What Happened?
Arlington, VA-based Corporate Executive Board Company has Promoted Melody L. Jones as Chief Administrative Officer
About the Company
The Corporate Executive Board Company (CEB) is the world’s leading member-based advisory company. We have a unique view into what matters — and what works — when capitalizing on drivers of business performance. With 30 years of experience working with top companies to share, analyze, and apply proven practices, we begin with great outcomes and reverse engineer to help you unlock your full potential. Every year we equip more than 16,000 senior leaders from more than 10,000 organizations across 110 countries with the insights and actionable solutions they need to respond quickly to evolving business conditions and transform operations. We do this by combining our advanced research and analytics with best practices from clients across 90% of the Fortune 500, more than 75% of the Dow Jones Asian Titans, and 85% of the FTSE 100. As a result, our members achieve outsized returns by more effectively optimizing talent investments, creating new sources of efficiency, reducing risk, and enabling and accelerating growth.
About the Person
Melody L. Jones oversees all of CEB’s HR, IT, Legal, and Product Development functions. During her tenure, Melody has overseen the growth of CEB’s professional services business, which provides development experiences for emerging leaders and increases functional effectiveness. She has also used CEB’s tools and insights to implement several best practice innovations in human capital management and ethical leadership, structured the global technology delivery system for effective and efficient service delivery to members and CEB employees, inaugurated the firm’s global philanthropic initiative, and redesigned the new product development process. She spearheads initiatives designed to ensure that the values of the firm are embodied in each employee around the globe. Prior to assuming her current position, Melody served as the Human Resources Director for T. Rowe Price, a global investment management firm. In this capacity, she had overall responsibility for the Human Resources function. Prior to joining T. Rowe Price, Melody spent eight years at Aon Corporation, a Fortune 50 insurance brokerage and consulting company, serving as the Chief Human Resources Officer. She joined Aon as head of the Midwestern Regional Office of Aon Consulting, and also assumed responsibility for the HR Strategy and Technology consulting practice. Melody also served as a senior consultant with Organizational Dynamics, Inc., and held several leadership positions in a six-year tenure with Citicorp Mortgage. Melody holds Master of Music and Bachelor of Arts degrees, both from Southern Illinois University. She has also completed post-graduate work in Organizational Psychology at the University of Missouri. She enjoys traveling, cooking, and competitive ballroom dancing.
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