Affiliates

HAL MOVIUS, PH.D.
Hal Movius is Director of Assessment, Coaching and Training Services at the Consensus Building Institute (CBI). A social and clinical psychologist, Hal designs and delivers tailored learning and organizational development solutions to leaders of global organizations. He also co-teaches Technology Negotiation, an executive seminar offered through the Harvard-MIT Program on Negotiation (PON).

Hal has authored or co-authored more than a dozen negotiation simulations and papers on the effectiveness of negotiation training, negotiating cross-cultural business deals. A forthcoming book with Prof. Lawrence Susskind will provide advice to leaders on building world-class negotiating organizations.

Recent clients include Hewlett-Packard, McDonald's, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Ernst & Young, Sabre Holdings, AllState, and Macromedia. Recent talks include featured presentations at the Global Institute for Leadership Development and at the Women In Leadership Summit.

Previously Hal served as Senior Consultant at Linkage (a consulting and training firm); consultant at Auerbach Associates (a leadership search firm); Research Associate at both Harvard Business School; and coach at Harvard's Kennedy School. He graduated from Harvard University in 1987 with a B.A. in History and earned a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology at the University of Arizona in 2000, completing his clinical internship at Cambridge Hospital / Harvard Medical School.

LINDA J. BATTAGLINI, M.S., M.B.A.
Linda is a senior Health Care executive with over twenty-five years of experience in strategic planning, facilities planning, and business development for multi-hospital systems. Her expertise includes organizational re
configuration and repositioning. Linda has been recognized as a creative designer of initiatives that generate grant funding or new revenues, or that secure hard-won regulatory approvals.

Since 2005, Linda has handled a number of consulting and interim management positions. In her current role as Special Assistant to the President for Governance at Emerson Hospital (Concord, MA), she is leading the Board through an assessment of governance processes, focusing on a shift toward a policy and strategy agenda. Also at Emerson, she led Geriatric Services planning to convert a community need study into community-hospital collaboration and generate clinical service changes.

As Interim Director Strategic Development at North Shore Medical Center, a community teaching hospital of Partners Healthcare in Boston, Linda supported business planning for a major ambulatory center and market strategy for community/academic center collaboration. She led a program reconfiguration and cost reduction strategy, strategic review of a strategic joint venture, and operational redesign plan for a key physician service. Linda has also been a senior consultant with The Burlington Group (MA), conducting medical staff and program planning, and assisting a seven hospital system in Indiana reorganize into five regional markets as well as.

From 1997 to 2005, Linda was Senior Vice President for Strategic Planning and Marketing at Hallmark Health System, a $250 million system formed by the merger of four community hospitals north of Boston in 1997. Her areas of leadership at Hallmark Health included strategic planning, business and network development, public affairs and marketing, and government relations.

She served 17 years as Vice President/Corporate Planner at United Health Services in Binghamton, New York, a $450 million, three hospital system. At United Health Services, she led strategic and facility master planning that reconfigured the three campuses and brought major tertiary services to the community. She was Project Director for two major grants from the John A. Hartford Foundation of New York City for one of the first product line management and information systems in healthcare, and for system-wide case management, which was selected as a national model.

Linda holds an MS/MBA in Accounting from the School of Management and a BA in Mathematics from Harpur College of Binghamton University. Her publications include: "Advanced Practice Nurses as Case Managers for Internists" in Enhancing Primary Care of the Elderly, edited by F. Williams, E. Netting, Garland Publishers 1997 (with J. Czerenda). She is the immediate past President of New England Society for Healthcare Strategy and served two terms as President of the National Alumni Association for Binghamton University.

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