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Our Consultants
Ellen Hart The journey of leadership is one of awareness, insight and action. So is the journey of life. I feel blessed to be able to help leaders lead by enhancing their awareness and insight, as well as their capacity for action. Biography
With over 25 years of management consulting experience, Ellen has worked with executive groups to develop strategies for the future and achieve the alignment necessary for implementation. Her main areas of expertise include leadership alignment, organization design, transformation management, strategy development, and mergers and acquisitions. She has led transformation design programs for executive leadership teams to drive organization-wide change in industries including financial services, chemicals, life sciences, telecommunications, oil and gas, automotive, and consumer products. Her work has touched more than 150 companies worldwide (US, Canada, U.K., France, Switzerland, Denmark, South Africa.) Ellen holds a BA Degree in English Literature from Fordham University, a Masters degree in Counseling Psychology from New York University, and a Ph.D. In Cognitive Psychology from the Institute for Cognitive Studies of Rutgers University. Clients describe Ellen insightful, responsive and creative in her approach to working with executive teams. She is valued for her ability to design processes for tackling complex issues. Clients particularly value her candor, ability to listen and understand, and her practical advice in coaching sessions. In her earlier career she was a college administrator and faculty member, a marketing manager in a PC start up, and a house parent for abused children. Since her days as a faculty member, Ellen has continued teaching and speaking at conferences as well conducting workshops for multiple client events. The topics have included mergers & acquisitions, growth, the challenges of leadership, effective change and transformation, team effectiveness, decision-making, coaching and organization design. Ellen has published many articles on leadership and change and been quoted in publications, including FORTUNE, Across the Board, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, and Management Review. She was formerly on the editorial board of Transformation magazine. She wrote “Strategic Change; Reconfiguring Operational Processes to Implement Strategy,” a chapter in The Portable MBA in Strategy (John Wiley and Sons, 2001). |
