Marc Effron
Biography
Marc Effron helps companies build better talent, faster. Marc helps the world's largest and most successful companies improve the quality and depth of their talent. His consulting work focuses on creating effective talent strategies and detailed talent management process designs, all using the One Page Talent Management approach - Simplicity, Accountability and Transparency. With deep consulting and corporate talent management experience, Marc provides a highly practical, broadly informed perspective to his clients. Prior to forming The Talent Strategy Group, Marc served as Vice President, Global Talent Management for Avon Products, and started and led the Global Leadership Consulting Practice at consultancy Hewitt Associates. He was also Senior Vice President, Leadership Development for Bank of America and served as a political consultant and a staff assistant to a United States Congressman. Marc co-authored the Harvard Business Press best-selling book One Page Talent Management: Eliminating Complexity, Adding Value. He also co-authored Leading the Way, coedited Human Resources in the 21st Century and has written chapters in eight management and leadership books. He is a regular columnist for human resources publications worldwide. Marc is the founder and publisher of Talent Quarterly magazine, which raises the quality of dialogue about talent issues with serious, provocative and practical guidance from the world's top management thought leaders. Marc is a sought after speaker on talent management and leadership topics by both corporations and conferences. He is widely quoted on talent issues in the business media and has been recognized as one of the Top 100 Influencers in HR. He earned a M.B.A. from the Yale University School of Management and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Washington. Marc founded and leads the New Talent Management Network, a non-profit HR networking and research organization that is now the world's largest talent management organization with more than 3,000 members.