Ideas are my medium. The work begins before the object exists.
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The Strategist
Technology Leadership Business Continuity & Resilience
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Simon Stromberg
Curious by nature. Rigorous by training.
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The Artist
I’m an artist driven by ideas more than any single medium.
A pencil, a paintbrush, a camera. These are just ways in. The question always comes first. The material follows.
My practice lives at the edge of meaning, where something familiar shifts slightly, and you find yourself thinking differently about it. I’m drawn to absence, interruption, the gap where your mind becomes active. That’s not a side effect of the work. That’s the work.
The work is not what you see. It’s what happens to you when you do.
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The Artist / Fine Art
Work
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Printmaking
Relief, intaglio, and experimental print
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Figure Drawings
Charcoal, graphite, and ink on paper
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Paintings
Oil and mixed media on canvas
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Sketchbook
Ideas in progress
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Conceptual Projects
Work that begins before the object exists
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The Artist / Photography
Photography has been my longest conversation with light, time, and the world as I find it. A decade of work across portrait, landscape, performance, and the quietly strange moments in between.
See the full body of work at s3photo.com ↗
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The Artist / Writing
Writing
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Get in touch
If something here moved you, made you think, or you want to talk about work — I’d like to hear from you.
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Technology Leadership · Business Continuity & Resilience
I work at the intersection of technology, organizational culture, and enterprise risk. For most of my career that has meant making sure the systems and processes organizations depend on can survive disruption — and that the people running them understand why resilience is a capability, not a compliance checkbox.
I help large enterprises turn business continuity from a back-office function into something embedded in how they work and how they change. That means process mapping, risk analysis, cross-functional leadership, and the harder work of shifting how an organization thinks about its own fragility.
The organizations I’m drawn to are transforming — and ready to see disruption as an advantage rather than a threat.
“Recovery is how we survive. Resilience is why we thrive.” — Simon Stromberg
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Simon Scott Stromberg
Business Process Continuity & Resiliency Leader | Enterprise Risk Mitigation Process Mapping & Standardization | Cross-Functional Program Management | CBCP
Greater Minneapolis–St Paul · simon@simonstromberg.com · linkedin.com/in/simonscottstromberg
Profile
Business Process Continuity and Resiliency Leader with 10+ years enabling global organizations to identify continuity risks across end-to-end business processes, strengthen operational readiness, and accelerate adoption of standardized, harmonized workflows. Known for influencing diverse stakeholders, driving process adoption, and translating complex continuity challenges into clear, scalable, technology-enabled solutions.
Core Skills
Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
Enterprise Resiliency & Risk Mitigation
End-to-End Process Mapping
Process Risk Assessment & Mitigation
Process Standardization & Harmonization
Continuous Improvement (Lean/Six Sigma)
Global Stakeholder Influence & Facilitation
Business Readiness & Change Adoption
Team Leadership & Cross-Functional Collaboration
Strategic Communications
Vendor & Third-Party Management
AI-Driven Transformation
Professional Experience
Wells Fargo2023 – Present · Minneapolis, MN
Lead Technology Business Systems Consultant
Lead business process continuity and technology resiliency activities for critical enterprise processes
Conduct current-state process mapping, dependency analysis, and risk assessments
Facilitate business readiness activities, resilience exercises, and cross-functional alignment sessions
Develop scorecards, risk dashboards, and reporting tools to track mitigation progress
Influence stakeholders to adopt standardized practices and close continuity gaps
Wells Fargo2021 – 2023 · Minneapolis, MN
Lead Tech Resiliency Remediation
Directed enterprise-wide remediation initiatives to reduce continuity and process-level risks
Conducted root-cause analysis and process-gap assessments to define corrective actions
Built and maintained dashboards and scorecards to track risk reduction and progress
Royal Bank of Canada (RBC)2016 – 2021 · Minneapolis, MN
Senior Disaster Recovery Advisor & Manager, US DR Exercise Operations
Led global business process and technology continuity exercises across Capital Markets and Wealth Management
Facilitated process mapping and scenario-based readiness sessions with global teams
Recognized with RBC Annual Performance Award for advancing continuity maturity
These aren't traits I've been assigned. They're convictions I've tested across organizations, roles, and years of formal study. What follows is how I actually work — in my own words, and in the words of people who've worked with me.
