NOVASPARK's mission embodies its name.
NOVA is derived from the Latin word for "new," aligned with its astronomical definition of "a bright star that suddenly appears in the sky and releases powerful energy." Paired with SPARK, defined as "an ignition of energy that comes from deep within and provides joy, purpose, and direction in one's life," we aim to spark your organization's full potential.
Our Team
Shannon L. Ryan
Over the last decade, Shannon L. Ryan has developed an expertise in executive and strategic advisory, leveraging her creative problem-solving skills to ideate, structure, and implement large-scale strategic, operational, and human capital initiatives critical to achieving organizational priorities.
Shannon began her career at Wells Fargo, where she was an investor and credit research analyst for the bank’s $100B proprietary portfolio. She then spent two years at a start-up fintech company focusing on equity research, client advisory, and business development, devising strategies for business growth and developing novel thematic equity strategies and portfolios. Shannon returned to Wells Fargo where she was tapped to build a new team of COOs, serving as COO for the bank’s $100B proprietary portfolio where she led operational and organizational strategies impacting long-range business planning, human capital strategy, and investing policies and procedures. She was also responsible for leading large cross-functional teams for bank-wide strategic initiatives and directing operational and human capital strategies to enable expense reductions, enhanced operating efficiency, and respond to changing business and regulatory environments. As a part of this work, Shannon also devised strategies and implementation for the bank portfolio’s two largest organizational restructurings to-date.
Susan C. Ryan
For more than 30 years, Susan Ryan has been partnering with business and government leaders utilizing her influence, strategic thinking, problem-solving skills, and human resources and communication savvy to help advance the objectives of various organizations across the country. As an entrepreneur herself, Susan understands the growth challenges new businesses face, especially in the areas of devising and executing organizational vision and strategy, human capital planning, and people alignment and performance.
Trust and results are at the center of Susan’s success with her clients. With experience across start-ups and mature organizations, her areas of expertise include business growth and strategy, mergers and acquisitions, human resources consulting, organizational and cultural transformation, change management, public relations, marketing, branding, crisis communications, corporate communications, executive coaching, and DEI&B, among others. This experience crosses many different businesses and industries, which provides for a broad perspective of practices and solutions.