Friction to Function™

Belle Walker is the Founder and Lead Consultant of Belleview Consulting. The original Organizational Efficiency Engineer, Belle takes clients from Friction to Function™ by aligning structures and processes with strategy.

Prior Career

Prior to full time consulting, Belle spent her career building and optimizing teams. These teams had missions ranging from complex, safety-critical operations to the cutting edge of AI and autonomous driving. Belle honed her skills at multi-billion dollar companies but she has also worked for early stage startups and small, closely held organizations.

At Google, Belle managed the initial Street View vehicle rollout and built a nationwide aerial photography operation. Later, she created the Product Management function for Future Ads and led Marketing and Customer Service for The Plan9 Group.

At HERE Technologies, she built the team responsible for Quality, Efficiency, and Data Operations for the HD maps used by autonomous vehicles. Merging project managers, data scientists, systems engineers, and more, offered ample opportunity for Belle to hone and refine her organizational design and leadership skills. Her work for HERE Technologies also earned Belle a patent for the Quality Index. Simply, the Quality Index allows autonomous vehicles to use digital just like any other sensor in their environmental models.

Education

With a Mechanical Engineering bachelor’s degree from Harvard University and a Systems Engineering master’s degree from the University of Southern California, Belle leverages the engineering problem solving process to design and build the most complex systems possible: those comprised of individuals.

Amanda Richardson an experienced leader who has co-founded and led two non-profits: a U.S.-based international women’s land rights organization and a NJ-focused media organization. A lawyer by training with degrees from Amherst and Columbia Law School, she has been working to improve the social and economic rights of women since 2008. Amanda focuses on community engagement, capacity development, and human rights. She has extensive research, program design/analysis, project management, public policy, and event coordination experience.

Denise has worked for 14 years in the administrative support field. Her experience is broad with an emphasis on Project and Event Management, Social Media and Email Marketing, Research and Proofreading. She makes business owners’ lives easier and more productive (including Belle’s). She takes pride in being dependable, having a proven history of successful leadership, strong organizational skills, and attention to detail. Denise lives in California with her husband and children. She enjoys taking walks with her two yellow labs.