Shannon Gabriel

Shannon Gabriel is a Vice President at Competitive Business Solutions, where she leads Organizational Performance & Transformation initiatives focused on aligning leadership, workforce strategy, and operational execution to accelerate business performance.

With more than 20 years of experience, Shannon specializes in helping organizations navigate operational transformation, workforce instability, leadership transition, organizational redesign, and large-scale business change. Her work combines hands-on transformation leadership with deep expertise in organizational effectiveness, talent strategy, operational performance, and change execution across complex manufacturing and operational environments.

Shannon has led numerous transformation initiatives supporting operational turnarounds, post-acquisition integration efforts, workforce stabilization programs, leadership restructuring, and continuous improvement deployments. She works closely with executive leadership teams to improve organizational alignment, strengthen leadership capability, stabilize operations, and implement scalable performance management systems that drive measurable business outcomes.

Throughout her career, Shannon has partnered with global organizations across North America, Europe, and Latin America, supporting multinational transformation initiatives and cross-functional leadership teams within complex operational environments. Her experience spans consumer products, industrial manufacturing, life sciences, and other operationally intensive industries.

Prior to joining CBS, Shannon advised clients on transformation and workforce-related challenges including leadership team build-outs, labor and workforce strategies, recruiting and onboarding redesign, and enterprise-wide operational improvement efforts designed to support rapid growth, integration, and long-term scalability.

Shannon has played a key leadership role in transformation initiatives that delivered significant operational and organizational performance improvements through workforce stabilization, leadership alignment, and talent process transformation. Her work has contributed to doubling manufacturing output within three months, improving productivity by 40%, increasing equipment uptime from 50% to 90%, reducing employee turnover from 40% to 15%, filling critical labor gaps, and contributing to more than $5 million in margin improvement as part of broader cross-functional transformation efforts.

Known for her pragmatic and collaborative leadership style, Shannon partners closely with client teams to drive sustainable transformation, improve execution discipline, and build long-term organizational capability.

If you want to discuss how CBS can support your business, feel free to contact Shannon directly.