. Consulting, Contract or Projects.  25+ Year Experience. J.D. and C.P.M. 

- Principle Consultant - Indirect Procurement and Technology Contracts, both cGMP/non-GMP.  40 hours/week. Consulting, Contract, Permanent Placement or Projects. 20+ Years including Director Level Experience.20+ Years Experience. Multi-lingual.

- Principle Consultant - Technology Sourcing/Procurement. 20-32 Hours/week. Consulting, Contract, Permanent Placement or Projects.  15+ Years including Executive Experience.

- Principle Consultant - Indirect Procurement and Technology Contracts.  40 hours/week. Consulting, Contract, Permanent Placement or Projects. 20+ Years including Director Level Experience. Bilingual - Spanish.

Who We Work With

  • C-Suite Leaders (CIO, CPO, CFO)
  • Procurement & Global Technology Teams
  • Compliance, Legal, Risk and Financial Professionals
  • Business and Technical Leaders.
  • The Best Team Members


Our Specialties
  • Technology Procurement and Vendor Management Strategy
  • Complex Contracting & Negotiations
  • Supplier Selection & RFX Management
  • IT Software & Audit Management
  • IT Leadership and Team Training


Our Expertise

  • Global/Regional Sourcing - SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, AI, Enterprise Software, Hardware,
    AV & Telecom 
  • Supplier Value & Innovation Initiatives
  • Cost Reduction Initiatives 
  • IT BPO
  • Agile Implementation for Enterprise SW

Boards / Certifications / Affiliations

  • ProcureCon IT Conference Advisory Board and Faculty (2014-2025)

  • Procurement Foundry

  • Institute for Supply Management CPSM and C.P.M. 

  • Sourcing Interest Group (SIG)


Speaking Engagements
  • ProcureCon IT Speaker and Panelist. Various IT Procurement Topics (2015 – 2025)
  • Sourcing Interest Group (SIG) |Spring Global Executive Summit – Keynote Panelist (2024)
  • Various Internal Leadership & Stakeholder Trainings on negotiations and vendor management

Examples of Enterprise Suppliers Managed

BPO/ITO/Consulting:  Accenture; Anglepoint; Atos/Syntel, Inc.; Capgemini; CenturyLink; Cognizant; Deloitte; Directions in Microsoft; Fruedenberg IT (FIT); Fujitsu; Gartner; Hitachi; HCL; Infosys; InfoTech; KPMG; Mindtree; SAP; Strategic Solutions, Inc. (SSI); Tata Consulting Services (TCS); Visionet; others

ERP:  Oracle; SAP; Microsoft Dynamics

SW/HW/Cloud: Adobe; AWS; Azure; Black Box; BMC Remedy; CA Technologies; Ceridian; Citrix; Dell; Druva, EMC; Flexara; Hewlett-Packard Enterprise (HPE); HP Inc.; IBM; iCertis; Iron Mountain; JDA Software; Microsoft Dynamics; Microsoft EA, SA, & O365; Mulesoft; NetApp; Nutanix; Palo Alto Networks;  Pega; Pure Storage; RedHat; Rimini Street; Salesforce; SAP Ariba, Concur and SuccessFactors; ServiceNow; Snow Software; Splunk; Tangoe; Tibco; VMWare; Workday; Zycus; others

Network /Telecom/ VOIP: AT&T; Calero; CenturyLink; Cisco; Equinix; Sakon; Tangoe; T-Mobile, Verizon

Professional Services: Kelly Services; Randstad; Beacon Hill; Insight Global; Modis; Teksystems; USTech Solutions; others

VAR/GPO: CDW; SHI; Presidio; Ergo; Virtuit; Insight Direct; and CoreTrust GPO