Executive leadership with Results, on cadence.

Atelier Operations embeds seasoned executive leadership into growing organizations — to transform operations, strengthen supply chains, accelerate profitable growth, and prepare businesses for their next stage of scale.

Johanna Pudda, Founding Partner
Johanna Pudda
Founding Partner and Chief Executive Officer
The Atelier

Fortune 500 experience, now on the side of the companies that need it most.

Johanna has carried more than $300 million in revenue under direct operating leadership — as CEO, Chief Transformation Officer, and global supply chain executive, including senior leadership at Amazon across manufacturing, distribution, and fulfillment networks spanning four continents. She has led 25+ enterprise transformations, restructuring complex organizations, standing up the weekly operating cadences that hold decisions to the P&L, and developing the executive teams that sustain the results.

She works most often with private equity, publicly traded, founder-led, and growth-stage companies — the point where the value-creation plan meets the operating plan and the gap between them becomes expensive.

Atelier Operations is the private practice that followed — an executive office for CEOs, boards, and investors who prefer an operator across the table over a deck across the table.

See Operating Credibility
Executive Experience
Chief Executive Officer
Chief Transformation Officer
Global Supply Chain Executive
Amazon Executive Leadership
Large-Scale Operations Leadership
Multi-Million-Dollar P&L Responsibility
Enterprise Transformation
Private Equity Value Creation
Executive Leadership Development
Selected Transformations

The operating record behind the bio

Anonymized outcomes from in-seat executive engagements. Each one represents a real mandate, a defined timeline, and a measurable change in enterprise value.

PE-Backed Industrial Manufacturer200 days
Situation

A portfolio company with margin compression across a multi-plant footprint and working capital trapped in inventory.

Engagement

Operating turnaround. Rebuilt the S&OP cadence, consolidated suppliers, and reset the plant-floor operating model to the value-creation plan.

Measurable impact
  • 22% EBITDA improvement
  • $14M working capital released
  • 30% throughput increase
Global Consumer Distribution18 months
Situation

A founder-led distributor with a fragmented global network and landed cost erosion in key markets.

Engagement

End-to-end supply chain transformation. Rationalized the network, renegotiated lanes, and installed weekly P&L accountability by region.

Measurable impact
  • 120+ sites optimized
  • 18% landed cost reduction
  • 4-continent footprint aligned
PE-Backed Services Platform12 months
Situation

A growth-stage platform preparing for exit with no formal operating cadence and leadership gaps below the C-suite.

Engagement

Fractional CEO operating partnership. Installed the executive operating system, rebuilt the leadership bench, and ran the board cadence through exit.

Measurable impact
  • $85M revenue under direct P&L
  • 35% inventory reduction
  • Exit readiness 6 months ahead
Services

The operating disciplines that move the number.

Different seat, same standard. Fractional seat. Operating partnership. Every path leads to one deliverable: a stronger business, measured in enterprise value.

01

Fractional CEO

Runs the enterprise on a defined cadence. Direction, decisions, and P&L accountability until the permanent seat is right.

02

Fractional COO

Owns the operating cadence week to week. Throughput, service, and working capital moved on plan.

03

Private Equity Operating Partner

Translates the value-creation plan into an operating plan. Milestones tracked to the investment thesis.

04

Global Supply Chain Transformation

Redesigns plan, source, make, and deliver across the network. Landed cost and service both improving, not trading off.

05

Operations Strategy

Builds the three-year operating plan behind the growth plan. Capacity, footprint, and organization sequenced to enterprise value.

06

Network Optimization

Models where to make, hold, and ship product. Landed cost and service reliability simultaneously improved.

07

Distribution & Fulfillment

Engineers DCs, 3PLs, and D2C fulfillment to demand. Cost-to-serve down, order-to-cash cycle shorter.

08

Manufacturing Excellence

Installs daily management and standard work across plants. OEE, yield, and cost improving on the same cadence.

09

Procurement & Strategic Sourcing

Builds category strategy and supplier leverage. Total cost down and working capital released from payables.

10

Logistics Optimization

Re-engineers mode, lane, and carrier decisions to network reality. Freight cost reduced without service degradation.

11

Digital Transformation

Sequences ERP, WMS, TMS, and planning to the operating plan. Systems that actually adopt and pay back.

12

AI Strategy for Operations

Puts forecasting, planning, and quality use cases into production. Measurable movement in throughput, service, or cost.

13

Business Turnarounds

Takes the seat and stabilizes cash and service in 90 days. Restructured cost base and a credible plan for lenders.

14

Growth Strategy

Sequences capacity, systems, and organization ahead of demand. Unit economics protected as revenue scales.

15

M&A Integration

Runs synergy capture, footprint, and org decisions inside 200 days. One operating model by day 200, not two.

16

Leadership Development

Develops the directors, VPs, and plant leaders who carry the number. Succession clarity and retention of the operators the business needs.

17

Executive Coaching

One-to-one coaching for CEOs, COOs, and GMs on the decisions that move the business. Measurable movement in the executive's own KPIs.

18

Board Advisory

Independent operator perspective in the boardroom. Executive team held to the plan they signed; operating risks surfaced early.

Industries Served

Sectors where operating complexity compounds.

Where complexity is the job, not the exception. Six industries where we've carried the P&L, run the plants, and stood up the networks — the ground our operating perspective is built on.

01

3PL & Fulfillment

Networks of DCs, cross-docks, and carriers engineered so service, cost-to-serve, and working capital move in the same direction.

02

Retail & E-Commerce

Omnichannel operating models that hold margin as orders, SKUs, and channels multiply — from store replenishment to direct-to-consumer fulfillment.

03

Luxury & Consumer Goods

Operational discipline that protects the brand promise — quality, availability, and provenance held to the standard the price point demands.

04

Publishing & Media

Print, digital, and licensing operations tuned for slim margins and unforgiving release cadences — from print runs to platform delivery.

05

Manufacturing & Distribution

Multi-site plant and network operations where throughput, quality, and cost are engineered to compound rather than trade off.

06

Professional Services

Firm operations — utilization, delivery, and the operating cadence that turns partner ambition into a scalable practice.

Why Atelier

An operator — not a consultant.

Operating executive on a factory mezzanine, watching production run to plan.
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Operator

Not a consultant. An executive who has carried the number.

CEO addressing a leadership team around a boardroom table.
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CEO-Level

Leadership that sets tempo across the enterprise.

Aerial view of a global container port at golden hour.
03
Global

Multi-site, multi-continent operating experience.

Hands reviewing a printed operating plan with a pen over KPI charts.
04
Accountable

Measured against the outcomes on the operating plan.

Operating leader walking a warehouse aisle mid-conversation with the team.
05
Embedded

Inside the business, not adjacent to it.

Operator inspecting parts on a running assembly line.
06
Executed

Strategy delivered — not slide-deep.

Results

Outcomes across the operating portfolio.

Aggregated across 15+ years of enterprise operating engagements and current portfolio partnerships.

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Enterprise transformations led
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Revenue under direct operating leadership
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Multi-site operations optimized
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Average EBITDA improvement
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Inventory reduction across engagements
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Supply chain footprint
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