Edith Onderick-Harvey | Nextbridge Consulting

About Edith Onderick-Harvey

Edith Onderick-Harvey is NextBridge’s managing partner. She is a widely-recognized consultant, speaker, and author. Throughout her career, Edith has specialized in working with clients to execute their current strategies while preparing for what’s ahead. In 1999, Edith founded the company under the name Factor in Talent and has served as its President. She previously served as a Partner in charge of marketing with Bridge Avenue Partners, Senior Consultant with Accenture, and in leadership roles at BankBoston (Bank of America) as well as Fidelity Investments.

Entries by

Our Most Read LinkedIn Articles of 2020

January 19, 2021 in Leadership, Organizational Performance, Performance, Strategy, Virtual Leadership, Workplace culture /by Edith Onderick-Harvey

As we all welcome 2021, we thought we’d look back to 2020 and some of our most-read LinkedIn articles. COVID has taught us that we can and must be able to change rapidly, to transform on the fly if need be. We’ve had no choice but to go more completely digital, transforming our customer, employee, […]

Conversations On The Curve: Bob Kelleher

December 8, 2020 in Change Leadership, Culture, Leadership, Leading Change, Virtual Leadership, Workplace culture /by Edith Onderick-Harvey

Boost Your Team’s Engagement Employee engagement is a challenge even in the best of times. This year, Gallup shows only 36% of US employees are engaged. Why does this matter? Companies with high levels of engagement are 21% more profitable and 22% more productive. One of the complicating factors this year is the unprecedented change […]

7 Tips for Better Virtual Reviews

December 7, 2020 in Culture, Innovation, Leading Change, Organizational Performance, Virtual Leadership, Workplace culture /by Edith Onderick-Harvey

Most managers have a hard enough time communicating with their team members. And doing so virtually is even harder. But there’s still good news for delivering that performance review virtually. A few basic techniques will go a long way to easing the difficulty. Just like in-person reviews, the key to successful virtual reviews is to […]

7 Ways to Make Performance Review Discussions Easier… and More Effective

December 3, 2020 in Culture, Leadership, Leading Change, Performance /by Edith Onderick-Harvey

Performance management is a source of some frustration for most managers, especially having the “dreaded” review discussion. There are ways to make that conversation both easier and more effective. It’s that time of the year again. No, not the holidays. Performance review and annual goal setting time. Many people dread performance reviews. That dread is exacerbated this year […]

Performance Reviews: 4 Tips for Better Strategic Alignment

December 3, 2020 in Change Leadership, Leadership, Performance /by Edith Onderick-Harvey

Most managers and employees don’t know their own organization’s strategic goals. So, whether you’re reviewing a middle manager or a front-line supervisor, there are good reasons to make the discussion more strategic. For starters, you’ll have more productive and effective leaders on your team; along with higher engagement and retention of key talent. Here are 4 ways […]

7 Covid Agility Lessons We Can’t Forget

October 6, 2020 in Career Development, Change Leadership, Culture, Leadership, Virtual Leadership /by Edith Onderick-Harvey

COVID has taught us that we can and must be able to change rapidly, to transform on the fly if need be. We’ve had no choice but to go more completely digital, transforming our customer, employee, student and supplier experiences. Truly listening with empathy, and being agile became key not just for leaders, but for everyone. Change […]

Does Your Onboarding Experience Still Work, Post-Covid?

September 14, 2020 in Change Leadership, Hiring Process, Leadership, Leading Change, Talent Management, Virtual Leadership, Workplace culture /by Edith Onderick-Harvey

How are You Onboarding (or Re-boarding) Post-Covid? One of the challenges of having so many people working virtually is creating and keeping a vibrant culture that helps everyone feel connected and driven by a shared purpose. Among the earliest experiences our people have with the culture is during on-boarding. Working in the COVD and post-COVID environment, […]

The More Things Change… the More We Need to Lean on the Fundamentals

July 28, 2020 in Change Leadership, Innovation, Leadership /by Edith Onderick-Harvey

I recently came across this article written nearly 10 years ago. In some ways it felt a bit quaint, but I was struck by how applicable the ideas were to not only this decade, but to our current Covid business reality. Enjoy. Results-Based Performance in a Virtual World This posting is co-written with my colleague […]

Let’s Change the Change Paradigm

July 3, 2020 in Change Leadership, Culture, Leadership /by Edith Onderick-Harvey

“We, as humans, are built for positive disruption.” That’s how a speaker at a recent virtual conference described change. Is that how you think about change and disruption? At about the same time, I read an article in Talent Quarterly by Joe Folkman about research into the push and pull approaches to leading change. When leaders use the push approach, […]

Why Is It So Hard To Get My Organization To Change? And What To Do About It.

June 4, 2020 in Culture, Leadership, Leading Change, Vision, Workplace culture /by Edith Onderick-Harvey

Why Is It So Hard To Get My Organization To Change? You know that change is hard. You’ve experienced it. Often, leaders feel that, with all the day-to-day demands on them, they just don’t have the time to be working on how to get to the future. It could be that the team is faced with a […]