Executive perspective grounded in real-world delivery.
Esper Strategic Partners was founded on a simple belief: organizations deserve an experienced advisor whose only agenda is helping leadership make the right decision and achieve the right outcome.
Christopher Esper
Founder & Managing Partner
- Nordic Global
- Optimum Healthcare IT
- Collaborative Solutions / Cognizant
- Huron Consulting Group
- Sierra-Cedar
- Deloitte
- Oracle
- Gallaudet University
Christopher Esper is an enterprise strategy, technology, and transformation executive with more than 25 years of experience advising organizations, leading complex programs, building consulting practices, and managing strategic client relationships.
His career spans executive leadership, enterprise software, ERP strategy, Workday, Oracle and PeopleSoft, program delivery, business development, and organizational transformation.
Christopher has advised CIOs, CFOs, CHROs, provosts, institutional presidents, and other senior leaders on enterprise strategy, platform modernization, implementation governance, operating-model transformation, and program risk.
He is known for translating complex issues into clear executive choices, creating alignment among diverse stakeholders, and bringing structure and momentum to high-stakes initiatives.
Experience earned across every seat at the table.
Internal enterprise applications leader
Responsible for systems, teams, vendors, and organizational outcomes.
Consultant and program leader
Responsible for strategy and implementation across complex programs.
Commercial leader
Responsible for structuring and winning major engagements.
Practice executive
Responsible for delivery quality, talent, growth, utilization, and profitability.
Independent advisor
Responsible for challenging assumptions and protecting client interests.
Outcomes from leadership roles spanning strategy, delivery, and commercial growth.
- 01Secured and supported a $50M, four-year flagship enterprise transformation engagement
- 02Built a $6M enterprise pipeline from zero within six months
- 03Quadrupled the revenue of a new practice in under three years
- 04Managed services portfolios exceeding $50M
- 05Led or supported more than 15 enterprise ERP implementations
- 06Built enterprise technology and transformation practices from the ground up
- 07Improved delivery margin, utilization, client satisfaction, and retention
- 08Led cross-functional teams across strategy, design, integrations, reporting, testing, data conversion, and change
- 09Built training and onboarding programs achieving 100% certification pass rates
- 10Maintained 100% retention of key team members through a major corporate acquisition
Trained, certified, and continuously practicing the craft.
- Workday Engagement Manager / Project Management
- Workday HCM Core
- Workday Advanced Reporting
- Workday Student Recruiting and Admissions
- Certified Scrum Master
- IMA implementation methodology
- Bachelor of Pharmacy, University of the Sciences in Philadelphia
"The most important transformation question is not are we busy? — it is, are we making the right decisions, controlling the right risks, and creating the value we originally intended?"
That question is often difficult to answer from within a large program. My role is to help leadership see the transformation clearly—without unnecessary complexity, without vendor bias, and without allowing activity to substitute for progress.