Michele Bolden

Michele Bolden, Executive Consultant with The Advisory Alliance, has more than 30 years of experience in management, HR and education. She has worked with companies such as as Roche Carolina, Pfizer, Fleet Financial Group, New England Mutual Life Insurance Company and INROADS on a variety of performance and process improvement, M&A integration and cost savings initiatives. Most recently, Michele was the Human Resources Site Leader at Roche Carolina, Inc. supporting a large- scale change and leadership development initiative for Roche’s only large molecule manufacturing plant in the United States. Prior to that she was the Vice President of HR for Corporate Groups at Pfizer, working with C-suite executives and their teams on Organization Design, Organization Effectiveness, Change Management, and Talent & Succession Planning. She also held global senior HR positions at Pfizer’s Global Research and Development division where she was Vice President of HR for the Global Development organization and also led the HR team responsible for delivering services to finance, informatics, facilities and HR.

Michele has worked with internal clients on the following projects:

• Led the HR team, supporting the culture change, leadership and organization effectiveness initiatives to bring a manufacturing site on-line for full production
• Co-Led the global transformation of the HR function for Pfizer, resulting in cost savings of 50% over three years
• Led key M&A integrations teams, including the “day-one” readiness of all Wyeth employees transitioning into the Pfizer organization and establishing knowledge transfer procedures for employees in transition.
• Managed the recruitment for key positions in corporate groups and direct reports to the CEO
• Served as the project manager for diversity education, contributing to the design and development of learning modules and personally trained 1000 colleagues in one year
• Co-designed and led a year-long HR Development Program for Fleet Bank

Michele held several positions at Fleet, including Vice President and Sr. Training Business Partner, responsible for all training and Organization Effectiveness programs for the CFO and the Finance organization, as well as Corporate Diversity Director where she was responsible for setting the Diversity strategy and diversity training for Fleet Financial Group following the merger of Fleet and Bank of Boston.

Michele also served as the Managing Director at INROADS, a national not-for-profit dedicated to development and placement of talented minority youth in business and industry, preparing them for corporate and community leadership. In that position, Michele led business operations in the Central New England affiliate, and co-chaired the national training committee, developing and facilitating training sessions for the professional staff.

Michele received her Master’s in Human Resources Management from Rutgers University, a Master in Education from Antioch College, and her BS in Education from Boston University. Michele is also a Fellow of the Life Management Institute, with a specialization in Administrative Management. Michele has participated in numerous professional development programs and was invited to participate in the first Advanced Management programs at New England Mutual Life Insurance and Pfizer.