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Dr. Linda Myers
Global Partner, Human Capital
Over the past two decades Linda Myers has been helping organizations navigate, leverage, and scale solutions for the people-related challenges that can drive or derail business growth in a global economy.
Distinguished by the versatility of her contributions to transforming public, private, and nonprofit companies, Linda has served as internal leader and coach, and external consultant, lecturer, trainer, and public speaker.
Today Dr. Myers and WorldWisePartners colleagues work with global clients to build and sustain sources of strategic global advantage. Partners focus on creating long-term high-value solutions with enterprise stakeholders to enhance shareholder value, delivering human capital performance solutions tailored and unique to each organization. Linda’s strength in culture recreation and realignment involve enterprise-wide change. Executed and measured well, solutions can:
- Mitigate risk and ensure compliance
- Reconfirm, revisit, and underscore corporate culture and values
- Increase employee engagement, skill, efficiency, productivity, and performance
- Enhance customer service satisfaction outcomes
- Lower service and manufacturing costs
- Eliminate duplication of effort and waste
- Expand into new markets
Through jointly identified solutions which include perspective from extensive professional and personal experience corroborated by thought leaders and global experts, Dr. Myers and her team support the delivery of labor skill advantage, not simply labor cost advantage.
INDUSTRIES
Dr. Myers has served the Life Sciences industry (pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, hospitals), Information Technology industry (aerospace, engineering, and telecommunications), Financial industry (insurance, brokerage, and professional services), and Research/Higher Education.
Throughout her career she has been recruited to serve in leadership capacities; head of Human Resources for Bristol Myers Squibb, the head of Change Management for Wyeth, the head of Global Talent for SK Holdings in Seoul, South Korea, the head of Global Human Resources for an affiliate of Johns Hopkins, and has consulted with clients that included AstraZeneca, China Human Resources Group, Munich Reinsurance, Northrop Grumman, PBS, Rockwell International, Sigma-Tau, Sankyo.
EDUCATION
Dr. Myers completed her undergraduate work at Goucher College then both masters and doctorate at Harvard University. She authored and analyzed an original case study describing the intersection of financial and human challenges of global mergers: strategy and due diligence, executive selection and succession, enterprise communication and change management, culture realignment and post-merger integration. To bring current insight to clients, she remains judiciously abreast of global business trends.
BACKGROUND
Linda has been bridging cultures her entire life. Born in New York City to two lip reading deaf adults, she is fluent in American Sign Language, conversant in French, and has lived, worked, studied, and traveled all 7 continents.
IN OTHERS WORDS
“Linda’s powerful capacity to assess business and learning needs, determine solutions, and make tough decisions in complex cross-cultural environments under pressure is rare and is rooted in early personal experience and early exposure to global peers. Her ability to discern talent and accurately assess attitude and fit enables Linda to be rapidly responsive at all levels while driving change. In addition, her coaching abilities, generosity of spirit, and understanding of those aspects of human nature which transcend culture provide an impressive platform from which to develop human capital in a global setting. She is delightful to work with and a generous treasure of knowledge, insight and experience–so critical for any viable global entity.” (Casati)
Linda was exceptional in her attention to the needs of the global MBA interns while tasked with the very difficult goal of helping SK Telecom attempt to integrate global talent into an extremely inward-facing Korea-centric culture.” (Waxman)
Cally Hyun
Global Partner, Coaching, Training and Development
The rich diversity of continents, countries, and cultures to which Ms. Hyun has been exposed complements her language fluency, and drives her refined ability to seek, find, and display quality in all she produces. It is particularly the awareness and persistence of Korean born professionals who have lived and worked, studied or traveled away from their home of origin that is so indispensable. Their ability to anticipate the professional and personal needs of others, especially a foreigner in their culture makes them key individuals for swiftly raising productivity in individuals and teams.
Earlier in her career, Ms. Hyun served Hyundai Research Institute providing consulting, economic research, HRD consulting, and education, all value-added activities to develop training and management of talented workers. As an adviser to individual executives and managers, Ms. Hyun consistently brings innovative insight by maintaining focus on HR priorities that align with and drive business strategy. In her capacity as manager for the Ministry of Employment and Labor, Ms. Hyun facilitated Career Academy programs, training 500 participants and successfully placing 85% of trainees into full time employment. She conducts expat & re-entry training, team enhancement, global competency & leadership and cultural awareness training.