Anticipation
I'm not reactive by nature, but I am highly curious. I pay attention to systems, how things connect, where pressure builds, what the current situation implies about the next one. I was an Eagle Scout, which is maybe a cliché, but the instinct to prepare before you need to is genuinely how I'm wired. By the time a problem becomes visible to everyone else, I've usually already been thinking about it.
"As a manager, you hope for someone who can execute; Simon is the rare talent who anticipates. He consistently predicted needs and delivered solutions before I even realized they were necessary."
Mark Silberg · Director, Disaster Recovery and Service Management
Complexity made usable
Complex ideas don't intimidate me, but complexity for its own sake does. I always want to understand the why before the what or the how, because without it the work loses its meaning and the people doing it lose their footing. My instinct is to find the structure underneath a hard problem and make it legible to the people who need to act on it. The work is rarely done alone, and I think the why and the how matter as much as the what.
"Simon has a strong ability to turn complex continuity concepts into clear, practical, and scalable processes that teams actually use."
Tara Wells · Sr. Director, Product Management and AI Enablement, RBC
Integrity as operating system
I don't separate how I work from who I am. My ethics aren't a layer I apply to decisions; they're the starting point. I've found that people can tell the difference, and it tends to matter more to them than I initially expected. I'm not perfect, but being authentic and vulnerable is part of my leadership north star, and I strive to live up to those expectations every day.
"Our conversations were grounded in diligence, curiosity, and a shared commitment to doing things the right way. Simon brings accountability, integrity, and a steady, analytical presence to work that requires both precision and partnership."
Paula Lundeen · Strategic Operating Model Architect, Transformation Enablement
Developing others
I'm genuinely curious about people: how they think, what they're working toward, where they're stuck. That curiosity doesn't turn off when I'm busy. I've been in formal mentor relationships where I walked away having learned as much as I gave, and I think that's exactly how it should work. Development isn't a one-way transfer. The best version of it is two people taking each other seriously.
"While I was titled as the mentor, our meetings have turned into more of a mentor/mentor relationship. I learn as much from Simon as he does from me."
Norbert Hermanson · ACH Product Manager, Wells Fargo
The data, if you want it
CliftonStrengths
Connectedness
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These five themes cluster in the Strategic Thinking domain. Together they describe someone who collects information, connects ideas across domains, sees patterns before they surface, and builds frameworks others can use. Connectedness adds the dimension of purpose: the why underneath the what.
DiSC
C 85%I 78%S 64%D 57%
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The High IC profile describes someone who is both technically meticulous and socially adept. High Conscientiousness drives precision and standards. High Influence means those standards get communicated in ways people actually receive. Low Dominance means leadership through expertise rather than authority.
Myers-Briggs
IIntroverted
EExtroverted
NIntuitive
SSensing
TThinking
FFeeling
PPerceiving
JJudging
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INTP: independently minded, pattern-oriented, and comfortable with ambiguity. High Intuition score (84/100) with a near-equal balance on the Thinking/Feeling axis — analytical capacity paired with genuine awareness of the human element.
Big Five
Openness
86
Conscientiousness
76
Agreeableness
64
Neuroticism
50
Extraversion
31
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High Openness paired with high Conscientiousness is the "disciplined visionary" signature: big ideas with the internal drive to execute them. Lower Extraversion means energy comes from depth of engagement, not breadth of interaction. Moderate Neuroticism translates to calm under pressure.
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Simon StrombergIT Team Lead · Business Continuity and Resiliency · Wells Fargo · CBCP
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Writing
Coming soonFirst post title will appear herePerspectives on resilience, leadership, and why the why matters more than the how.
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