Leslie Eveland, M.A. Senior Consultant

Leslie Eveland has over twenty years of experience creating leadership and organizational development programs that deliver breakthrough results.

She served as Director of Organization Development for Charles Schwab & Co. and for Palm Inc., and consulted internally for Hewlett Packard, Applied Materials, and Lockheed Missiles and Space Company. She has also owned her own consulting firm for five years, working with start-up organizations and non-profits, as well as Fortune 500 companies including HP, Cisco, Chevron, and Sun Microsystems.

Leslie has extensive, hands-on experience in leading organizational design and transformation initiatives. She consulted on the design and start-up of Charles Schwab’s Electronic Brokerage Services, which grew from zero to 60% of the firm’s assets in three years. She led a project to redesign Applied Material’s manufacturing organization and move operations to Texas. The project resulted in dramatic productivity improvements. She also led the design and start-up of Lockheed’s first Product Development Centers, transforming the effectiveness and productivity of both Engineering and Manufacturing.
As a Manager for Hewlett Packard’s Strategic Change Services she helped to develop GarageWorks, a Rapid Decision Center which utilized cutting-edge technologies and facilitation techniques to accelerate cross-functional planning and problem solving in support of the HP reinvention.

Leslie has significant experience in the facilitation of mergers and acquisitions. She supported the Lockheed and Martin merger and HP’s acquisition of Compaq. She also consulted on a year-long integration effort following Chevron’s acquisition of Shell’s downstream assets in Cameroon, Africa.

Leslie earned a B.A. in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley, an M.A. in Political Science from the University of California at Berkeley, and has completed graduate work in Organizational Behavior and Political Science at the University of Michigan.

Gerald Harris