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Brenda
Broz Eddy is the founder of Eddy Associates, a
management consulting firm specializing in coaching and career
development for senior corporate officers and their counterparts
in non profit organizations. She has many years of experience as
a coach and consultant to officer level clients from substantial
companies. She has also held senior leadership roles in
privately held and publicly traded companies and non-profit
organizations. Recent client companies include Disney, Rio Tinto
Mining, Avery Dennison, Loyola Marymount University, HBO, The
Orange County Segerstrom Center for the Arts and the Aerospace
Corporation.
Prior to starting her own firm, Brenda was Senior Vice President
and Managing Director of the Executive Consulting Practice for
Right Management Consultants. In that role she was responsible
for executive level coaching and outplacement in the western
United States. Before her tenure at Right she served as
Managing Director for the Los Angeles office of Janotta Bray, an
international career consulting firm, specializing in senior
executive outplacement.
Brenda started her consulting career at Booz Allen and Hamilton,
a large international strategic consulting firm and went on to
spend a number of years on the faculty of the Georgetown
University School of Business where she taught management and
organizational development. While at Georgetown she worked with
the U.S. State Department to upgrade the management skills of
members of the diplomatic corp. Later, as a Vice President at
Transcentury Corporation, she led a similar effort under funding
from the Agency for International Development. In this role she
created the Economic Development Institute and managed a team of
consultants providing coaching and management technical
assistance to the leaders of International Development Agencies
such as CARE, UNICEF and Save the Children. Brenda then led the
creation of the End Hunger Network, a non-profit alliance of 120
international agencies and, as its Executive Director, produced
the global rock concert "Live Aid" which was televised
internationally and became one of the most successful charity
fund raising events in history.
Brenda went from the international arena to investment in and
co-leadership of two small entrepreneurial companies, one in
bio-hazardous waste management and the other in electronic
claims software for doctors’ offices. She was then recruited
back into consulting serving as President of Ambrosetti America,
the US subsidiary of an international management consulting firm
specializing in high level educational briefings for CEOs.
During this period she arranged customized educational
experiences for the CEOs of a wide range of companies including
Fluor, The Capital Group and Sempra Energy, at that time the
nation's largest natural gas utility.
Brenda has an MBA from the Harvard Business School and an
undergraduate degree in marketing from the University of
Southern California. She serves on the board of Counterpart
International, a non- profit organization specializing in
economic development in emerging countries.
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