Huron Consulting Group Bolsters Higher Education Practice with Strategy and Operations Expert
June 09 2015 - 7:55AM
Business Wire
Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ: HURN), a leading provider of
business consulting services, today announced that Barbara Lombardo
has joined its Huron Education practice as a managing director.
Lombardo will serve as the leader for the Strategy & Operations
service line, which focuses on helping higher education
institutions better prepare for the future and achieve operational
excellence.
“Our Higher Education clients remain pressured to lower the cost
of education while improving student outcomes in a market that
faces more value scrutiny than ever before,” said Laura Yaeger,
executive vice president, Huron Education. “Barbara has a deep
background helping private and public colleges and universities
define their strategies, improve operating performance, and develop
talent to achieve higher levels of impact. We are pleased to
welcome her to Huron Education and the existing Strategy &
Operations service line.”
Lombardo has nearly 25 years of higher education change
management experience. She joins Huron Education from IBM Global
Business Services where she served as partner and North America
practice leader, Talent & Change Consulting. In that role she
helped clients navigate organizational change and optimize their
investment in talent. Prior to that position, Lombardo was a
director in the higher education practice at PwC Consulting.
Throughout her career, she has assisted companies, colleges and
universities, government agencies, and nonprofit organizations to
define their strategies, improve their processes, and develop their
people. In addition, she also brings to the role her expertise in
online learning, having led the design and operation of a major
online learning program for the U.S. Army, involving collaboration
with dozens of colleges and universities.
Lombardo has taught graduate courses in nonprofit management at
Lewis & Clark College and Portland State University. She
chaired the Board of Trustees of Montgomery School, and served on
the Board of Trustees of Lafayette College. She was recently
appointed to the Board of Directors of Gateway to College, a
national nonprofit dedicated to helping struggling students earn a
high school diploma and achieve college success.
About Huron Education
Huron Education is the premier provider serving the unique needs
of the higher education industry. Our team of professionals, each
with extensive knowledge and experience in the business of higher
education and academic medical centers, delivers comprehensive
services to the industry and partners with institutions to improve
business performance across the enterprise. Our professionals draw
from their experience working in the strategic, financial,
operational, technology, and regulatory aspects of higher education
to provide the most effective consulting and software solutions.
Huron Education has helped more than 90 of the nation’s top 100
research universities improve their performance so they can
continue their traditions of extraordinary achievement. Learn more
at www.huronconsultinggroup.com/highereducation or follow us on
Twitter: @Huron.
About Huron Consulting Group
Huron Consulting Group helps clients in diverse industries
improve performance, transform the enterprise, reduce costs,
leverage technology, process and review large amounts of complex
data, address regulatory changes, recover from distress and
stimulate growth. Our professionals employ their expertise in
finance, operations, strategy, analytics, and technology to provide
our clients with specialized analyses and customized advice and
solutions that are tailored to address each client's particular
challenges and opportunities to deliver sustainable and measurable
results. The Company provides consulting services to a wide variety
of both financially sound and distressed organizations, including
healthcare organizations, leading academic institutions, Fortune
500 companies, governmental entities and law firms. Huron has
worked with more than 450 health systems, hospitals, and academic
medical centers; more than 400 corporate general counsel; and more
than 400 universities and research institutions. Learn more at
www.huronconsultinggroup.com.
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