Today as an experienced business coach and Training and Development consultant, she supports human performance solutions that drive companies to build sustainable sources of advantage. Measurable value is created from the investment made in people which includes how human capital is perceived, planned for, engaged, selected, hired, assigned, inspired, led, managed, trained and developed throughout the employment lifecycle.
Born and raised in Seoul, Ms. Hyun earned her Bachelor of Commerce (B.Com.) from University of Sydney focused on International Business, Human Resources Management and Industrial Relations. She is a certified MBTI and BULATS facilitator.
Colleen Harrison
Global Partner, Conflict Mediation, Recruiting, EEO, DEI & Accommodation
Since transitioning to the reserves, Ms. Harrison has earned an Army Reserve Component Overseas
Training Ribbon, a National Defense Service Ribbon, and has twice been the recipient of the Army Reserve
Component Achievement Medal. Her civilian contributions as a consultant have been made in industry,
finance, fundraising, sales and marketing.
Ms. Harrison earned both her Bachelors and Masters degrees at the University of Maryland in Human
Capital Management. Her continuing education in the Army included Recruiting, EEO, Small Group and
Master Conflict Resolution Facilitation, Substance Abuse, and Advanced Human Capital and Financial
Management.
Raj Sinha
Global Partner, Global Rewards and Technology
Raj brings a range of Strategic and Operational experience in Global Rewards, Board Interface, Executive Compensation, Proxy Preparation, Sales Compensation, “Employer of Choice” Planning, Performance Management, HRIS and Shared Services. Having served in both leadership and consulting roles to companies across many industry sectors (Financial Services, Reinsurance/Insurance, Pharmaceutical, and Luxury Retail), Raj brings focus to creating profitable business transformations from mergers and acquisitions, and enterprise-wide re-positioning. His insight will drive and measure your transition every step of the journey from where you are today to where you wish to be. Raj provides services in the following areas:
- Global Rewards: Global Compensation & Benefits
- Corporate Governance & Mergers and Acquisitions
- Global HRIS & Process Excellence, Shared Services
- Financial Analysis & Fiduciary Reporting
- Performance Management & Balanced Scorecard Development
- Global Vendor Management
- Executive & Board Compensation Services
- Individual Coaching & Group Facilitation and Planning
- Global Mobility; Compensating Expats Properly
Raj brings both a charismatic style and global mindset to Global Total Rewards from living and working around the world along with an engaging communication and problem-solving style that is tried and true across multiple cross-cultural environments. He holds Graduate degrees from Fairfield University in Communication, and from New York University in Management, and speaks fluent English and Bengali.
Bruno Falempin
Global Partner, Business Transformation Strategy and Analytics
Currently based in New York City, Bruno Falempin has also lived and worked in France and Italy, the United Kingdom, Spain and Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands, China, India, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and UAE.
BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION
A trusted advisor to C-Level executives, management teams, and private equity investors Mr. Falempin brings an
extensive background leading business transformation in multicultural and highly sensitive regulatory and labor
environments. His multilingual capability in English, French, and Italian adds value to clients who appreciate this
flexibility in their communications.
By aligning the enterprise strategy with its business-driven HR framework, Bruno can identify key programs and metrics
to monitor and drive the effectiveness of the Human Capital transformation. In parallel with monitoring metrics, Bruno
engages and coaches Management Teams to develop the leadership practices and behaviors that power strong
employee engagement and performance. Advising Business Leaders on employee relations, talent and performance
matters is critical to a successful transformation as is managing enterprise communication to ensure top executive
messages are crafted and rolled out effectively.
EDUCATION
Bruno earned his MBA from NYU Stern School of Business, his MSc in Finance from Baruch College, and his Master of HR
Strategic Management from Paris Dauphine University.
Marshal Mills
Global Partner, Diversity, Equity & Inclusion, Organization Design & Operations
EXECUTIVE COACH
Throughout his career Marshall Mills has led organizations, advised clients, and partnered with Boards in the execution of world class organization design and operations. A strategic and innovative high-impact senior leader, Mr. Mills is credited with building best-in-class public and private companies, strong employment brands, and engaged, aligned, and motivated employees who have consistently delivered breakthrough operational and financial performance. He is certified to conduct HOGAN® Leadership Assessments and Executive Coaching, On-Boarding, Development and 360 feedback.
