I am an accomplished executive with 23 years of global experience in professional services and higher education, and a deep subject matter expertise in senior executive performance and corporate governance effectiveness.
Since 2016, I have held leadership roles at Russell Reynolds Associates, a large, global consultancy. I currently run our Talent Accelerators and Executive Education business, supporting the personal and professional growth and development of executives and corporate directors around the world. I moved into this role after spending four years as the chief operating officer of our global Board and CEO Advisory Partners practice, and prior to that launching and leading the firm’s Center for Leadership Insight, where I held responsibility for all our research, insight development, and publication activities around the world. In the decade-and-a-half prior to joining Russell Reynolds, I ran an executive development business affiliated with Harvard Business School, provided corporate board advisory services to blue chip clients, and served as an advisor to senior leaders across the US Department of Defense and US Intelligence Community member agencies.
My business writing has appeared in Harvard Business Review, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance, Information Management, SmartBrief, Training Industry, and Workforce Magazine, among others.
In addition to my corporate career, I am also a historian and freelance writer who predomiantly focuses on the history of aerospace and defense, intelligence, and national security organizations, and the people who work for and lead them. I have been published in the US Naval Institute Proceedings, Strategy Bridge, War on the Rocks, and by the United States Central Intelligence Agency, which awarded me their Studies in Intelligence Award in 2015. My first book, The United States Naval Institute Guide to Mentorship, was published by the Naval Institute Press in 2017. I serve as Editor-in-Chief of H-Business, the Business History Conference presence on Humanities and Social Science Online, and as an annual meeting reviewer for the Management Consulting and Management History divisions of the Academy of Management.
I hold an undergraduate degree in business from Bentley University, graduate degree in history from Harvard University, and in 2027 will complete my doctorate at Northeastern University, where my dissertation reserch examines how college and university presidents go about the process of creating their institutional strategy. In addition to my formal education, I have completed executive education at The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Oxford University.