"Trying to implement a breakthrough strategy without effectively addressing the leadership and cultural challenges is like trying to run without breathing. You might think you're going fast - in fact, you might really go fast for a little while - but things will eventually collapse."

For over twenty-five years, Laura Pedro has helped leaders of Fortune 500 companies stimulate breakthroughs in their businesses. Today she works primarily with senior executive teams. Her clients tap the power of human commitment by simultaneously addressing strategic business issues and the leadership and culture issues that surface during implementation. Her broad range of experience, including successful leadership development, culture change, new product time-to-market projects, and strategy implementation, gives her the skills needed to design and deliver engagements that produce both concrete financial results and the shift in human relationships that lead to sustained success.

Laura has multi-industry experience, including such companies as GE, Sears, NFO Worldgroup (now a subsidiary of TNS), Catalent Pharma Solutions, Allstate Insurance Co. and Tektronix. She has worked with global companies with locations in North America, Asia-Pacific and Europe. She spent two years living in Europe working with the challenges of a merged organization as it shifted to a Pan-European strategy. She also helped Islandwood (a non-profit that works with schools to provide science, art and technology education in an outdoor setting) create a program that supplements their grants and donations by working with for-profit businesses.

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