Paragon Global

Jeff Stone

Jeff Stone

To work with Jeff, please contact us at results@paragonglobal.com

Professional Expertise

Jeff has more than 25 years of management and consulting experience focused on helping clients achieve personal, team, and organizational effectiveness. He has a passion for helping leaders and teams navigate through periods of growth and change, and in particular, the tricky cultural transition from an entrepreneurial to a more professionally-managed organization.

Jeff’s areas of expertise include executive coaching, top team effectiveness, developing broad-based employee engagement, and results-focused strategy implementation processes.

More recently, he has worked extensively in the Life Sciences industry helping companies and their leaders navigate the challenging waters of rapid growth and expansion – or, as one client put it: “helping brilliant scientists become intelligent leaders.”

Jeff has coached senior leaders and worked with groups spanning all levels and functions in a wide range of industries, including: Accellent, ACMI, Alkermes, Alnylam, Applied Materials, BP Chemicals, Carrier Corporation, EPIX Pharmaceuticals, Eisai Pharmaceuticals, Geltex Pharmaceuticals, Infinity Pharmaceuticals, Jacksonville Electric Authority, The Hartford, MIT Sloan Fellows Program, Novartis, Price Waterhouse Coopers, Rhodia Pharma Solutions, Seaside Therapeutics, Smith & Nephew, UMass Medical Center, and Vertex Pharmaceuticals.

Current and Recent Coaching Assignments

CEO & leadership team of a biologic device company to identify and resolve the root cause of interdepartmental discord.

CSO and Therapeutic Area Heads of a discovery research operation to resolve unexpressed conflict that was impeding open communication and the ability to build consensus around important strategic business issues.

CEO, President and CBO of emerging pharmaceutical company to provide support through challenging management transitions and an extended period of rapid growth and change in which they needed to relinquish control to a broader leadership team.

Multiple leaders of fast growing company to avoid risk of career derailment due to inability to transition from senior technical roles to functional/project leadership roles.

General Manager of multinational firm to transition successfully from France to first US assignment.

VP Intellectual Property, a brilliant scientist and lawyer, whose abrasive style was interrupting her ability to add full value to the leadership team and the business.

CEO of an early stage drug development company whose overly congenial style and tendency to avoid confronting difficult situations was causing the leadership team and board to lose confidence in him.

South African GM of the US manufacturing operation for a Norwegian industrial equipment maker struggling with his first US assignment and adapting his leadership style to a multi-national leadership team and an American employee population.

Inventor and founding CEO of a specialty chemicals company struggling to scale his leadership skills as the company he started began to grow faster than his skills to lead it.

CEO and leadership team of a mid-size medical device company to identify the leadership competencies critical to continued growth and success. Subsequently developed and administered a 360º assessment and coached the top 20 leaders, while developing internal resources to cascade the process out to the top 100 leaders below the executive level.

Numerous functional VPs at a fast growing communications technology company that needed to develop stronger leadership and managerial skills.

VP, General Counsel needing to develop a virtual global legal team and raise her own profile with corporate executive leadership.

Education and Professional Affiliations

M.S. Organization Development, American University/NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, Washington, DC

B.S. Management and Psychology, University of Pennsylvania

Jeff is certified in the use of a variety of assessment tools including The Leadership Circle Profile & Culture Survey, the MBTI and the Thomas-Killman Conflict Mode Instrument.

Jeff is also experienced in creating customized leadership competency models and 360º assessments, as well as, custom organizational climate surveys.

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