Yale School of Management - Jeff Schwartz '87

"I went to Yale SOM as part of a joint degree with Princeton’s Woodrow Wilson School. My goal was to focus on management and leadership in private sector and public institutions. I can honestly say that I use the inter-disciplinary management perspectives I learned at SOM every day. As a senior partner in Deloitte Consulting working around the world, SOM’s focus on organizational behavior and industry and financial dynamics have been part of my professional perspective through twenty years of consulting including living and working in the United States, Kenya, Russia, and Belgium."

Jeff Schwartz is a senior consulting partner Deloitte Consulting. Based in Mclean, Virginia, Jeff is the global leader of the firm’s Organization and Change practice and the global and US leader for talent services. He has built and led one of the largest talent, organization, change and learning practices in the world — today including 1500 practitioners and $400 million in consulting revenue. Jeff is also co-founder of the firm’s CHRO (Chief Human Resource Officer) services practice and a frequent writer and speaker on issues at the nexus of business, talent, and organization change.

As a consulting partner and senior advisor for more than 20 years, he has led a broad range of projects with senior executives at global companies and public and not-for-profit agencies on strategic change, workforce and talent strategies, learning and development, technology and regulatory adoption, and culture and organization strategies.

Jeff has an undergraduate degree in history and government from Cornell University. He has an MPA from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs which was part of a joint degree with his MBA from Yale SOM. At the start of his career Jeff was a United States Peace Corps volunteer and trainer in Nepal, 1981-1983 and later one of the first associates directors of the Peace Corps in the Russian Federation, 1992-1993. He was also a Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Fellow where he was research director of the Youth Policy Institute from 1980-1981. Through involvement with the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial he has been involved since 1978 in the movement to promote youth and community service in the United States.

Jeff is on the board of the New Gate Montessori School in Sarasota Florida and the Chair of Communiteen in Sarasota County. He is also a national advisor to the Re-imagine Service initiative.