Building Executive Capacity
There is a familiar pattern that often plays out in the upper suites of many organizations: A highly accomplished executive leader moves into a new...
Leadership Agility® 360 Certification Workshop on April 24th
The Leadership Agility® 360 Certification workshop is designed for experienced coaches and corporate professionals who are committed to moving their managers to the next level...
Linking Executive Coaching To Organizational Strategy
Executive coaching has moved from something done punitively to a process best used with key talent to catalyze individual leaders’ effectiveness. Progressive organizations understand that...
The Transformative Power of Executive Coaching
In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, executives face unprecedented challenges that demand agility, resilience, and visionary leadership. Our latest white paper, "Unlocking Excellence: The Transformative...
Embedding Talent Development into Project Staffing
An international financial and economic consulting firm had off-the-shelf software for managing project assignments and availability for its consultants that was no longer meeting its...
Investment Bank
A major international investment bank had an e-mail and spreadsheet-based process for selecting people to be promoted to the top rank of managing director (MD).
Retail Bank
A global bank wanted to roll out a talent review and succession management application for its top 3,000 executives.
Financial Services
A well-regarded financial services organization engaged Cambria to work with its executive team to assist in transitioning a new CEO into her role, ensuring that...
Financial Services
After failed attempts to transition two different executives into the CIO role, a large multinational firm needed to onboard a new CIO whose major challenge...
Public Works Contractor
A California-based CEO was concerned about the lack of professional experience on the board and the resulting indifference of the board to her initiatives to...
Chemical Manufacturer
A global chemical company engaged Cambria to coach the CEO and several other senior executives to role-model the company’s commitment to development through a top-down...
Federal Agency
A large US government agency with thousands of employees and locations distributed across the country was one of the first federal agencies that saw the...
Global Manufacturing Company
A Fortune 100 industrial equipment manufacturer was about to go into global expansion mode, which meant that its senior leaders needed to do things differently...
Media Company
A national broadcasting and print media company wanted to enhance the leadership capabilities of high-potential individuals through focused development.
Federal Agency
A large US government agency wanted to implement executive coaching throughout the organization. However, each branch of the organization was doing its own thing without...
Merger of Two Companies
A construction company with revenues of $3 billion was in the process of acquiring a privately held business in the same industry. Besides wanting to...
Custom Assessment for Federal Employees
Cambria created the Federal Executive Leadership Inventory (FELI) in collaboration with the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. It measures...
Global Investment Bank
The North American region of one of the world’s largest multi-national investment banks wanted to enhance the leadership abilities of a group of high-potential Directors...
Diversified Manufacturing Company
Cambria developed and implemented a suite of 360-degree feedback instruments for individual contributors, supervisors, leaders, and program managers across all the countries in which the...
Cambria is Hiring: Principal-Level Consultant
Cambria is Hiring. Cambria is looking to add a US-Based Principal-level consultant to our team to support the work of our Executive Coaching Practice. We...
Veteran Executive Coach Jody Bradham Joins Cambria as a Principal
(Boston – 1/6/2023) – The longtime executive talent development firm – Cambria Consulting – has named executive coach and leadership development veteran, Jody Bradham, to...
Cambria Launches Accelerated Leadership Development
(Boston, MA 10/28/2020)--The leading talent strategy and development firm – Cambria Consulting – is out with a new service geared to helping organizations rapidly build...
Racial Justice: Going Beyond Just Words
Cambria joins with people everywhere who are responding with outrage to the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis – and the deaths of many other...
Scott Simpson Published on Training Industry.com
Cambria’s Scott Simpson explores five critical priorities for developing employees in today’s challenging business environment. Read the Training Industry article.
Cambria Consulting Ranked as One of the Top Seven HR Consulting Firms for the Second Straight Year
(Boston, MA 12/18/2019) – The Boston-based talent strategy firm, Cambria Consulting, has been ranked one of the top seven human resources consulting firms for 2019.
