Beth McCarthy leads Propeller’s Digital Transformation PMO at the intersection of people, process, and technology. With 18 years of experience helping organizations turn complexity into clarity, Beth brings a systems thinker’s lens to transformation, one that recognizes the right tools only go as far as the people, processes, and culture behind them. She believes the hardest part of transformation isn’t the technology. It’s building the trust, clarity, and adoption that make new ways of working last.
Before joining Propeller, Beth served as a senior process transformation leader at The Boston Beer Company, where she partnered across Finance, IT, Supply Chain, Innovation, and Commercialization to design and lead cross-functional process transformation initiatives. Her work included redesigning how production data was created and maintained across three breweries, improving how customer orders were fulfilled and revenue recognized, rebuilding the end-to-end innovation process following the Dogfish Head merger, and laying the groundwork for how the company would request, approve, and pay for goods and services across every part of the business. Each initiative required bringing the right people together, clarifying roles and ownership, and designing processes that worked for the people doing the actual work. Earlier in her career, Beth led multi-million dollar finance software implementation projects at Peloton Group and Hitachi Consulting, building the technical fluency that allows her to work fluidly across business and engineering teams.
Beth holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Bentley University, a PMP certification, and an IDEO Collaborative Leadership Certificate, a combination that reflects her belief that great transformation work is equal parts rigor and human-centered design.
Fun fact: Beth is an oil painter, which, it turns out, is excellent training for knowing when to add detail and when to let the big picture speak for itself.