Eleanor Hegarty

Working globally and across sectors, she supports senior leaders and their teams in developing and strengthening capabilities that elevate organizational effectiveness. She applies psychometric methodology to build robust leadership assessment frameworks with proven validity. Her approach creates differentiated performance standards across career levels, forming structured pathways for leadership development and succession planning. At a team level, she frequently works with leaders on team effectiveness, with a focus on improving team dynamics, ways of working and enhancing collective performance. At an organizational level, she works on organizational transformation projects, leading initiatives that encompass organizational design, culture change, and strategic implementation. Her approach identifies and addresses critical talent implications directly linked to organizational strategy, ensuring alignment between people capabilities and business objectives.

Prior to joining Russell Reynolds Associates, Eleanor worked at the Irish Embassy in Paris, where she focused on policy analysis, strategic communications and inter-governmental relations.