ED PICCOLINO

Ed is a Principal of the New England Consulting Group and a key member of our Consumer Marketing and Organization Leadership practices.

Ed's background reflects thirty years of management development, both as a consultant and as a senior line manager focused on building high performance organizations.

His experience combines an unusual set of skills encompassing alignment of business strategy with organization needs, and strategic staffing and talent development, culminating in the implementation of change management and enterprise value creation.

Prior to New England, Ed served as Executive Vice President of Empower/Manpower Group where he was responsible for human resources consulting for the Americas Region. Much of his work has focused on building leadership teams for Kodak, Sun Chemical, American Airlines and EMI Music.

As senior Human Resources Officer for PepsiCo International, Ed was instrumental in the complete reorganization and restructuring of both the management and go-to-market teams worldwide involving six regions and 40 countries.

He continues to search for new methods and solutions to difficult problems and, as an example, directed the first implementation of assessment center methodology for the identification of leaders within the New York City Policy Department, which has now become a case history for successful change management and value creation.

He holds an MA in Industrial Psychology from Ohio University and a Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Ed has also been a member of the Board of Governors for Higher Education in the State of Connecticut.