Lela Tepavac

Consultant

Education

Columbia University, New York

PhD in Social & Organizational Psychology
MA in Social & Organizational Psychology

University of Zagreb, Croatia

MA in Social Psychiatry
BA in Liberal Arts


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Lela Tepavac is an experienced organizational and leadership consultant focused on  helping companies and their leaders build innovative organizations with enabling cultures that attract exceptional people and fully leverage their talents.

Lela has developed multiple customized leadership models and assessment tools with behavioral definitions based on external research and internal context such as industry trends, new vision, strategic direction and desired culture. Such models and tools reflect external know-how as well as internal views of optimal leadership framework that best fits organizational objectives. Lela has developed a proprietary model/approach to build an innovative organization that is able to unleash creative potential of employees. She has authored a book on the topic of innovation in organizations. She also created methodologies and tools to assess leaders’ capabilities to lead in specific business context such as growth, green growth, turnaround, or turmoil.

Prior to starting her consulting practice, Lela was a Partner at Mercer Delta Consulting (now Oliver Wyman) for thirteen years, working with executives of major corporations to strategically design and execute organizational change. Lela worked primarily in the areas of executive leadership assessment, CEO evaluation and succession, organization assessment and diagnosis, organization culture change, intellectual capital building, and change metrics. Lela has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies across industries – media and entertainment, publishing, banking, airlines, retail, insurance, pharmaceuticals, medical, manufacturing, and high technology. Representative list of Lela’s clients include: Time Warner Co; The New York Times; PepsiCo; General Electric; United Airlines; Citibank; Credit Suisse Asset Management; American Reinsurance; Best Western International; Shell, Bristol-Myers Squibb; The Limited; International Paper; Corning; Unilever; Raytheon; League of American Orchestras; Merrill Lynch; The World Bank; The TAI Group; Visa, Boston Consulting Group; United Minds, etc.


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