Meet Our Team

Linda Gookin is a leadership consultant, specializing in assessment, development, succession, competency modeling, and facilitation. She has over 25 years of experience in consulting to a variety of industries, bringing extensive experience designing selection systems, developing executives, and leading team effectiveness and talent management initiatives. She is extremely client centric and listens carefully to better understand the business context to inform the best approach.

EXPERIENCE

• Creates talent strategies aligned with organizational strategies.
• Designs and develops large-scale selection systems with development planning.
• Develops competency models and systems to reflect the goals of the business.
• Coaches executives to elevate their effectiveness.
• Facilitates development sessions to enhance team effectiveness.
• Designs and delivers leadership development programs to build capability and facilitate change.
• Utilizes analytics to provide organizational insights.

IMPACT

• Coached hundreds of leaders from front-line managers to CEOs.
• Worked with a client to specifically target their time management and executive presence. Through a verbal 360 approach, Linda was able to help this individual facilitate overall improvement in performance, which led to a promotion due to the significance of their progress.
• Coached a leader to understand their strengths and a path for their development in tandem with using 360 and manager feedback. After creating a targeted development plan to address skillset gaps and providing coaching, this leader was promoted from SVP to a C-1 role.
• Turned around a dysfunctional team by assessing and analyzing its members, then facilitating individual and team coaching sessions that led to improved performance.

CREDENTIALS

• Ph.D., Industrial/Organizational Psychology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
• M.A. and M.S., Psychology, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
• B.A., Psychology, New York University