Dr. Lela Tepavac is the president and founder of Fit Leadership, a leadership consulting firm dedicated to helping companies and their leaders make the best choices for the top roles and build strong organizations with supportive cultures that attract exceptional people and fully leverage their talents and initiatives.

Dr. Tepavac was a Partner at Mercer Delta Consulting for thirteen years (1993 - 2006) working with executives of major corporations to strategically design and execute organizational change. Lela worked primarily in the areas of executive leadership assessment, CEO evaluation and succession, organization assessment and diagnosis, organization culture change, intellectual capital building, and change metrics. Lela has worked with numerous Fortune 500 companies across industries - media and entertainment, publishing, banking, airlines, retail, insurance, pharmaceuticals, medical, manufacturing, and high technology. Her clients included The New York Times; PepsiCo; United Airlines; Time Warner Company; Citibank; Credit Suisse Asset Management; American Reinsurance; Best Western International; Shell, Texaco, Saudi Aramco; Bristol-Myers Squibb; The Limited; International Paper; Lucent Technologies; Ford Motor Company; Corning, Unilever, Raytheon, etc.

Before joining Mercer Delta, Lela held a research position at Columbia University and worked in the areas of conflict resolution and mediation. Prior to that, she worked at the Institute for Social Policy in Zagreb, Croatia where she led a number of studies. Lela also consulted to several UN agencies on diverse topics.

Lela has been a contributing author to a number of articles. She is a current member of the American Psychological Association, NYHRPS, and Women on Wall Street.

Lela holds a PhD in social/organizational psychology from The Columbia University, New York, MA in Social Psychiatry from the School of Medicine Zagreb, Croatia, and BA in liberal arts from the University of Zagreb, Croatia. f. Dr. Tepavac has developed the proprietary Fit Leadership methodologies and models: "Leadership Due Diligence: Are the Leaders Fit to Lead?"; and "Leading Creative People: Building an Organization to Enable Innovation".

As a founder of Fit Leadership, Dr. Tepavac can work on both small targeted initiatives, or assemble a team of world-class consultants to tackle different organizational and leadership challenges.

Project Team

The Fit Leadership team includes a pool of experienced consultants and coaches with a wide range of expertise, including executive leadership assessment and development, CEO evaluation and succession, human capital leadership, organization architecture, board effectiveness, organization culture, and communications. We work collaboratively with clients in small teams to design and execute high-impact solutions for business challenges. We work with clients collaboratively in small teams to design and execute high-impact solutions for business challenges. As needed, Fit Leadership draws on a pool of experienced consultants and coaches with a wide range of expertise such as executive leadership assessment and development, CEO evaluation and succession, human capital leadership, organization architecture, board effectiveness, organization culture, and communications.

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