John Frehse

John Frehse is a senior managing director at Ankura in New York and has more than 20 years of experience focused on labor and operations strategy. He has developed and implemented strategies for more than 100 companies, and he delivers to corporate leaders innovative labor solutions that incorporate solutions to employee needs. His work has spanned a wide range of industries, including food and beverage, automotive, chemical, electronics, pharmaceuticals, power, call centers, banking/insurance, distribution, telecommunications, mining, government and health care. Before joining Ankura, Mr. Frehse was a founding partner of Core Practice LLC, an international labor-strategies firm. Prior to that, he was head of Global Strategic Services Sales for Blue Pumpkin Software, now known as Verint.His clients included the manufacturer of automobile driveline and drivetrain components and systems, a multinational food manufacturing and processing conglomerate, and a Canadian telecommunications and media company. Mr. Frehse sits on the board of The Workforce Institute and is a thought leader forits think tank. He is also a member of the advisory board for HR.com’s Workforce Management practice, where he educates management teams on union negotiation strategies and employee engagement methodologies. Mr. Frehse’s professional experience includes labor strategy development for an American specialty storage and organization products retail chain on warehouse and distribution operations; there structuring of a Canadian telecommunications and media company’s contact center operations, which reduced turnover by more than half in the first year and captured more than $10 million in labor savings in the first year; labor and advisory work for several multinational food-manufacturing and processing conglomerates; labor strategy development for various mining operations globally; and cost-reduction and performance improvement for one of the largest American department store retail chain’s contact center operations. He received his B.A. from Wake Forest University.