About

For more than 20 years, Dr. Lucinda Doran has applied her expertise and experience to the unique 0289-1457-2a issues confronting organizations in flux. With extensive line management, business development, board, and cross-functional  experience and a deep understanding of external factors contributing to business success, Lucinda has earned a reputation for her pragmatic vision, and action with finesse. Her deep expertise is in strategy, organization planning, design & development and executive talent management.

Lucinda’s track record crosses start up, expansion, succession, M&A, turnaround, divestiture, and culture change.  She has held operating roles with full profit and loss responsibility in Professional and other services as well as interim operating, administrative and HR/Marketing & Communications executive roles overseeing people-and-knowledge-rich service operations across numerous industries.

  • Professional, Business to Business and Financial Services
  • Media/Entertainment
  • Manufacturing
  • Retail/Consumer
  • Food Service
  • Life Sciences/Healthcare
  • Social Entrpreneurial and Research Non Profits

Companies call on Lucinda because she has sat in the chair of those whom she serves. As its President & CEO, Lucinda guided the Center for Quality of Management through a financial crossroads. She successfully repositioned and sold the multi-national organization, saving CQM’s well-known intellectual property, guaranteeing obligations to clients, and securing jobs for 95% of its employees. Before that, she founded The Corporate Advisory Group, building it to a “best of class” reputation.   CAG provided customized executive and organization assessment, measurement and effectiveness support to CEOs and boards making high stakes talent and organization decisions.  She also built behavioral selection, development, and succession systems at the HayGroup.

Organizations have turned to Lucinda to:

  • Design and deliver organization and communications strategies that address both internal and external contingencies;
  • Effect successful CEO and executive assessment, selection, succession, transition, and development;
  • Evaluate and catalyze leadership teams;
  • Restructure, redesign, and integrate systems to move the business forward;
  • Conduct due diligence and culture change/integration pre- and post-merger or acquisition; and
  • Design and implement metrics-based interventions to improve planning, performance, and decision making.

Lucinda started her career in marketing, advertising, and public relations management positions at DMB&B, J Walter Thompson, Ash/LeDonne, and Public Relations Associates in New York City, Los Angeles, Paris, and London. She earned her Ph.D. in Strategy, Management and Organizational Behavior from New York University’s Stern School of Business and is a licensed Organizational Psychologist. Lucinda has served as expert advisor on Tests & Measures and in other Sensitive Employment Decision Situations and has spoken, published and taught widely in her fields of expertise. She is a member of The Chief Executive’s Club of Boston, The Boston Club, the American Psychological Association, the Association for Corporate Growth, Board Leaders, and the National Association for Corporate Directors where she maintains ongoing ISS Risk Management Board Certification credits.

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