Will Donovan

Will Donovan is VP, Business Applications at Dynamic Consultants Group (DCG). He has spent over 20 years leading enterprise transformation initiatives across operations, finance, supply chain, and enterprise technology – working directly with CXOs, boards, and ownership groups navigating high-stakes modernization and operational change. To date, he has led more than $135 million in professional services across enterprise transformation, operational modernization, and large-scale technology initiatives.

Before joining DCG, Will worked on large-scale ERP, logistics, and operational transformation initiatives supporting global organizations including Shell and multiple branches of the US military. The environments were complex, high-risk, and operationally demanding which shaped his perspective that enterprise technology only succeeds when operational realities, leadership alignment, and execution discipline are addressed together.

At DCG, Will leads the Enterprise Engagement, Business Enablement, and Innovation Lab practices. He also developed the SPEAR framework - DCG’s enterprise transformation and ERP recovery methodology, built to help organizations regain alignment, stabilize execution and move complex initiatives forward. Most consultants come from software. Will came from operations, from environments where a system failure meant real things stopped working. That background gives him a different read on what’s actually going wrong in a struggling project. Most of the time, it’s not a technology problem. It’s a people and alignment problem. And those don’t get fixed by reconfiguring modules.

Outside of work, Will writes about workplace culture and organizational behavior. He has pretty strong opinions about the difference between companies that actually work well and those that are just good at looking like they do.