Norm Tonina
Business & Organization Excellence Consulting

Norm Tonina joined Microsoft in 1993 after several years as a Senior Software Business Manager with Digital Equipment Corporation where he was responsible for pricing and licensing operating systems and software products. He then migrated from finance to human resources at Microsoft in 1999.  Norm has held a series of corporate HR functional leadership positions and has directed major strategic global HR initiatives in the areas of executive and high potential development and organization effectiveness.  He played a key role in launching Microsoft's People and Organization Capability (P&OC) center and has been responsible for HR strategy development and program and services deployment world-wide.  Norm most recently served as P&OC's General Manager,  leading and directing major change management initiatives focused on company culture, talent management, and leadership development.  He retired from Microsoft in May 2008 and now heads Business & Organization Excellence, a small consulting company focusing on strengthening strategy and organizational  alignment and increasing leadership effectiveness.  He has also been an adjunct faculty member for the graduate level HR program at Antioch University in Seattle and has taught at the University of Washington's Technology Management MBA Program.  Norm is part of a small team that is currently working with the University of Washington to design and launch a new advanced strategic HR certificate program. He will also join the faculty when the program debuts in 2010.

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