About Us

Executive Development Consulting is a consulting firm that specializes in the design, development and delivery of leadership development strategies, programs and coaching. Based in Easton, Pennsylvania, we have an extensive network of highly-skilled professionals around the world which enables us to promote best practices in leadership development programs and services.

Collaboration

Our business philosophy is to work on a few, targeted significant interventions in any given year so a client never has to compete for resources. We work closely with our clients to assess their challenges and opportunities, and design leadership development interventions to address strategic business issues. Each client’s needs are identified and customized approaches are designed to resolve business issues and achieve their goals. Although each client’s needs are unique, we design each project with a consistent approach. Our collaborative process includes:

Founder and Principal

Ronald Bossert, D.Ed.

Ronald Bossert is the founder and Principal of Executive Development Consulting. He is a leadership development consultant with over 25 years of experience who is considered to be a pioneer and one of the most prominent experts in the field of identifying and developing leaders. He has also taught in Columbia University’s Senior Executive Program and Cornell University’s Management Development Program.

Prior to 2005, Ron was Director, Management Education and Development at Johnson & Johnson, World Headquarters, New Brunswick, New Jersey with global responsibility for executive development and coaching programs.

He joined Johnson & Johnson in 1989 as Manager, Corporate Management Training and Development. He was responsible for designing and delivering customized advanced management programs worldwide for key executives which included four regional offerings: European executives at the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) in Lausanne, Switzerland, North American and Latin American executives at the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois and Asia/Pacific executives at the University of California at Berkeley. He also managed the Johnson and Johnson Senior Management Program in the Asia/Pacific Region at the Asian Institute of Management in Manila, Philippines.

Later, he was promoted to Director, Corporate Management Training and Development with responsibility for researching, designing, building support and delivering all Executive Development Programs worldwide. These action-learning programs included high potential executives identified through the succession planning process and were designed to provide executives with a global, multicultural developmental experience dealing with a strategic Johnson and Johnson business issue. Program offerings were scheduled in all four regions of the world.

In 1998, he was appointed Director, Management Education and Development, and assumed responsibility for developing executive leadership programs for the high potential executive population worldwide. He managed the design and delivery of J&J's Transition Leadership Forums, New Business Leader Programs and Transitions Coaching based on a Johnson and Johnson Transitions Leadership Development model, which he developed working with a leading transitions expert from the Harvard Business School.

Before joining Johnson & Johnson, Bossert worked for Mack Trucks from 1984 to 1989 as Supervisor, Management Assessment and Development, Section Manager, Human Resources Development and Training, and Manager, Employee relations. From 1975 to 1984, he served as a college and university administrator and faculty member at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania and Cedar Crest College in Allentown, Pennsylvania.

His recent publications include "Johnson and Johnson: Executive Development and Strategic Business Solutions through Action Learning" in Business Driven Action Learning, 1st ed., ed. Yury Boshyk (London: Macmillan Press, 2000) and "Johnson and Johnson Strategic Thinking Task Forces," in Embedding Strategic Thinking: Addressing the Need to Develop Line Strategists," Corporate Strategy Board Executive Inquiry, May 1999.

He holds a D.Ed. in higher education administration from The Pennsylvania State University, a master's degree in counseling and psychology and a bachelor's degree in sociology from Kutztown University of Pennsylvania.