Dana Ruberto is an innovative, experienced senior practitioner with close to 20 years experience in the field of Organizational Development, (OD) and Change Management. She is an accomplished business leader, facilitator, mediator and coach.  She has consulted extensively with Fortune 500 companies and worked internally at a senior level for a major corporation.

Specific areas of expertise:

·         Aligning business systems/processes to support strategy

·         Evaluating and planning for impacts of change

·         Team and leadership capacity building  

·         Strategy alignment,

·         Organizational diagnosis and design,

·         Enterprise wide change planning and implementation,

·         Technology implementation,

·         Merger integration, and

·         Team development.

Selected experience:

·         As the Director of Organizational Development for R&D at Glaxo Wellcome and then GSK, she was responsible for strategic direction, portfolio of service and resource allocation of OD consulting services to R&D leaders worldwide. Managing a staff of 16, in 3 countries and a budget of $2.6M.  She consulted on change management issues to R&D Executive team and on the impact and productivity of change initiatives throughout the business. She served as co-leader of the Change Management Team to assist with the merger integration of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham R&D businesses (a total of 17,000 people across the globe).

·         Dana was also responsible for external research, capturing new practices and benchmarking organizations both inside and outside the Pharma industry to assist R&D and R&D HR in the attainment of key business priorities. She spearheaded research and white paper summaries on state of the art knowledge pertaining to strategic alliances, innovation and entrepreneurship in large companies.

·         Dana has working on many aspects of business change; helping to implement large technology platforms and systems, integrating diverse cultures, starting up new leadership teams, and assessing the impact of new processes and initiatives. 

·         Dana has been the owner of a business owner Ruberto Management Resources, Ltd for close to 15 years and explored her own leadership journey as an entrepreneur and manager of diverse and complex teams. She has been responsible for business development, corporate strategy, key account management, project management and overall operations.

Selected education, training, and certifications:

·         Youngest individual to become a NYS Certified Mediator, earning the reputation as “the problem solve,”

·         Professional Executive Women’s, “Who’s Who” and National Distinguished Service Registry

·         Metropolitan Assistance Corporation’s Recognition Award 

·         AQP’s Outstanding Leadership Award 1995

·         Elected to The Planning Committee for ASTD’s International Conference in the area of Organizational Change 1997

·         National Leadership Award for small business by the Business Advisory Council, 2003.

·         Masters degree in Clinical Psychology from New York University, coupled with post graduate studies in organizational development and systems change.