Marshall brings extensive experience with companies along the growth spectrum from emerging companies to complex multi-billion-dollar enterprises. He has served a wide range of clients across two broad industry categories: Life Sciences and Technology/Software/Cloud Computing.
He has held senior global HR leadership roles with Ciba Vision/Novartis Pharmaceuticals, Bausch & Lomb Contact Lens, PSINet Consulting Solutions, and Hewlett Packard, and served as the Chief Human Resources Officer with Baylor Scott & White Health Care System in Dallas. Mr. Mills has served as Principal and Consulting Services Practice Leader with both Ernst & Young and Capgemini Change Management Consulting Practices. He has also served as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and President for Human Capital Management Solutions Inc. an internet-based cloud computing service company providing HR Talent and Performance Management software products and services to Fortune 1000 clients internationally.
Mr. Mills received his undergraduate degree from Northeastern University, completed the Harvard Business School Executive PMD program, the Stanford Graduate School of Business Strategic Human Resource Management Program, and the Columbia Business School Program on Mergers & Acquisitions. Born in London, Mr. Mills has dual United States and British citizenship.
Johannes Zohner
Global Partner, Project, Change, and Knowledge Management
With core capability in Business Process Management and Guiding organizational Change, Johannes Zohner brings strategic and tactical capability with certifications in Project Management, Change Management, Organizational Development and Knowledge Management. The breadth of his formal education and work has been in the European Union (Osram, Sabic, E.ON, Siemens, Rolls Royce, MAN, KVB, Roche, Electrolux) and the United States (General Motors, Xerox Global Services). Elsewhere in the world, professional consulting deployments in South America and the Near and Middle East complement his ability to serve clients in his native German or English, and conversational French and Italian.
EDUCATION
Mr. Zohner holds a Master of Science in Administration and a Master of Sport Sciences. He is credentialed as a Certified Project Management Professional (PMP®), Certified Knowledge Environmental Engineer (CKE) and Registered Education Provider (R.E.P) through the PMI, a global professional organization for project management. His IT skills include Microsoft Office, Microsoft Project Server, SAP FI/CO, and other ERP systems.
INDUSTRIES
Enjoying a robust client portfolio, Mr. Zohner has completed work across the Pharmaceutical, Technology and Energy sectors (Automotive, Aerospace, Manufacturing, Utilities, Oil & Gas) as well as Professional, Public, and Management Consulting Services. In each engagement, typically as the Project portfolio lead, he facilitates establishment of the Project Portfolio Board, and with it, focuses on operationalizing business strategy, prioritizing the use of resources to reduce risk and implement measurable effective outcomes.
CONSULTING & TRAINING
With the Board established, Mr. Zohner builds consensus to prioritize new projects and introduces project controlling. Because each client differs in its requirements and Mr. Zohner possesses broad-based capability, his work may include introducing project management concepts across the enterprise, producing a training strategy for the project managers in the organization, coaching project managers, developing a PM manual, or conducting PM training for line leaders to earn PMI/ PMP certification to PMI standards.
Mr. Zohner enjoys accolades from his clients who attest to the transparency of all projects to the Board of Directors, clarity of business strategy linkage to each project, 97% on time project reporting, and repeat business, on average 30% increase in approval of all new projects post-implementation.
John Buergenthal
Global Partner, Human Capital North America
Throughout his nearly 30 years of experience Mr. Buergenthal has served in various HR roles culminating with his leadership roles at Ameritox, Guilford Pharmaceuticals, and PharmAthene where he oversaw all strategic and tactical HR activities for those companies while building and leading the global talent acquisition function. He has also worked with various organizations in the financial sector, including The Nasdaq Stock Market.
His range of expertise covers developing and delivering products and services in aspects of human resource management including compensation, employee benefits, talent acquisition, performance and employee management, personnel data management, policy and process development, Affirmative Action Planning, merger & acquisition due diligence and integration, and management training.
Mr. Buergenthal’s education includes an MBA in Finance from American University in Washington, DC, and a BBA in Management from the University of Texas at Austin. He also holds a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certification through the Human Resources Certification Institute (HRCI).