About Kate

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Kate Piontek has 20 years of experience working for small businesses and nonprofits throughout California. She has an MBA in Sustainable Enterprise and prior to launching P3 Strategy, she served on the Executive Team for several organizations where she oversaw and led the strategy for the finance, operations, and human resource departments.

Accomplishments + Past Projects

People

  • Organization redesign & deployment of staffing & resources against mission critical objectives

  • Project Management to ensure & secure top talent (Executive level searches)

  • Lead the team building strategy to unite Executive Teams

  • Talent management strategy & execution against the strategic plan

  • Designed & launched programs that distributed over $1.2M directly to agricultural workers

Planet

  • Led the strategy and oversaw the execution of Sonoma County’s commitment to become the first 100% certified sustainable wine region in the United States. 

  • Secured a partnership with the California Land Stewardship Institute, launching a Climate Adaptation Certification for Sonoma County.

  • Set the pricing strategy for both educational and agricultural programs

  • Secured the trademark, designed, and managed the program for the Sonoma County Sustainably Farmed Grapes logo, a sustainability logo for wineries to use on their wine labels.

Profit

  • Creating and managing organizational budgets ranging from $1M - $35M

  • Restructuring the chart of accounts & financial reporting to provide further clarity on which divisions/cost centers are generating profit and/or deficit

  • Forecasting and building financial models for scale

  • Creating reserve targets, policies and investment policy statements

  • Securing and managing debt & cash management

 Awards and Volunteerism

In 2018, Kate was selected as a North Bay Business Journal Forty under 40 Award recipient. She has served on the Board for both the Santa Rosa Metro Chamber and Earth Team was also a member of both organization’s Finance Committees. Additionally, she served on the Steering Committee and as a judge for the CA Green Medal Awards for over 5 years.