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Sage Management Consulting Celebrates Ten Years as a Global Consultant to Pfizer

Sage Management Consulting has enjoyed a decade of providing leadership development services to various research lines in the Pfizer Global Research & Development (PGRD) organization. Throughout that time, over 100 Pfizer leaders have developed their leadership competency through the benefit of a Sage Leadership Development Plan. As the principal consultant in delivering this body of work, Susan McKeone has been rewarded to see how Pfizer leaders have grown their careers and increased the impact they make on their organizations and in the science of discovering and developing medicines. In 2009, Susan worked with 20 Pfizer leaders at Vice President & Director levels and has had the pleasure of visiting PGRD locations at Groton, CT; La Jolla, CA; St. Louis, MO; and Sandwich, England.

Susan McKeone Facilitates a Leadership Forum on Culture for the LifeCell Corporation

Susan has had the great privilege of serving as an adjunct member of the Senior Management Team for the LifeCell Corporation in 2009. Since 2006, Susan has served as a key HR strategist for the company and provides leadership development and talent management services to the company’s senior leaders.  In October of 2009, Susan designed and facilitated a Leadership Forum for the company. Held in Lambertville, N.J., the forum was the first meeting of its kind for LifeCell, bringing together the top 60 leaders to explore the company’s culture and its impact on LifeCell’s success. LifeCell Corporation is a world leader in regenerative medicine.

Sage Management Consulting Co-hosts Great Leader Workshop Series

Sage Management Consulting partnered with K HR Solutions to deliver the Great Leader Series, a series of three dynamic leadership workshops in early 2009. Speakers and participants represented accomplished corporate leaders from various companies including Colorcon, Merck, Harleysville Savings Bank, Grand View Hospital, and LifeCell Corporation.

In the first workshop of the series, participants developed strategies to identify and build their own talent and manage the talent of those they lead. The second workshop explored the strengths and styles of successful leaders. In the final workshop of the series, participants learned how to effectively communicate by assessing the impact of personality, gender, and generation.

Susan McKeone Featured on About.com

Sage Management Consulting Principal Susan McKeone contributed to the Human Resources section of About.com as a guest author. Her article, Becoming a Sage: the Keys to Life-long Self-development, describes the development practices that successful people employ to ensure continued personal and professional growth throughout their lives.

Sage Staff Renews Commitment to Personal & Professional Development

At Sage Management Consulting, we focus on the career development of others, but we also take time to develop our own careers. Principal Susan McKeone and Project Manager Cindy Lehman continue to develop their professional skills. Here’s a look at what we’ve done recently:

New tools for exploring authentic leadership. In October 2008, Susan attended a course at the Authentic Leadership Institute at Harvard Business School called Finding Your True North. One of Susan’s premises is that every leader’s story is unique and true leaders create their own authentic approach. Finding Your True North provided Susan with new tools for exploring these premises even further. The course culminated in participants defining their life’s purpose and creating a plan to live it. Susan’s purpose: “Inspire others to acknowledge grace in their lives and live with hope for the future.”

Finding purpose and balance at work. Susan and Cindy took some time to reflect on purpose and balance in their professional lives at the Work & Spirit Day Retreat at the Cranaleith Spiritual Center in Philadelphia. With an underlying spiritual perspective, the program provides time and space for individuals to reflect on purpose and balance in their professional lives. Susan will return to Cranaleith in the Fall of 2009 to explore the use of poetry in executive coaching under the facilitation of long time mentor, Dr. Karol Wasylyshyn.

Seeking feedback. With the goal of understanding client perspectives, Sage Management Consulting regularly engages professional marketer Eileen Coale to interview clients about their experiences with Sage. Through this practice we not only gain insight into what clients value most about their relationship with Sage, but we also glean specific ideas for adding even more value to the client relationship.

Improved productivity through one-on-one coaching. Mastery Consulting’s Leslie Robison helped us improve productivity. With Leslie’s help, Susan and Cindy reconsidered office systems, workflow, and time management.

Susan also benefits from a long term relationship with Lesley Wendell of Rosewood Consulting Group which has included feedback, personality assessments, personalized development planning and coaching focused on Susan’s career and her leadership in client organizations.