Michelle Vanderlip

Michelle Vanderlip brings more than twenty-five years of depth to accelerating organization and individual strategic capacity. Her organizational consulting focuses on leadership development, including new leader assessment, selection and assimilation, succession planning and effective merger integration. Most recently, she served as an internal consultant to Baker & Hostetler, an 1100 person law firm partnership, in the capacity of leading the human resources and organizational development function.

She has also served as a consultant with Ernst & Young in New York City and Cleveland, assisting both internal and external clients with significant change initiatives. Ms. Vanderlip served on the merger integration task force that was instrumental in effectively integrating a newly formed professional services firm of 25,000 people and was involved with leadership and management development for the organization. She played a key role in developing the first retention strategies ever used systematically in the professional services environment.

In addition to deep and broad experience in the professional services sector, Ms. Vanderlip has knowledge and experience in organization development and human resources management in Fortune 300 manufacturing industry—Parker Hannifin Corporation and in the public sector at a municipal level.

Her clients include mid-size to Fortune 300 companies, including businesses and organizations in the financial services, health care, insurance, manufacturing and professional services sectors.

Ms. Vanderlip has a Bachelor of Science from Michigan State University, a Masters of Business Administration from Cleveland State University and postgraduate training from the internationally known Gestalt Institute of Cleveland. She is affiliated with the Human Resource Planning Society, the American Societies for Human Resources Management and Training and Development and the Organization Development Network. Michelle and her husband, John Gustat, live in a semi-rural community outside of Cleveland and are the active parents of three children, ages 28, 18, and 12.