Mino Farooq Akhatar

Mino F. Akhtar recently joined LaMarsh & Associates, a change management consulting and training firm (www.lamarsh.com) as Director of Consulting.

Until June 2007, Ms. Akhtar was Director, Organization Effectiveness, Johnson & Johnson Consumer Group, New Jersey and before that with Pfizer Consumer Healthcare.  She was part of the change management team that integrated Pfizer Consumer Healthcare with J&J Consumer Group and co-led the employee engagement and culture integration activities.

She has over 25 years experience in hands-on project management of new technology initiatives, business process design and strategic change management, including 10 years of experience in human capital consulting, including leadership alignment, employee engagement, strategic alignment, innovation and culture change.  Mino has coached and trained thousands of employees, leaders and teams in organizational transformation.

Her clients have included American Express Company (New York City), Shearson Lehman Brothers (New York City), AT&T (New Jersey), Lucent Technologies, S.W.I.F.T. (Brussels, Belgium), Pershing, agencies in the state and federal sector of US government (Washington DC) and women’s non-profit groups such as Womens Funding Network (San Francisco).  She has spoken at major conferences on the subject of change, productivity and innovation along with writing articles and coauthoring a book. Mino did her undergraduate and graduate work in Computer Science in New York City, and has a Master’s in Human and Organizational Transformation from California Institute of Integral Studies.  She is currently getting certified in corporate coaching by the Coach University.  Mino also facilitates Jewish /Palestinian dialogue in New York City, and advises the American Society for Muslim Advancement, NYC, Women’s Fund of New Jersey, etc.