Author Biography
Roxana (Roxi) Bahar Hewertson is an expert in Organizational Effectiveness, Leadership Development, and Human Resource Management, with more than thirty-five years experience in the worlds of business, higher education, and non-profits. In Hewertson's second book, Lead Like it Matters...Because it Does, published in 2014 and her trademark leadership development program, Leading with Impact: Your Ripple Effect, she helps both emerging and seasoned leaders boost quantifiable job performance in mission-critical facets of business to achieve or exceed organizational and career goals. Roxi is the founder and CEO of Highland Consulting Group, Inc., (www.highlandconsultinggroupinc.com) and Ask Roxi, (www.askroxi.com). Hewertson is also the author of How to Build a Space Station: A Parable About Values at Work, and has been published in Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, Inc., Strategy Driven, and Business News Daily, to name a few. She served as adjunct faculty at Cornell University s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and was the Director of Administration, Facilities and Finance at Cornell, where she championed a competitive Leadership Development Program with a waiting list of applicants for programs that are now led by her proteges university-wide. Before leaving Cornell to pursue her consulting and writing career full-time, she was responsible for a $250M non-academic operations budget and had oversight of nearly 2,000 professional, bargaining unit, and administrative staff.
