Organizational Effectiveness
Talent Management & Development
Culture Alignment / Employee Engagement
- A more robust leadership portfolio / pipeline
- Engaged and productive employees
- A culture that supports desired business outcomes
- Teams that collaborate effectively
- Employees with the soft skills to meet current and future organization needs
- Leaders who grow talent and amplify the impact of their teams
- Retaining employees, reducing the cost of turnover
We've helped organizations large and small focus on the work that matters to employees and leaders - while driving key business results!
Big Toe Consulting provides expertise and leadership to organizations looking to build capability and capacity at the individual, team, and enterprise levels. We partner with staff/line leaders and HR teams to develop organization interventions that help attract, grow, optimize, and retain talent.
How much more could you impact your organization with an Organization Development partner at your side?
Chief Human Resources Officer
Wholesale distribution company
"Lisa supported me with talent deliverables for the Board of Directors. She created a CEO Contingency Plan for the organization, which received significant praise from the Board. I regularly challenged Lisa with an organizational need, and she always outperformed. Lisa has a passion for her profession and it shows every day in her work."
"Lisa took on an interim Organization Development leadership role on my team, and was able to quickly learn the organization and make high quality contributions to our employee engagement and leadership development efforts."
SVP, HR
Global Professional services firm
- Interim Organization Development Leadership
- Building HR Capability
- Organization Capability Assessment
- Team Effectiveness
Organizational Effectiveness
- Succession Planning
- Talent Reviews
- Emerging Leader Coaching
- High Potential Programs
- Soft Skills Training Design & Facilitation
Talent Management & Development
- Engagement Strategies / Tactics
- Engagement Surveys: Analysis, Executive Summaries, Action Planning Workshops
- Culture Assessment & Alignment
Employee Engagement / Culture
Scale your HR department's impact:
Lisa Padden is the founder and principal of Big Toe Consulting. She is a former Fortune 500 Organization Development / Human Resources executive who spent her corporate career helping organizations, teams, and individuals be more effective. She has worked in multiple industries with global reach, including energy, technology, wholesale distribution, and healthcare. Clients have also included associations, non-profits, and municipalities.
Lisa holds a Master’s Degree in Human Resources from the University of South Carolina, and a BS in Commerce from the University of Virginia. She also earned a certificate in Evidence-Based Coaching from Fielding Graduate University.
Lisa believes in the unbridled potential of individuals, teams, and organizations. You can count on her for excellence, partnership, and enthusiasm
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Lisa Padden
Certificate - Evidence-Based Coaching
Bachelor's Degree - Business & Psychology
Master's Degree - Human Resources
Professional training & Certifications
CHRO
Healthcare association
I came to rely on Lisa over several years as an extension of our HR team. She increased our bandwidth and capabilities around culture and engagement, talent management, and leadership development.
Lisa played a significant role in helping us launch our new Values and integrate them into our culture. The combination of tools and learning activities she designed not only helped individual employees and teams incorporate Values-based behavior change into their day-to-day work, but helped us to create stronger managers who could lead their teams through the cultural change.
Through her work with the HR team, Lisa also developed trusted relationships with key leaders in the organization, taking on department-specific Values assessment/integration projects that our small HR team did not have the bandwidth to support.
Lisa supported us in analyzing our employee engagement data and created executive-level presentations that focused our leaders on key themes and potential priorities. She designed and facilitated employee engagement action planning working sessions for our senior leaders which were very well-received. These sessions guided our leaders to draft targeted action plans created with insights from data analysis and peer discussion.
In addition culture and engagement projects, Lisa designed and led informal manager learning sessions, created our leadership competency model for use in 360 assessment and succession planning, and designed and facilitated content for our high potential program.
I relied on Lisa as a thought partner and content creator that helped me move our organization forward. We won several HR awards in recent years, and Lisa played an integral role in several of our notable accomplishments.
My job is to make you look good. I'll solve that challenge, roll-out that deliverable, or facilitate that workshop to help you reach your business goals. Some clients choose to focus on a single project while other engage me across multiple deliverables.
Reach your goals
You have a lot on your plate. You'll have my time and attention dedicated to your project from Day One so you can focus on other challenges while feeling confident that key organizational development projects are still moving forward.
Get supported
Let's take 30 minutes to explore the challenge and outline an approach and scope to meet your needs. If your project would be better handled by another member of my network, I'd be happy to make a referral.
