Brad Hall Biography

Brad Hall has been a leadership and organization executive for some of the world’s most recognized companies.

Brad’s most recent corporate position was as Senior Vice President, Global Talent Management for ABN AMRO Bank in Amsterdam – one of the largest 20 financial institutions in the world.

Prior to ABN AMRO, Brad worked on in Tokyo for IBM’s Asia-Pacific region where he held the largest corporate executive and organization development role of any organization in Asia (60,000 employees and $25B in revenue). During his tenure, IBM was twice ranked #1 in the world in Chief Executive Magazine’s “Top Company for Leaders”. IBM’s leaders are consistently regarded as some of the very best in the world.

Upon returning to IBM headquarters in New York, Brad served as executive coach and consultant for two of IBMs six global business unit general managers and their executive leadership teams (i.e., IBM Personal Computers and IBM Semiconductors). He was also assigned to design the organization and corporate culture for Lenovo, one of the first global companies in the history of China.

Previous to IBM, Brad was Director, HR and Training for AT&T Global Services, a $12B unit of AT&T where eighteen months after he began his tenure, AT&T Global Services HR placed second in the world in the PriceWaterhouseCoopers/Linkage award for “HR Innovation” and his training organization won a Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) award for “Best Corporate Training Program.”

Brad also served as Director, Organization Design for McDonald's Corporation five years out of graduate school where he became McDonald’s first organization development professional.

Brad now consults and teaches at Duke University’s Corporate Education program.

Brad completed his Ph.D. in Industrial-Organizational Psychology at Tulane University with a dissertation focusing on people management practices of Japanese and U.S. corporations. He speaks fluent Japanese.