Robert M. Galford

Robert Galford is a managing partner of the Center for Leading Organizations (CLO). He divides his time across teaching at Executive Education programs and working with senior executives at the world's leading firms on the leadership issues that lie at the intersection of strategy and organization. He has taught on the Executive Programs at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business, the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University, and most recently Harvard University.

Anne Seibold Drapeau

Anne Seibold Drapeau is a managing partner of the Center for Leading Organizations. Her client work focuses on consulting with a wide range of clients on leadership development and frameworks and processes for strategic alignment. She is a leading voice on the leadership requirements of support functions within organizations, and how they are best organized, structured and managed. She also has particular interest in the leadership challenges of early stage businesses and in fostering leadership in women.

Catherine Braun

Catherine Braun is a principal with CLO. Catherine has extensive experience in strategic planning and the motivational and communications issues inherent in strategy alignment.

Philip Holland

Philip Holland is a principal with CLO. Phil has experience as a program manager, lead designer, and facilitator of various engagements, His specialty is in learning and performance improvement processes.

Kate Sweetman

Kate Sweetman is a professional affiliate with the Center for Leading Organizations. Kate is an experienced leadership consultant, educator, author, editor, and speaker. Her coaching and consulting work has ranged from helping to shape more effective senior leaders and management teams in global corporations to supporting entrepreneurs in developing countries launch and grow their businesses. Her goal is always to help connect the individual’s personal source of leadership to the complex business and human challenges of delivering profitable, sustainable growth.

Anthony Gallo

Tony Gallo is a professional affiliate with the Center for Leading Organizations and a partner at HawkPartners. Tony specializes in strategy, marketing and planning. For the last 20 years, he has provided counsel to senior executives on many facets of the strategic planning process, including strategy development, brand development and positioning, managing client relationships, and the linkage of data to strategic decision-making.

Gib Hedstrom

Gib Hedstrom is a professional affiliate of the Center for Leading Organizations, and the founder of Hedstrom Associates. Gib has over 25 years of experience advising CEOs and board members about how to handle difficult environmental, social and governance challenges. He has reported directly to boards of directors of Fortune 500 companies on over 50 occasions. Gib founded Hedstrom Associates in 2004, providing consulting services to companies that want to be profitable, to be admired, and to thrive as successful enterprises.

Donald R. Leopold

Don Leopold is a professional affiliate of the Center for Leading Organizations and senior partner of Sherbrooke Partners, a consulting firm offering a unique blend of strategic planning, management, and organizational expertise. Don’s consulting focus is on helping clients develop and articulate their business strategies, and on building organizations that are capable of implementing those strategies. He has applied a highly facilitative approach to his work since he began his consulting career with Harbridge House in 1980.