Alice Portz has consulted and partnered with CEO’s, Senior Business Leaders and Human Resource professionals of numerous companies to design & deliver programs that improve performance of individual leaders, management teams and accelerate the next generation of their leaders. She brings over 25 years of business and leadership development consulting experience. Alice’s efforts are focused on facilitating customized leadership-development strategies to accelerate business results. She has extensive experience with feedback systems and coaching around performance enhancement at the individual, team, and organizational levels. She has developed a number of leadership-development programs that incorporate action learning and have produced measurable results.

Alice has worked with clients in a wide spectrum of industries and with leaders and teams across the globe. Some current and past clients include Nike, Avon, Cemex, Old Castle Materials, Novartis, Premera Blue Cross and Group Health Cooperative. She has worked with a variety of technology companies including: Concur Technologies, Sun Microsystems, sharebuilder.com, onlineshoes .com and drugstore.com. Alice has also worked extensively in Financial Services including Bank of America, Citi, XL Capital, Safeco and Allstate.

Alice is a faculty member with The University of Nevada at Reno and a consultant with their Collaborative Leadership Center. The center provides training, facilitation, mediation, and consultative services for the leadership of public and private organizations, both for profit and nonprofit. She is the past Chair for the Institute for Management Studies—Northwest Region. The Institute is an executive development organization bringing authors and world-renowned business leaders to conduct seminars and workshops in 26 cities worldwide.

Alice recently wrote an article on “Developing Global Leaders Through Action Learning” and was published in the 2008 Pfeiffer Annual on Leadership Development.

Alice has a BS in Health Sciences and a MS in Human Resource Development from National Louis University. She also did post graduate work in business and has an Executive Certificate in Business Strategy for the Development Professional from Northwestern University.