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Joanne Tornos

Joanne works with organizations at the business, team and individual level to develop leaders, grow capability and enhance organizational performance. Her work ranges from people strategy and organizational design, through team coaching and facilitation, to assessment, development and coaching of current and future leaders.

Joanne’s style is pragmatic, caring and direct. She lets insights ‘germinate’ and evolve, while acting as an accountability partner to her clients, encouraging them to find practical steps to experiment with new thoughts and behaviors. She particularly enjoys coaching emerging female leaders, those moving from being stellar individual contributors to having to achieve through teams as their span of control broadens, and leaders who are transitioning from functional to enterprise responsibilities.

about

Joanne’s HR career spans over 20 years and four continents. She was formerly Vice
President, Global Talent at The Estee Lauder Companies in New York, where she drove the company’s executive talent strategy. Prior to Estee Lauder, Joanne led Talent in two divisions of Anglo American in London, where she led teams to embed common talent management approaches across operations in South Africa, Australia, South America and China. Earlier in her career, she lived and worked in Spain, the Philippines and Peru, in HR roles in start-up, M&A and mature environments. She is accustomed to, and loves, working with teams from across the world and from many different cultural and professional backgrounds.

Joanne lives in Connecticut with her husband and two sons. Much of her free time is spent cheering on her sons at the soccer pitch, and she prides herself on having transmitted her love of her home team, Liverpool FC, to both boys. She loves to travel with her family and is hoping to instill a keen sense of curiosity and wanderlust in her boys. She also enjoys running, reading and cooking.

CLIENT ENGAGEMENTS INCLUDE

S&P Global, Barclays, BIC, Party City, Allergan, Anglo American, Harvard Business School Executive Education, Yale School of Management


ACADEMIC BACKGROUND
  • MBA, Henley Business School, UK
  • BSc (Hons) Modern Languages & Marketing Studies, University of Salford, UK


ASSOCIATIONS AND CERTIFICATIONS
  • Certificate in Leadership Coaching, Georgetown University
  • Chartered Member of the Institute of Personnel & Development (UK)
  • Hogan Assessments
  • The Leadership Circle
WHAT PEOPLE HAVE SAID ABOUT neil

Neil's work with individuals, teams and our organization has had and continues to add tremendous value and real impact. He listens and understands, has a keen and nuanced sense of people, issues and solutions. Like the warm and caring person he is, he is able and willing to adapt himself to the diverse needs of clients, drawing on a deep reservoir of techniques, with practical and actionable steps that raise the quality of outcomes. His time with us has consistently provided essential support to each of us individually and collectively to help move us forward together toward becoming a fitter, healthier and higher functioning team. Having experienced many such engagements, his comparative and absolute value is beyond compare. Worth every dime and minute of investment, I will and have recommended him to others without reservation.

M.S., Chief Operating Officer, Financial Services