About Nancy

For more than 20 years, Nancy Halpern has helped executives, teams, divisions and entire organizations focus on what matters most and how to get it done. Nancy’s clients engage her again and again because she has the analytical objectivity of a MBA with the insights of a strategic leader. Combining pragmatism with customized solutions, she brings authenticity, determination, humor and insight to the work she does with leaders across a wide group of industries.

Are Your Fulfilling Your True Potential?

Download one of Nancy's FREE eBooks

Podcasts & Webinars

For the Hiatt Career Center at Brandeis University, Nancy explains how to get out of a mid-career rut.

Nancy In The News

Fortune  How To Be a Great Boss

Wall Street Journal  How to Know When You're on Thin Ice at Work

Fast Company  Managing Remote Teams

CBS News  Managing Up and Staying Sane

Inc.  How to Hire the Perfect Team

Yahoo Finance  5 Signs that You Need to Leave Your Company

Monster  Coping With A Lazy Coworker

Huffington Post  5 Ways To Deal with Adversity In Business

Reader's Digest  Signs Your Boss Is a Micromanager

Career Builder  Saying Your Sorry When You've Messed Up at Work

TechTarget  How HR Can Improve The Candidate Experience

Experteer  How To Get Your Career Unstuck

The New York Post  The One Question You Should Never Answer in a Job Interview

Forbes  5 Ways to Deal with Colleagues Who Drive you Nuts

Glassdoor  Staying Focused at Work After a Break Up

Monster  How To Get Promoted

Recruiter.com  7 Ways To Ward Off Job Search Depression

PHRM  When It's Time To Give HR A Break

Nancy Halpern is a leadership consultant who facilitates high-impact off-sites and coaches executives aspiring to the C suite.

As a pioneer in the field of leadership development, senior executives trust her to find individualized solutions for themselves and their teams to the thorniest and most intractable of talent problems. What makes Nancy unusual is her combination of pragmatism, political savvy, intellectual capital, intuition, and logical methodology.

Her client list, cutting across industries and functions, ranges from the Fortune 500 to hedge funds to retail start-ups, and includes Bank of America, Conde Nast, Ogilvy and Mather, PriceWaterhouseCooper, Pfizer, Baker McKenzie, Nestle, Disney, Booz Allen Hamilton, Columbia University, and Dow Jones, among many others.

Several of those clients have retained Nancy to develop customized off-sites and workshops in Japan, Thailand, South Africa, Singapore, Switzerland, and the UK. Nancy’s ability to connect and engage with executives at all levels and cultures created an atmosphere that opened up the possibility to create significant behavioral and organizational change.

Leveraging her twenty-plus years of experience, combined with her own extensive business leadership background, Nancy works in partnership with clients to target goals and identify success benchmarks. Senior Human Resource leaders look to her to assess talent through customized 360s, reengineered talent reviews, and performance management systems, as well as to lead focus groups for new initiatives.

Nancy has been interviewed by The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Financial Times, INC., Fortune, Fast Company, Forbes, The Chicago Tribune, ABC News, The PBS News Hour, and Marketplace on National Public Radio. A frequent source of advice, she has been extensively quoted on career websites such as Monster, Glassdoor and Recruiter.com. She has also volunteered as a mentor and business coach to organizations that support the U.S. military, recently released prisoners at Riker’s Island, newly arrived immigrants, and numerous students at both the undergraduate and graduate level.