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Resume
Karen Albert, president of Albert & Company International, is a recognized expert on executive education and management development worldwide, with more than 20 years of experience. She has designed programs in the United States, Europe, and Asia and developed education strategies and projects for Fortune 500 companies operating around the world. Karen’s areas of expertise are training, program development and evaluation, career planning, and customized guides and seminars. Her clients of record include AT&T, Agilent Technologies, Bank of America, Chevron, Coca-Cola, Eastman Kodak, EDS, Hewlett-Packard, Hong Kong Government, IBM, Intel, Medtronic, and Merck & Company.
Before founding Albert & Company International, Karen held positions with United Technologies, United Airlines, Pacific Gas & Electric, and Wells Fargo Bank.
Her areas of effectiveness include:
SUCCESSION PLANNING Created MIDAS (Management Identification and Development Assessment System). Identified high potential employees, key positions, and back-up candidates to ensure the orderly replacement of key managers. Directed corporate/international staffing and executive continuity development systems.
EXECUTIVE DEVELOPMENT Designed and evaluated company-wide executive and management education strategies and programs. Published Executive Development Programs catalogs.
MANAGEMENT & LEADERSHIP Directed human resources planning, management development, professional and technical training. Counseled managers on implementing change and organizational/staff development.
PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT Selected, delivered and evaluated education programs to meet corporation’s current and future needs. Programs included executive/management development, diversity, change management, marketing, quality, stress management, professional women’s seminar, presentation skills, counseling and interviewing, business management, and management assessment and selection.
CAREER PLANNING Designed a model career planning system published in national journals and books and used as a base for Coca-Cola’s career management program.
PUBLICATIONS
Karen Albert has written or contributed
to over 50 books and articles including:
Tackling the Tough Issues of Change, 1999
Executive Development Programs Guide, 1979-2002
Degree Programs Guides, 1996-2003
Briefing/Debriefing, 1989-2001
Stress Management, 1980-1984
Approach to Career Management, 1978
CITED IN
Business 2 Ingenuity, 1998
Inc. Magazine/Executive Strategies, 1996
International Business, 1995
KPMG Peat Marwick’s World Magazine, 1992
Bechtel’s Executive Program Directory, 1983-84
Columbia University Bulletin, 1980
Training and Development Journal, 1980
PRESENTATIONS
Equipment Leasing Association
“How to Manage Change in Your Organization,” 1999
West Coast Executive Development Conference:
“Strategic Organizational Change,” 1992
Human Resource Planning Society:
“The Competitive Edge,” 1987
International University Executive Program Directors:
“Executive Education: New Dimensions,” 1985
EDUCATION
Harvard University, M.Ed.,
Business Education and Learning Environments
Cornell University, B.S.,
Human Development and Environmental Design
