Profile

Ned is a top leadership strategy and executive coach who uses a pragmatic, results-oriented approach to help top-tier executives and teams sharpen performance and advance their most important business goals, resulting in resilient, growth minded, transformative leaders with a clear path to early & long-term success.

His expertise includes HR Leadership, Human Capital Management, and M&A. His customizable assessment, coaching, and development programs help executives gain early visibility into vital leadership risks and mitigating actions; build resilient, growth minded, transformative leadership behaviors; fast-start strategic alignment, execution, and engagement across the leadership team; and engage the full team to create winning cultures, align new ways of working, and accelerate change. His work emphasizes the belief that everyone is a leader, and that leaders take responsibility for developing authentic, powerful leadership styles, and identifying a clear path toward growth.

Ned’s approach and insights are informed by over 20 years of international business experience. He has held several people leadership roles at IBM, helping the company transform its portfolio to nearly 50% cloud and AI/data offerings, including the launch of Watson Health, numerous PE/VC funded acquisitions, and culminating with the industry’s largest software acquisition of Red Hat. Most recently he served as the Human Resources Leader for two core professional services business, supporting the SVP of Corporate & M&A Strategy, and SVP of Legal and regulatory affairs (both reporting to IBM’s CEO). He was also a Corporate Development Human Resource global team leader, focused on development, integration, engagement and culture for inbound, outbound and divested business. Prior to that he was a Principal Consultant with IBM’s Global Business Services (formally PWC), responsible for building enterprise-wide change management transformations.