Tom Kaney

Latest Thinking

Sustained business success ultimately depends on the ability of the business to execute against strategy and to align the workforce from ‘the top to the shop’ in pursuing and accomplishing key business objectives. This requires both a well designed process for strategy formulation and execution as well as a comprehensive focus on employee and leadership retention, engagement and development and management systems and processes.

Areas of Expertise

Tom has held senior executive positions in the Pharmaceutical and Healthcare industries. As a Senior Vice President, Human Resources for GlaxoSmithKline, Tom was the primary architect of post-merger integration of four mega-mergers including SmithKline and French and Beecham PLC which has been hailed as a benchmark for merger success through culture renewal, leadership development, and HR and business process engineering.

His expertise includes change strategy and management; organization design; alignment of workforce and business strategies, HR best practices to support and drive business strategy, talent management/succession, and leadership development/coaching.

Background

Tom began his career in Hospital and healthcare administration. He then became a Principal consultant with the Hay group and led Hay’s Performance Management and merger integration practices, serving a variety of organizations in industries such a automotive, chemical, healthcare and manufacturing.

He held several positions within GlaxoSmithKline and GSK’s predecessor companies. Roles have included Sr.VP HR, worldwide R&D and Sr.VP Corporate HR Smith Kline and French laboratories, Sr VP HR and Organization Development, SmithKline Beecham, and Sr. VP HR, North America Pharmaceuticals, GlaxoSmithKline.

Tom also held positions as Director, Organization Development and Compensation at Subaru of America and Sr. VP, Human Resources at Medarex, Inc, a biotech company. Over his career he has led a variety of HR transformations, culture change initiatives and several merger integrations.

Tom holds a BA from Penn State and a MA in Organizational Psychology from Antioch College.

Tom is a member of The Harvard Business Review Advisory Council.

Strategist.

Business Architect. Mentor.

Managing Partner

Tom has specialized in the strategic management of Human Resources and organizational change for over 20 years. He has been SVP Human Resources for Medarex, Inc., SVP Human Resources for GlaxoSmithKline NA, and a leader in HR at Subaru of America. Tom is s a member of The Harvard Business Review Advisory Council.

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email:

Tkaney@mcknightkaney.com

phone:

215-205-0334

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RECOMMENDATIONS

Tom has first-rate experience and provides excellent counsel on organizational development and change management. He has very high integrity and provides intense care in coaching. Tom is thoughtful, knowledgeable, and trustworthy in his approach to issues and challenges.

—Howard Pien, CEO Medarex

Tom is an experienced strategist and driver of change in complex organizations. He led GSK’s NA HR organization for over a decade. He also successfully led the global merger integration of SmithKline and Beecham in addition to the NA integration of Glaxo and SmithKline Beecham. In addition to change management and post merger integration, he earned a reputation coaching executive level talent at the highest levels.

—Vivian C. Kessler

President, Search Innovations, Inc.

Tom has been instrumental in helping me to lead and manage my team. What inspires me most is his intuitive understanding of complex issues and his straightforward solutions to them. Tom has been valuable not just as a consultant but a mentor. Tom has helped me design compensation and performance management systems, design my organization, and develop leaders. He is unique in that he brings both quantitative and qualitative analytical and strategic capability.

—Jim Wiley, CEO, The Wiley Group

Tom has been a tremendous help to me in envisioning and mapping the future of my business and in enhancing my leadership capability. He is a wise coach and mentor who has significantly helped me become more effective both in my leadership role as well as my personal life. I am grateful for his many contributions to me and to ProtonMedia.

—Ron Burns, CEO ProtonMedia

I admire Tom’s vast reservoir of operational experience / his ability to quickly analyze strategic options and develop practical courses of action, and his thoughtful approaches to mentoring. One of Tom’s greatest assets is his ability to assess meaningfully the strengths/weaknesses of a company’s human capital and culture, and help companies foster and leverage the talents of its leaders and emerging leaders.

—Alina Denis Jarjour, VP Corporate Compliance, Medarex

Tom Kaney has always maintained an unveering focus on building leadership strength, especially in times of change. He has an uncanny talent for spotting high potential leaders and for helping leaders create positive, performance-oriented workplace cultures. You can count on Tom to drive growth and change with candor, creativity and high expectations.

—Anna McClaferty, SVP, GlaxoSmithKline