Edana is a Consulting Partner with The RBL Group, the leadership development consultancy, with broad experience in the professional services, consumer, healthcare and industrial products industries.  Prior to beginning her own HR strategy, talent and leadership consulting practice, she had worldwide responsibility for corporate Organization Development at Merck.  In that capacity, she had responsibility for global leadership/talent planning, performance management and development, and led consulting/coaching to the senior management team on issues of change leadership and organizational effectiveness.

Edana’s career includes senior OD/HR leadership roles in a number of leading organizations.  Prior to joining Merck, she was Vice President of Organization Development at Honeywell, providing OD leadership in the merger integration of the AlliedSignal and Honeywell organizations.  She has also served as Senior Director of Organization Development at Nabisco Brands and at Pepsi prior to that.  She began her career in OD/strategy as a member of Coopers & Lybrand’s global strategy consulting practice.

Edana now spends her time providing strategic HR, talent planning, organization development, strategy, executive coaching, change management and leadership consulting to major corporations and partnerships. 

In the area of non-profit, Edana provides her Leadership/OD experience and plays leadership roles on a number of non-profit boards including Matheny Medical and Educational Center and the Arc (the largest non profit serving persons with developmental disabilities) in their Government Legislative and Policy setting work.

Edana holds a M.B.A. from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a B.A. in economics from Tulane University.  She and her family live in Basking Ridge, New Jersey.