Arlene H. Meritz
Senior Affiliate Consultant
Arlene is a highly qualified Human Capital leader with expertise in organizational consulting, business services, consumer packaged goods marketing and clinical and group psychology. Her practice provides strategic change management, organization effectiveness, talent management, leadership coaching and development.
Arlene has affiliated with BeamPines in order to expand her capacity and leverage our competencies and resources. Before becoming the Principal of The Meritz Group LLC, a Human Capital consulting practice helping organizations grow by aligning their people with business strategy, Arlene spent 25 years at Cadbury Schweppes leading Centers of Excellence in global change management, talent management, organizational effectiveness and learning and development. Arlene started her career as a psychologist and director of behavioral change programs. This combination of experience enables valuable insight and thought leadership resulting in effective strategic and tactical planning and delivery.
In senior leadership roles at Cadbury, as well as external consulting assignments with leading organizations across various industries, Arlene has guided, advised and coached executives and teams around significant growth and change initiatives impacting commercial, supply chain and corporate functions. In partnership with her own team or a client's team, she has employed a comprehensive business change model, including conducting needs assessments, creating meaningful business cases for change, performing stakeholder analysis and engagement planning, developing communications strategies and plans, leveraging strategic capability and talent assessments and shaping new cultures and 'ways of working' to build sustainable growth and profitability.
Arlene provides leadership coaching to executives of leading organizations on a variety of personal and professional, strategic and operational business issues and opportunities. In so doing, she has leveraged her cross-functional experience, including: Leading a global Human Resources transformation for a multi-national consumer packaged goods company; Shaping an integrated culture to assimilate four distinct businesses in alignment with a global food manufacturing parent company; and Developing a strategic human capital plan for a global multi-media and publishing organization.
Arlene’s education includes an MBA in Marketing from NYU's Stern School of Business, a MA in Psychology from The New School For Social Research, and a BS in Psychology from Georgetown University.
Email: ameritz@beampines.com
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