The Board Compass consulting team:
Elise Walton
Board Compass founder Elise Walton, Ph.D., has consulted to large, global organizations at the highest levels on the critical challenges they face. Her clients, which include several on the Fortune 500 and major nonprofits, span a diverse range of industries, such as healthcare, pharmaceuticals, finance, telecommunications, software, manufacturing, construction, education, and non-profit. Her work and engagements focus on: Governance evaluation and advisory, Executive and leadership development, Strategic organization assessment, design, and alignment; Large-scale change initiatives and change management; Innovation and learning strategies and management. Elise writes, researches and speaks on leadership and corporate governance behavior. Her insights help clients penetrate a company’s challenges and find ways for its leadership to solve them.
Judy Duhl
Judy Duhl has over 20 years of experience in healthcare delivery systems, public policy, nonprofit governance and government relations. Judy’s practice includes Leadership and leadership development; Association governance, leadership and management; Strategic communications; and Healthcare delivery transformation.
Judy was most recently SVP, Government Affairs, for the Visiting Nurse Service of New York. There, she led strategic development and implementation of government relations and public policy activities on all levels of government for this $2 billion non-profit home and community-based service provider. Judy also served as the Interim President and CEO of the Visiting Nurse Associations of America, Washington DC, where she provided leadership to this national trade association of 160 non-profit home health and hospice organizations.
Lilian King
A trusted advisor to CEOs and their senior teams, and a consultant to Boards of Directors, Lilian has been involved in for profit, private, and non profit governance, corporate leadership successions, development, mergers and business turnarounds.
Lilian has solved strategy, people and team issues for more than 20 years. A consultant across industries she focuses on the integration of strategy, performance and change. With deep experience in organization alignment and leadership effectiveness she possesses excellent assessment skills. A results oriented consultant with a bias for simplicity of process and speed in execution, Lilian is able to manage difficult dynamics and work effectively with demanding leaders and their teams. Lilian combines an acute understanding of business with analytical assessments of human behavior.
Lela Tepavac
Lela Tepavac is dedicated to helping companies and their leaders make the best choices for the top roles and build strong organizations with enabling cultures that attract exceptional people and fully leverage their talents and initiatives.
An expert in leadership assessment, Lela has developed novel proprietary models and methodologies to address important issues such as effectively leading growth, leading turnarounds, building effective governance frameworks and building organizations that enable innovation. Lela has worked with the numerous Fortune 500 companies across industries – media and entertainment, publishing, banking, wealth management, airlines, retail, insurance, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, high technology.