One of the IBM-ers involved, executive consultant Chris Fickenscher, compares the overhaul with IBM's own remodeling under Louis Gerstner.
Mark Musselman, an executive consultant for McGhee Productivity Solutions, in Denver, says one senior executive he coached was so frustrated after trying to learn a new system that "he was ready to throw up his arms and stop doing it" after a month.
John Mariotti is an internationally known executive, consultant and award-winning author.
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Spicer, President and CEO of Quantum Level Success, and a 25-year senior-level executive and consultant, has some powerful career claims to backup her unusual-yet-familiar strategy.
Amador, 51, a clinical psychologist, has also built a career as an author, executive coach and consultant with a slew of corporate and government clients.
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He is considered a world expert in the field of leadership development, and is a highly respected and sought after speaker, consultant and executive coach.
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In a statement, the BBC said Ms Granger was "an experienced expert in human resources issues" who, for the past four years had worked as a consultant and executive coach with a "range of public and private sector clients".
Notch Partners, a consultant that identifies executive talent for the private-equity industry, helped vet the candidates for the list.
The unnamed Quadrangle executive met with the political consultant in December 2003 to talk about an investment from the retirement fund and other pension funds.
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In New York or Boston you can thrive as a nonprofit executive, high-end consultant or financier, but if you are the owner of a business that wants to grow you're out of luck.
"So the incumbents benefit and that means independents, " says Shatzkin, founder and chief executive of Idea Logical, a consultant to publishers.
With more pay linked to performance targets, some investors are turning their attention to the rigor of the targets, says Robin Ferracone, chief executive of Farient, the pay consultant.
Nancy Tellem, who left her role as consultant to CBS chief executive Leslie Moonves to join Microsoft as president of entertainment and digital media, has been busy explaining to Hollywood movie and television studios the opportunities that Xbox 360 and Kinect open up for consumers.
In the TechRepublic story, the consultant managed to add macros to a Word document in a Dropbox that an executive used and once the document was opened the macros allowed the consultant to take over the PC.
Cremeans also lost his consultant, former Christian Coalition executive director Ralph Reed, earlier this year because of disagreements over strategy.
Del Toro has been working as a consultant at DreamWorks and gets executive producer credit on the upcoming Kung Fu Panda 2 as well as on Puss in Boots.
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"He was obviously very ambitious, and he wanted, I think, to be in political control of Russia during Yeltsin's time, and that didn't work out for him, " said Stuart Loory, a former Turner Broadcasting System executive vice president, who was a consultant to Berezovsky during the 1990s.
Most boards appointing a new chief executive will seek the advice of a pay consultant, who will tell them the going rate.
Kirshner has been joined throughout the process by co-executive producer Mark Squier, a veteran political consultant who worked on Howard Dean's 2004 presidential campaign.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Antonia Apps said Fortuna's immediate cooperation and agreement to engage in hundreds of consensually recorded calls and meetings with friends and colleagues played a crucial role in the convictions of hedge fund consultant Danielle Chiesi and former IBM executive Robert Moffat.
In 1994 Bob Holland, a former consultant at McKinsey, took over as chief executive from Mr Cohen (who along with Mr Greenfield remains at the company as a senior director).
"A lot of the doctors are confused as well, " says Dr. Wulf Utian, executive director of the North American Menopause Society and a consultant in obstetrics and gynecology at the Cleveland Clinic.
According to Tom Wertheimer, a former executive vice president of MCA and now a part-time consultant to NBC Universal, a reuse is a reuse is a reuse to the Writers Guild.
The International Year of Biodiversity competition was judged by Diana Garnham (Chief Executive, the Science Council), Felix Pepler (Creative Education Consultant) and Leo Vincent (UNESCO Associated Schools in the UK).
"The Monforts have a strong backbone and a consistent approach to build from within, " says industry consultant Bernie Mullin, who served as a senior Rockies executive during the club's early years.
In 1966 the former slumdweller in suburban Pasay, who put himself through college, became a consultant to Rafael Salas, one of the most admired executive secretaries, who served in the early Marcos years.
Interestingly, the drugmaker has reportedly hired a consultant to search for up to two new non-executive directors to replace incumbents who are likely to retire at the next annual general meeting, which is scheduled for May, according to The Telegraph, which writes that the search is believed to be part of a wider process to revive a board that includes 12 non-executive directors.
After subsequently serving as executive director for a national nonprofit, Gerry now works as an independent consultant on marketing procurement.
Ms. Kennedy will serve as executive producer on new Star Wars feature films, with George Lucas serving as creative consultant.
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