John focuses his consulting on helping executives drive toward improved business results. This includes providing individual and team coaching as well as consulting on a wide variety of people issues, including business unit alignment, talent reviews and high potential programs tied to the business and employee engagement.

Before joining Strategic Talent Solutions, John worked for 19 years at Hewitt, where he was a partner. He worked in Hewitt’s communication practice, as an executive in Hewitt's e-solution health care benefits business and as a Talent & Organizational Consultant. He consulted with clients on all areas of Hewitt’s suite of services including organizational effectiveness, employee engagement, all forms of compensation and benefits. Before leaving the firm, he was a managing consultant and was responsible for the overall relationship and increasing market share of targeted Hewitt clients including Caterpillar Inc., Wm Wrigley & Son, Allstate, HSBC North America and Navistar.

He is an adjunct faculty member of the Northwestern University School of Education and Social Policy, Center for Learning and Organization Change. He also is a book review editor for “People and Strategy,” the journal of the Human Resources Planning Society. John holds a B.A. in Journalism from Creighton University and an M.S.J. from Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.