Tania Lennon

Tania is a ‘pracademic’ whose goal is to support value creation and sustained competitive advantage in organisations by enabling them to identify, harness and amplify talent within their organization. Tania’s goal is to unlock latent potential to enable leaders to thrive in today’s dynamic environment and to create more value for their organizations. Tania built the Strategic Talent Lab at IMD, which looked at how talent demands and talent management needs to shift for an AI-enabled world: she established and led the global Talent Expertise Centre for commercial consultants ZS Associates; she led the talent and leadership development practice in Northern Europe for Korn Ferry as a Senior Client Partner; and, finally, she worked with occupational psychologists Pearn Kandola in assessment and development. Tania is lead author of the book Future Ready Talent (Kogan Page, 2026), which offers an evidence-based perspective on how organisations can translate talent to value in a dynamic commercial environment. An organizational psychologist, Tania has been awarded for her high-impact leader and HR development programs and for her innovation in talent assessment. Her teaching style is dynamic, experiential and thought-provoking.

About the work/experience

Tania is a ‘pracademic’ whose goal is to support value creation and sustained competitive advantage in organisations by enabling them to identify, harness and amplify talent within their organization. Tania’s goal is to unlock latent potential to enable leaders to thrive in today’s dynamic environment and to create more value for their organizations. Tania built the Strategic Talent Lab at IMD, which looked at how talent demands and talent management needs to shift for an AI-enabled world: she established and led the global Talent Expertise Centre for commercial consultants ZS Associates; she led the talent and leadership development practice in Northern Europe for Korn Ferry as a Senior Client Partner; and, finally, she worked with occupational psychologists Pearn Kandola in assessment and development. Tania is lead author of the book Future Ready Talent (Kogan Page, 2026), which offers an evidence-based perspective on how organisations can translate talent to value in a dynamic commercial environment. An organizational psychologist, Tania has been awarded for her high-impact leader and HR development programs and for her innovation in talent assessment. Her teaching style is dynamic, experiential and thought-provoking.
•Tania draws on her deep subject matter expertise combined with more than 25 years of consulting experience helping organisations solve real-world challenges. Her research focuses on the changing demands on talent and organisations for today’s world as well as the design and validation of innovative approaches to talent assessment, both topics on which she has worked extensively with over 300 clients in the last five years. In addition to her extensive qualifications in organizational psychology, Tania also holds a degree in economics, enabling her to work at the intersection of business and people strategy.
•Tania designed and delivered a number of signature development leader programs, such as the Korn Ferry Matrix Leaders program, the NHS Mary Seacole program and the Women2Lead program for IMD/Konica Minolta, which won a gold Brandon Hall award and an HR Excellence award in 2025.
•She teaches the Talent Management module on the B2B Strategy and Effectiveness in the Digital Age program at Kellogg Business School, where she is part of the Faculty.
•Tania has developed and led custom programs on people topics including Building Future Ready Organisations, Strategic Workforce Design, Strategic Communication for High Impact, Future Ready Talent Management, Reshaping Organisations and Leadership for the AI Age and Future Ready Leaders.
•At IMD, she also worked on the design and delivery of high potential programs, including the flagship Pathway to C-Suite open program as well as custom programs for clients such Sandoz, Konica Minolta and the LEGO Group.
•Clients span a range of industries and include companies such as Novo Nordisk, Unilever, Bombardier, Santander, SEK Bank, Maaden, Accenture, Asyad Group, Genentech, Natwest, Curium, SAP, Nestle and Maybank.