WJ Consulting

All WJ Consulting services are delivered by founder and principal Hilary Weston Joel. I have over 20 years of experience in management consulting, leadership coaching, professional development, and business education. In addition to executive coaching, my experience includes work in the following areas: strategic and business planning, organizational change, management best practices, process improvement, financial modeling, and team development.

Before establishing my own management consulting and coaching firm, I worked at consulting firms Booz Allen & Hamilton for 2 years and as a Principal at American Management Systems (now CGI-AMS) for 8 years. Consulting and management responsibilities included special strategic and international projects for the CEO and CFO, organization and dissemination of management best practices, process redesign, new service development, and information systems design for clients in numerous industries.

As the Charles M. Williams Research Fellow at Harvard Business School, I co-wrote eleven HBS case studies and teaching notes based on interviews with senior executives at organizations such as IBM, Marriott, Gannett, American Red Cross, and ADP.

In addition to helping established businesses and non-profits improve their strategy, operations, and management effectiveness, I have helped several start up businesses prepare full business plans.

I earned an MBA degree from Harvard Business School (Baker Scholar, top 5%) and a BA degree in Economics (cum laude) from Princeton University. I am a graduate of the accredited Leadership Coaching Program at Georgetown University's Center for Professional Development and the Myers-Briggs (MBTI) Qualifying Workshop at Otto Kroeger Associates. I hold the designation of Associate Certified Coach (ACC) with the International Coach Federation and am a certified administrator of The Leadership Circle© 360-degree feedback and profiling tool.

On most coaching engagements, Ms. Joel partners one-on-one with the client executive, sometimes reaching out to the management team. Coaching engagements generally last from 4 to 12 months. The paying client may be the coached individual or their organization (i.e., the employer) with the goals for each engagement shaped accordingly. Coaching sessions are conducted in person and by phone. Ms. Joel also works with senior management teams and Boards facilitating strategy sessions, retreats, team improvement initiatives, and Myers-Briggs workshops.