Leadership Award
Linda Ferrone
North Highland
Linda Ferrone began her career as an industrial engineer. After four years, however, she felt stagnant and was looking for something a bit more dynamic, something that fit her energy level more.
"Consulting fit me like a glove," Ferrone says. "The variety of work I do is what fulfills me. I enjoy the combination of having a client focus as well as developing team leadership in the company and my community. Consulting fits my personality style and allows me to be very active and strategic."
But any old consulting firm wouldn't have done the trick for Ferrone, who had already started a family by the time she switched careers. "The opportunity to work at North Highland came at a perfect time in my life," she says. "North Highland allows me to develop my leadership skills, make a positive impact in my community and balance my time at home. I also love the people I work with. Everyone at North Highland, from consultants up to the C-suite leaders, is not only interested in client success, but also how each employee is developing personally."
And that development has led Ferrone all the way to Vice President and Central Florida Office Leader for North Highland. Today, with over 20 years experience working with companies to improve their performance through strategic planning and execution, professional facilitation, organizational change management and performance management, Ferrone is setting pretty high standards for others to follow.
However, ask her about a career of achievements, and she'll tell you her biggest one is being able to have a career that she loves and be a mother at the same time. An accomplishment made possible, she says, by North Highland.
"Because my clients live and work where I do, travel is limited and I'm able to spend more time at home," she says. "It can be difficult to balance a full-time career with raising a family, but I feel an immense achievement to have found a place that not only helps me achieve my goal, but encourages it as well. Diversity can be expressed in many ways other than gender and ethnicity, and I believe that if we embrace who we are and form teams that are intentionally diverse, we can have more powerful thinking and stronger results."
—Joe Kornik
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