Scott Simpson Quoted in Human Resource Executive Article
Cambria’s Scott Simpson is featured by Human Resource Executive magazine about a new blockchain technology for verifying job candidates’ experience — and why excellent interviews...
Cambria Consulting Announces Selecting for Success eLearning — Designed to Efficiently Optimize Candidate Vetting and Hiring
(Boston, MA 10/29/2019) – The Boston-based talent strategy firm, Cambria Consulting, is launching a high-impact eLearning option to complement its popular Selecting for Success™ training...
Coaching Deployed by Organizations to Address Important Strategic Goals
(Boston, MA 11/5/2018) – Cambria Consulting, the Boston-based innovator of solutions that accelerate talent development, has launched a new publication called Cambria Lens to provide...
Cambria Lens: New Perspectives on Coaching
Cambria Lens provides insights into best practices that address important talent challenges – most specifically: solutions that connect talent strategy to an organization’s pressing business...
Leadership Agility® 360 Certification Workshop on December 5th
The Leadership Agility® 360 Certification workshop is designed for experienced coaches and corporate professionals who are committed to moving their managers to the next level...
How to Hire the Best Job Candidates – Cambria Consulting Releases New eBook to Help Organizations Drive Smarter and Stronger Hiring
(Boston, MA 11/16/2017) – Cambria Consulting – a leading talent strategy firm – is out with a new complimentary eBook with strategies and practical insights...
Cambria eBook: Hire the Best Job Candidates
Cambria’s free eBook – Hiring the Best – can help you source and hire the strongest job candidates.
Leadership Agility® Change Lab – Public Program
The public 2-day Leadership Agility Change Lab is an intensive learning experience focused on leading organizational change in today’s complex, rapidly changing environment. Working with...
Meeting the Global Leadership Challenge: George Klemp will Present Cambria’s Framework for Developing Globally Adaptive Leaders at Prestigious Executive Forum
(Boston, MA 10/12/2017) – What does it take to meet the challenges of developing leaders for success in global roles? That question is a critical...
Internal Coaching eBook – Create a Coaching Culture
The leading talent strategy firm, Cambria Consulting, has released a new eBook with practical pointers on how organizations can launch internal coaching to address key...
Cambria eBook: Build Internal Coaching Capacity
Internal coaching is used increasingly to develop key talent quickly and across the organization. It’s fast becoming a critical tool and here’s why: Internal coaching...
Exceptional Talent
Exceptionally talented people often make game changing contributions and can transform a business or industry. Yet most organizations don't differentiate them from typical “high performers”.
Enough about Leadership: Let’s Talk about Management
Leadership is all the rage these days. The lionization of leaders from Jack Welch to today’s pantheon that includes Jeff Bezos, Howard Schultz, and Elon...
Ellen Kumata Keynote: Look to Coaching to Develop Leaders
(Boston) –The important role that coaching has in developing leaders is the focus of a keynote address by Cambria managing partner, Ellen Kumata, at the...
Evaluating Coaching Initiatives — Post-Coaching Evaluation
This is the second post in a three part series on evaluating coaching initiatives, which is an increasingly critical priority for organizations to track the...
The Challenge of Suspending Judgment
This is the fourth blog post in my series exploring Cambria’s new framework on developing globally adaptive leaders, including this initial piece examining my thinking...
Evaluating Coaching Initiatives — Interim Evaluation
The rapid growth of coaching — including internal coaching — is in response to twin challenges confronting most organizations: the need to develop leaders faster...
Global Leadership Framework presentation at OD Network Conference
Cambria's Lori Collins is on the roster for the 2014 annual conference of the OD Network to present the firm's new framework for developing globally adaptive leaders.
Lori Collins on Developing Globally Adaptive Leaders
BOSTON — (BUSINESS WIRE) — Cambria Consulting principal Lori Collins will present the firm’s powerful new framework for developing globally adaptive leaders at the 2014...
