Lynne Morton
Senior Global Advisor | New York, NY, USA
Lynne Morton is an organizational change or effectiveness consultant and executive coach. She is known for creatively addressing issues of leadership identification and development, performance or succession management, talent management, and communications. She was the recipient of the HR Leadership Award 2009.
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Highlights
- 25 years of management consulting and executive coaching across industries and geographies.
- President of Performance Improvement Solutions, founded 2001.
- Former Director, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Vice President, Quality at Marsh & McLennan Cos.
- Former COO, Talentscope.
- Developed and delivers FUSIONCoaching™for High Potential Women.
- Designed and implemented talent management strategies and processes (identification of high potentials, development of leadership capacity and capability, succession mgmt.).
- Conducted/published seminal research on talent management.
- Published extensively on leadership development and talent management issues.
- Some significant clients include AstraZeneca, Cengage, Dell, Deloitte Consulting, Navistar International Truck & Engine, John Hancock Financial Services, Texas Instruments, The Conference Board and WoltersKluwer.
Accomplishments
- HCI: Co-developed and taught first curriculum for talent management professional certification.
- Cengage: Developed and delivered 12 module Leadership Behavior course; consistently rated among top 100 offered globally.
- Navistar: Redesigned High Potential/Leadership identification and succession planning processes; developed tools for HR and line managers.
- PwC: Created competency models and strategic staffing model for post-merger consulting practice.
- Seabury & Smith/Marsh & McLennan Cos.: Structured performance improvement initiatives and process improvement teams that achieved 40-50% performance improvements.
Competencies
StrategicStrategic Planning Integrated Talent Management Strategies Vision/Value Definition Change Management Organizational Design & Effectiveness Global Diversity/Mindset |
FunctionalCompetency Design/Management Performance Management Leadership/Executive Development High Potential Identification Organizational Design Retention,Engagement, Succession Management Human Capital business value |
TechnicalMS Powerpoint Internet research Blogging Webcasts |
Publications
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HRinsights-Talent Management-Why Develop High Potential Women Differently | February 2011
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How to Build an Integrated Competency Based Approach? | April 2007
Credentials
- Recipient of HR Leadership Award at World HRD Congress, Mumbai, 2009
- Recipient of Best of HR Award, Expatica, 2005
- Certifications: Lominger Career Architect™, DiSC™assessment and WTRI’s Profiler™
- Currently completing Executive Coaching certification process
- Former Member, Board of Examiners (1997 & 1998), Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
- M.A. from Georgetown University (1975)
- B.A. with honors from Vassar College (1974)
