Anna Lee Van Watermeulen

With two decades of manufacturing business operations experience, Anna brings a unique perspective to business process optimization. She has worked in multiple disciplines, including marketing, sales, operations, and product management. Anna knows the importance of cross-functional teamwork to make businesses thrive and harness improvement. Anna loves challenges and has carved her way through her career by taking business case problems head-on, fixing and optimizing, and then jumping to the next. Her liberal arts education taught her to understand and interpret vast bodies of information, distill them down to their most important components, and then transfer those components in a digestible way to others.
AREAS OF EXPERTISE
- Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Sales Process Optimization
- Sales Marketing Strategy
CERTIFICATIONS AND AWARDS
- BA in History from UW-River Falls
- MA in Literature from University of St. Thomas
- Certificate – Digital Marketing Fundamentals – University of St. Thomas
- Certificate – Building a Digital Marketing Strategy – University of St. Thomas
- Certificate – ISO 9001 Auditor
- OMG & STAR Certified
WE’RE HERE TO HELP
As those who have run technical product and service businesses, we understand you’re already strapped for time and pressed for growth and execution. The Next Step, Inc. brings a team of battle-tested, driven simplifiers who are wired for problem-solving. Our motto is pretty simple: No homework for the customer and one less problem to solve.
What business problems do you need help with? We’ll deliver the results. Contact us today.