Linda Hall

Nonprofit Consultant

Linda Hall is an experienced member and leader of over twenty boards. A high Impact and  Innovative professional with undeniable talent as a change agent facilitating CEOs and executive  leadership teams to execute essential strategies to optimize performance. Collaterally qualified  through solid consulting skills, exceptional public speaking, and an extensive community service  record. A reputation distinguished by demonstrating proven competencies, ingenuity, diligent planning, and delivering results.

Linda is a dynamic business developer, consultant, and facilitator with an impressive history of  success in creating high-performance organizations. Her extensive experience in orchestrating  organizational change and providing executive leadership development drives her success. Linda  has coached over 100 CEOs and their teams and has been heralded as transformative, pivotal to  long-term profitability, and consistently exceeding expectations. Linda is an experienced SME in  organizational and individual transformation.

Linda has supported executives and organizations in transition, working through succession  planning, change of ownership, change in position, separation from the company, and retirement  preparation. Linda has a breadth of experience, including enterprise development, small business  start-ups, business turnarounds in small to mid-size businesses, high-performance organization  model design, strategic assessment and planning, leadership competency design for high  productivity/performance, post-merger integration, and company restructuring. As a leader in  the Greater Rochester community who has twice been a finalist for an Athena Award, Linda has  served on numerous non-profit boards. Her experience includes strategic business development  change, economic and community development, human services delivery systems, and  community outreach. Aligning Diverse Perspectives/ Constituencies, Post-Merger  Integration/Restructurings, Start-Up Companies, Corporate Transition Entrepreneurship.

Core Competencies  

  • Creating High-Performance Cultures
  • Private Business Turnarounds
  • Business Succession Planning
  • Assessing and Building Leadership Competency

More than Thirty Years Enterprise Leadership Experience  

  • Wakefield Way Consulting, LLC, Founder, President, & CEO Present
  • WorkSmart Learning, Co-Founder / Principal
  • WorkSmart International, Inc., Co-Founder/ Principal
  • Walden Hall Associates, Inc., Founder, President, & CEO, Rochester, NY