Experience

The ExCo Group

• Professional Training and Coaching
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Senior Managing Director and Partner

  • Nov 2017 - Present

  The ExCo Group brings an operator’s lens to executive development. Our Mentors are experienced former CEOs and top executives of complex organizations, and each brings a blend of determination, curiosity and humility to the role. Knowing first-hand what it means to lead at the intersection of strategy, operations, culture and market dynamics, our individual and senior team work helps senior leaders accelerate business impact. The ExCo Group brings an operator’s lens to executive development. Our Mentors are experienced former CEOs and top executives of complex organizations, and each brings a blend of determination, curiosity and humility to the role. Knowing first-hand what it means to lead at the intersection of strategy, operations, culture and market dynamics, our individual and senior team work helps senior leaders accelerate business impact.



World 50 Group

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services
• 200 - 300 Employee

• Advising Member

  • Aug 2022 - Present

  As an advising member of Human Resource 50 — World 50’s peer community for leading CHROs at globally respected organizations — I provide ongoing counsel and experience-driven perspective to members as they evolve and adapt their talent strategies and work through business challenges and opportunities. As an advising member of Human Resource 50 — World 50’s peer community for leading CHROs at globally respected organizations — I provide ongoing counsel and experience-driven perspective to members as they evolve and adapt their talent strategies and work through business challenges and opportunities.



Harvard Business Review

• United States
• Book and Periodical Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Author, "THE LEAP TO LEADER: How Ambitious Managers Make the Jump to Leadership"

  • Aug 2022 - Present

  Pub date: August 2023

• Author, "THE CEO TEST: Master the Challenges that Make or Break All Leaders."

  • Oct 2019 - Present

  My co-author is Kevin Sharer, former CEO of Amgen, who has a wealth of wisdom from his experience as a CEO, board director, mentor and lecturer at Harvard Business School.



Columbia University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Advisor to the Reuben Mark Initiative for Organizational Character and Leadership

  • Sep 2019 - Present

  Helping leverage the intellectual capital of Columbia Business and Law Schools to build courses and programming that impart lifelong leadership lessons and teach the mechanics of creating exceptional organizational character. Helping leverage the intellectual capital of Columbia Business and Law Schools to build courses and programming that impart lifelong leadership lessons and teach the mechanics of creating exceptional organizational character.



SHRM

• United States
• Human Resources Services
• 700 & Above Employee

• Articles Editor -- People+Strategy Journal

  • Dec 2021 - Present



The New York Times

• United States
• Newspaper Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• "Corner Office" columnist

  • Mar 2009 - Oct 2017

• Deputy Science Editor for Climate Change coverage

  • Sep 2014 - Sep 2016

• Senior Editor for Features

  • 2011 - Jan 2013

• Deputy National Editor

  • Apr 2010 - Sep 2011

• Deputy Business editor

  • Nov 2006 - Apr 2010



Newsweek

• Internet News
• 300 - 400 Employee

• Business Editor and Senior Writer

  • Dec 2000 - Nov 2006



The New York Times

• United States
• Newspaper Publishing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Business Reporter

  • Jan 1990 - Dec 2000