Erik Van Slyke

Erik Van Slyke

Erik Van Slyke is a consultant with Grahall Partners, LLC. With nearly two decades in consulting and HR leadership roles, he advises executives for both domestic and global organizations, representing industries such as financial services, pharmaceuticals, manufacturing, high technology, retail, non-profit and government. His consulting expertise includes organizational development and change, operational transformation and HR and talent strategy.

Prior to Grahall, Erik was the Northeast Regional Leader for the Human Capital Management practice at Buck Consultants and held senior consulting roles with Deloitte Consulting and SHL USA. In those roles, he helped organizations manage change during technology and outsourcing implementations, integrate during mergers and acquisitions, align cultures to emerging business requirements and improve human resources strategy and operational effectiveness. In addition to consulting, Erik was the EVP of HR for Reuters Americas where he led the turnaround of its human resources function while directing all facets of HR throughout the United States, Canada and Latin America.

Erik’s articles and quotes on change, leadership and human resource management have appeared in publications that include The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Computerworld, CIO, HR Executive, HR Magazine and Workforce. He is a columnist for Training Magazine and a contributing editor for Hotel Business Review. Erik also is the author of Listening to Conflict (AMACOM Books), named by Soundview’s Executive Book Summaries as a Top 30 Business Book of 1999 and reissued in paperback on its tenth anniversary.

Erik teaches organizational behavior, management and human resources to MBA’s and undergraduates as an adjunct instructor of Centenary College. He also is on the faculty of the American Management Association where he teaches and develops courses on human resources, conflict management, negotiation and change.

Erik received his MBA in finance from the Kenan-Flagler Business School of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his bachelors of arts in psychology from Hobart College.

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