1. HARRIS CONSULTING GROUP
2356 Swamp Angel Ct., Cool, CA 95614
randall@harrisconsulting.net
phone/fax: 530-888-8675
cell: 805-279-2908
RANDALL I. HARRIS
SUMMARY
Randall Harris brings over thirty years of organization effectiveness, talent management,
leadership and employee development, change implementation and business
transformation expertise to some of the world’s most admired companies. He has
consulted with organizations across the entire lifecycle of challenges driven by growth:
helping start-ups plan for expansion; guiding the organization design and business
process improvements of mid-sized firms; and addressing the leadership and talent
development challenges associated with the globalization of Fortune 500 enterprises.
Randall is highly skilled in working with leadership teams across all functions to build
and sustain organizations that are committed to innovation, employee engagement and
peak performance.
Selected Business Transformation Projects
Large Biopharmaceutical Globalization/Change Management
During a seven-year period of rapid expansion, worked extensively with executive team
members on a CEO-driven initiative to develop and implement organization growth
plans. Conducted organization analyses and facilitated organization design of global core
business functions; designed/implemented change implementation processes, employee
communications, and employee and leadership training programs to drive culture change;
partnered closely with HR Business Partners to conduct talent reviews to enable key
staffing decisions, and updated succession and business continuity plans. Established
metrics dashboards and provided updates to senior management relative to the change
implementation progress; developed and implemented sustainment strategies to embed
changes.
Large Biopharmaceutical Commercialization/Cross-Functional Alignment
As part of a fundamental organization re-alignment to optimize product development and
commercialization within a $12 billion biopharmaceutical organization, implemented
cross-functional collaboration and communications processes to optimize strategic product
planning, accelerate program decision-making, and drive coordinated execution. Defined
new leadership roles and requirements; designed and co-facilitated multiple talent review
meetings with executive management resulting in the selection, placement, and
development of over one hundred mid- to senior-level managers across multiple
functions; managed the staffing transition and assimilation into new roles; followed-up
over a multi-year period to track leadership performance and development progress.

2. RANDALL I. HARRIS
HARRIS CONSULTING GROUP
Selected Leadership and Employee Development Projects
Multiple Organizations: Leadership and Employee Development
Designed and facilitated a large number of customized single- and multi-day management
and employee development programs to enhance leadership and individual contributor
impact and effectiveness. Conducted extensive needs analyses to identify and prioritize
mission-critical leadership capabilities and employee skill requirements; provided
program management, instructional design, and facilitation expertise in the development
and delivery of highly engaging training curricula addressing a multitude of topic areas;
implemented on-the-job action learning assignments and additional development
strategies to accelerate competency growth post-training.
Multiple Organizations: Executive/High-Potential Coaching
Conducted leadership effectiveness assessments for leaders at multiple organizational
levels; utilized multi-dimensional interview protocol to gather inputs from a cross-section
of sources; identified strengths and development priorities and worked with clients to
create targeted development plans; through “accountability contracts,” reinforced focus on
actionable goals addressing both attitudinal and behavioral change elements; provided
ongoing executive coaching and support to drive leader effectiveness.
Selected Talent Management Projects
Multiple Organizations: Competency Model Design/Implementation
Working with Learning & Development departments and cross-functional leadership
teams, designed and implemented functional and company-wide competency models to
drive employee/leadership development and to support broader career
management/employee engagement goals. Deliverables included: competency model
architecture design; development of competency libraries with detailed behavioral
descriptors; mapping of target proficiency levels to job families; competency proficiency
assessment tools, process and launch training; targeted development resources; cascaded
communications and implementation plans; multi-phased training curriculum; support to
ongoing sustainment efforts.
Multiple Organizations: Recruitment and Onboarding Best Practices
Working with the Talent Acquisition Team, conducted an evaluation of current screening
and selection processes. Identified opportunities to fundamentally improve candidate
selection outcomes based on implementation of predictive indicators; built HR
Recruitment Playbook and Hiring Manager/Interview Team Resource Guide and
resources to enhance behavioral interviewing skills; sharpened screening criteria based on
historical hiring/retention data; implemented Interview Team training modules to drive
consistent application of best practices. Evaluated and identified onboarding process
change opportunities with goal to accelerate “time to performance”; refined front-end
training program content and incorporated “buddy systems” to improve new hire
assimilation experiences.

3. RANDALL I. HARRIS
HARRIS CONSULTING GROUP
Selected Team Performance/Effectiveness Projects
Multiple Organizations: High Performance Team Development
Created an eleven-module High-Performance Team Toolkit and associated training
program/resources to enhance cross-functional collaboration and optimize team
performance and effectiveness; designed an online Team Assessment Survey based on
predictive factors currently in use in multiple organizations; includes modularized
training materials, facilitator guides, and numerous team development resources.
Multiple Organizations: Team Facilitation
At the request of clients, have designed and facilitated several hundred management team
meetings, to address a broad range of business needs: strategic planning, annual goal
setting, talent reviews, workforce sizing, succession planning, team building, and change
management; facilitated critical business issue resolution meetings, partnership mediation
discussions, and other forums where extensive experience and capability in dealing with
complex, high-risk and/or emotionally charged situations is required.
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
Harris Consulting Group, Cool, CA
Management consulting practice providing organization
and business consulting services
2005
Amgen, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA
Associate Director, Organization Development and Training
1998 – 2005
SmithKline Beecham Pharmaceuticals, Philadelphia, PA
Associate Director, Organization Development
1993 - 1998
Rockwell International Corporation, Los Angeles, CA
Senior Organization Development Consultant
1985 - 1993
Randall I. Harris Associates, Los Angeles, CA
Management consulting practice providing organization
and business consulting services
1979 - 1985
EDUCATION
M.S. Human Resource Management (Organization Development)
Chapman College
1987
B.A. Counseling Psychology
University of California, Santa Cruz
1977
SELECTED CLIENT ORGANIZATIONS
Amgen, Gilead Sciences, Jazz Pharmaceuticals, Kythera Biopharmaceuticals, MedImmune,
Novavax, Perkin Elmer Medical Imaging, Shire Regenerative Medicine, United
Therapeutics