Connect at the NEHRA Conference!
Join us at the NEHRA Annual Conference to explore new talent development solutions.
Sensible Fearlessness – The Art of Mindful Risk-taking
This is the second in a series of blog posts detailing the five attributes of Cambria’s recently released framework on developing globally adaptive leaders. The...
Cosmopolitanism — Where the World is Your Home
Cambria recently released a new strategic framework for developing global leaders — which I detailed extensively in a new white paper, Beyond Borders: Developing Globally...
Developing the Globally Adaptive Leader
Cambria is pleased to unveil a new framework for developing globally adaptive leaders, one designed to help organizations build vital bench strength on a global...
Developing Globally Adaptive Leaders for Success Beyond Borders
The challenge of developing leaders for success in global roles is the focus of a new strategic framework from Cambria Consulting, the Boston-based talent strategy...
Global Leadership: It’s NOT Just “Leadership Plus”
The challenge of developing leaders for success in global roles — many of us have logged countless hours helping global organizations grapple with that thorny...
Ellen Kumata on Succession Planning – New Talent Network
Succession planning in today’s complex and hyper competitive business environment is the focus of a New Talent Management Network event featuring a panel of talent...
Cambria Trains YPO Executives in Competency Modeling Session
Cambria will lead a cross-section of East Coast manufacturing and food services executives — members of the Young Presidents Organization — in an exploration of...
Tracking Trends in Talent Strategy: SIOP Highlights
What do leading thinkers and practitioners see as important innovations & trends in talent management?
Ellen Kumata Honored with Coaching Award
The Institute of Coaching has awarded Cambria Consulting managing partner, Ellen Kumata, with its Founding Fellow Award for her work to advance the executive coaching...
NASA Renews with Cambria for Executive Coaching & OD
NASA has renewed its multi-year contract with Cambria for executive coaching and organizational development services across the national space agency.
Cambria Promotes Colleen Gentry to Partner
BOSTON — (March 6, 2012) — Cambria Consulting, Inc. announced that Colleen Gentry, formerly a principal at Cambria, has become a partner in the firm....
Krisann Davis Joins Cambria’s Consulting Staff
BOSTON — (November 14, 2011) — Cambria Consulting, Inc. announced today that Krisann Davis has joined the firm as a principal consultant. Davis resides in...
The Coaching Impact Study: A Study in Successful Evaluation
Download and read the chapter about Cambria’s Coaching Impact Study™ from the newest volume in SIOP’s Professional Practice Series, Advancing Executive Coaching. Chapter 14, "The...
Cambria’s 25th Anniversary
March 2010 marks the 25th anniversary of the founding of Cambria Consulting. Cambria was first incorporated as Charles River Consulting, with offices in Boston’s historic...
Partnership with Harvard Business Publishing
Harvard Business Publishing, the premier source for management practices, programs, and content, and Cambria Consulting have formed an alliance to partner in providing our corporate...
Leadership Agility 360® Workshop Receives ICF Accreditation
We are pleased to announce that the International Coach Federation has approved the Leadership Agility® 360 Certification Workshop for 15 Continuing Coaching Education (CCE) Units....
Delivering Sustainable Top-Down Executive Coaching
Three years ago, Cambria embarked on a strategic coaching initiative with a Fortune 200 global manufacturer that began with one person — the company’s chairman...
If Your HR Process Is Broken, No Technology Solution Will Fix It
Audit and align your HR processes before you invest in and implement a technology solution.
Cambria’s Critical Behavior Interview and Fair Hiring Practice
In this white paper, Derek Steinbrenner addresses Cambria's Critical Behavior Interview (CBI) and fair hiring practice. The CBI is a technique that helps organizations hire...
Maximizing the Impact of 360° Feedback
Get your managers to embrace their feedback, build an ongoing development dialogue with their supervisors, and foster a development culture throughout the organization.