Marc Effron

Marc Effron helps companies build better talent, faster. 

As a talent management leader, Marc has worked for, and consulted to, some of the world's largest and most successful companies including Bank of America, Citigroup, Philips Electronics, Reliance Industries (India) and Alcoa.  He applies a simplicity-based approach to building leaders which emphasizes transparency and managerial accountability.

Marc is currently VP, Talent Management Avon Products.  His prior experience includes starting and leading the Global Leadership Consulting Practice at Hewitt Associates, where he created the Top Companies for Leaders study. Marc was also Senior Vice President, Leadership Development for Bank of America, Director of Organization Effectiveness and Learning for Oxford Health Plans, and a compensation consultant for a global consulting firm. He previously served as a political consultant and a congressional staff assistant.

Marc is currently writing One Page Talent Management: Building Better Leaders, Faster with co-author Miriam Ort of Pepsico, to be published by Harvard Business Press in early 2010. He co-authored Leading the Way, co-edited Human Resources in the 21st Century and has written chapters in eight management and leadership books. He's also published in journals like London Business School's Business Strategy Journal and Leadership Excellence magazine.

He is widely quoted in the business media on leadership issues and is a frequent speaker at industry events.  He earned a B.A. degree in Political Science from the University of Washington and a M.B.A. with honors letters from the Yale School of Management.

In 2007, Marc founded the New Talent Management Network (http://www.newtmn.com/), a non-profit networking and research organization that has grown to more 1,200 talent management professionals.

He can be reached at marc@effrons.com