Thomas J. Tierney has spoken to a wide range of audiences around the United States on critical topics affecting professional service firms. He brings a wealth of professional experience, both from Bain & Company and his pioneering work with The Bridgespan Group, to the issues of strategy and organization within professional service firms. Relevant topics include:
  • Professional Service Firms as a model for 21st century “knowledge worker” organizations
  • Why stars matter most – and are more important than teams
  • People Precede Planning: why organizational performance should lead and strategy should follow
  • How to Align Stars with Strategy: guiding the behavior of independently minded individuals
  • The power of “Partnership” as an organizing theme
  • Leading stars: Leadership Without Control
  • Micromanaging organizational culture to control individual behavior
  • Personal Development: building a life, not a resume
  • Professional Service Firms: Strategy in tumultuous times (e.g. mergers, new competitors, public ownership, recession)

Mr. Tierney is also an acknowledged speaker on a wide array of topics associated with the non-profit sector and philanthropy.

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