Most recently, Linda was VP, People Development at Hewlett Packard, responsible for establishing and driving the company’s talent management initiative, performance management processes, career development, executive staffing and diversity and inclusion.  In this capacity she launched an executive development process that resulted in key actions to drive a high performance culture. Additionally, she refocused the diversity efforts to be part of the mainline talent management initiatives and embedded them into the core processes of the company.
 
Prior to HP, Linda was with GE and held numerous Senior Human Resource and Talent Management roles.  She established a leadership development effort for GE Capital that became part of the Crotonville offerings and was named a best practice by Jack Welch. She led several key cultural integrations and established a coaching process for executives, developed HR professional as coaches and personally coached many senior leaders.
 
Linda is widely published in the area of leadership development, culture change and executive coaching.  She holds a Ph.D in Organization Development from Benedictine University, MPA from Russell Sage College, and a BA in History from Nazareth College.  She is a past 2 term member of the Academy of Management Board for OD as the scholar practitioner.