colleagues

CLR is an informal network of colleagues, bound together by a desire for excellence across the entire spectrum of leadership. CLR is unique in its design—a small core organization that expands its ranks as needed to fulfill individual client needs. Each CLR colleague brings his or her own particular expertise, talent, background, experience and specialty to the network. The network represents an optimum blending of mutual interests and professional capacities.

Here is a small cross section of CLR colleagues:

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Katherine Brennan is John O’Neil’s partner in CLR’s day-to-day functions and activities. With a diverse background including a decade in San Francisco broadcast public affairs, Katherine’s key strength is as a communicator. She is integral to CLR’s people-connecting and information-sharing activities. Katherine also has a gift for the written word coupled with a keen editorial eye, and collaborates with John on his articles and books.

Katherine also manages CLR’s website and keeps the organization’s administrative wheels turning smoothly.
   
:: Judith Cohen and partner Jim Hall lead CoMotion Corporation, a new breed of consulting firm specializing in strategic marketing and employee communications. By combining the promotional power of external marketing and branding methods with the deep understanding of the internal dynamics of organizations, CoMotion has helped some of the world’s largest and fastest growing companies transform the way they do business. Among other assignments, CoMotion is currently supporting CLR’s work with Public Affairs Management.
   
:: Tom Doorley co-founded Braxton Associates (now the highly successful Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu global strategy practice), and is both an entrepreneur and a senior advisor to leadership teams across a global spectrum of clients. Based in Boston, Tom is co-founder, Chairman & CEO of Sage Partners, a versatile firm devoted to meeting the strategic and leadership development needs of established and emerging companies alike.
   
:: Margaret Downs's career has spanned management consulting, private equity, general management and public policy. Currently she leads Downs & Associates LLC in New York, a practice she founded in 1997 to advise clients in the information and services sectors on strategic and organizational issues. Margaret has collaborated on several CLR client projects and is currently helping create a leadership development program for Asset Management Advisors, a division of SunTrust Bank.
   
:: Lori Ogden Moore, a highly successful advertising / marketing veteran who is now turning her talents and experience towards professional coaching, Lori has an AB from Stanford, earned her MBA at Yale, and recently completed Georgetown University’s leadership coaching program. She brings tremendous creative energy to client assignments, with a focus on leadership development workshops. Lori most recently collaborated on a CLR workshop for future health care leaders sponsored by the U.C.S.F. Center for Health Professions.
   
:: Chris Morgan, a transplanted Brit who runs a lively human capital practice, Morgan Alexander, has a particular talent for crafting feedback loops to help organizations assess and improve leadership performance. Chris is also a seasoned leadership coach, and is gifted at uncovering hidden leadership talent by helping senior executives integrate hard-headed business perspective with the people skills needed to promote organizational growth and change. He has been active in CLR’s work with Blum Capital Partners.
   
:: Niels Nielsen, based in Europe and the U.S., Niels holds a Masters in Philosophy with a specialization in the theory of knowledge. He ran one of Europe’s largest professional service firms, and presently serves on numerous boards in the U.S. and Europe. Niels is currently guiding a large and complex merger in the European finance sector, and is supporting CLR in its work with Asset Management Advisors.
   
:: Ned Rollhaus earned his MBA at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School. A skilled financial analyst with solid venture capital, investment banking and start-up experience, Ned has most recently supported CLR in its ongoing work with LeaderMetrics, assisting in the development of the methodology and strategic plan. Ned is based in San Francisco and is a Level 2 Candidate for the CFA designation.