Overview
Laura Gironda is a principal in Heidrick & Struggles’ Houston office and a member of the Inclusive Leadership Practice. She has 30 years of leadership development, culture, inclusion, and organizational development consulting experience. Laura is an Executive Coach, and her partnership approach has challenged and inspired organizations around the world to leverage talent by creating accountable and inclusive cultures and practices.
Experience
Laura’s expertise is building relationships with key stakeholders, boards, C-suite, and top leadership to develop holistic, customized client solutions that link inclusive leadership to business strategies, performance management, talent life cycle, and organizational values. Using both quantitative and qualitative data, she focuses on creating inclusive cultures and leaders through highly interactive and experiential keynotes and workshops for audiences in the U.S. and EMEA.
Laura has experience in health and life sciences, financial services, consumer products, manufacturing, technology, industrial, insurance, entertainment, energy, aviation, government agencies, higher education, and professional associations.
She studied and researched in Scandinavia, working with organizations to understand cultural norms impacting performance. Laura co-authored “Back to the Future: A Pendulum in Organization Development” and "Global Organization Development: Lessons from Scandinavia," both published in the Organization Development Journal.
She has taught organization development, team building, and gender communications at the graduate and undergraduate levels.
Education
Benedictine University, Master’s Degree in Organization Development and Behavior
University of North Carolina-Greensboro, Bachelor’s Degree in Communications and Psychology
Awards
Laura won the Jack Gibb Award from the Organization Development Institute for her work and research on team development.