Principal of Veritas Partners
Pearl Meyer Consulting
Elise Walton, Ph.D. (Leadership & Organization Change, New York)
Dr. Elise Walton is a Principal of Veritas Partners, a Pearl Meyer consulting practice focused on leadership, governance and organization effectiveness. Dr. Walton was the founder and executive director of Board Compass, a consulting and advisory firm specializing in corporate governance, strategic organization design, change management and executive leadership. Prior to Board Compass, Dr. Walton was a senior partner at Oliver Wyman and Mercer for over 18 years, where she led major projects and served as the Corporate Governance practice leader. Her recent work includes projects on board assessment, governance and organization design, CEO evaluation and succession planning, and executive leadership development, in both the public and not for profit sectors.
As a published author, Elise’s work includes contributed book chapters, as well as articles in publications such as The New York Times, American Psychologist, The Corporate Board, The Conference Board, Consulting Magazine, Harvard Business Review and Annual Review of Psychology. She has presented at several conferences, meetings, and forums, including those of the National Association of Corporate Directors, Yale Governance Forum, American Bar Association, Conference Board HR Leadership Council, and the Human Resource Planning Society. Dr. Walton has taught in the executive MBA programs of Columbia University, the NYU Stern School and the Yale School of Management. She has serves as a director on the Harvard Kennedy School’s Women’s Leadership Board, YMCA of the Adirondacks, LCE, and beWasteWise.
Representative Clients: AES, AT&T, AXA-Equitable, BMS, Broadway Community Housing, Consumer Reports, Community Access, Comverse Technologies, Fannie Mae, Ford, GlaxoSmithKline, Hewlett Packard, The Hartford, Internap, Jacob Burns Film Center, John Carter Brown Library, Merck, Miller Brewing Company, National Geographic, NPR, Oliver Wyman, Lucent, Pepsi, Phoenix House, Pine Street Inn, Save the Children, Scholastic, SEIC, The State Board of California, Turner Construction, Tyco, TXU, Unilever and Xerox.
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