Morgan McKeown

For more than 25 years, Morgan has been partnering with executives to improve performance and enhance leadership.  In the past few years, his clients have included American Healthcare Services, Applebee’s International, Avaya, Bertelsmann, Time Warner, Gartner Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Thomson Learning, and a much larger number of mid-sized and start-up organizations. 

Morgan founded Cor Business in 2001. His prior five years were devoted to executive search, as a Senior Partner at Heidrick & Struggles and as the Founder and Managing Partner of the New York office of Christian & Timbers.  Earlier in his career, he held consulting and leadership roles at Andersen Consulting and at Mercuri Urval, a European-based consultancy specializing in selection, organizational development, and executive assessment. 

Throughout his career, Morgan has held general management positions in different industries and also served as the Vice President of Executive Development for a leading healthcare firm.  In addition, he enjoyed eight years in the advertising business, managing Procter & Gamble accounts for Saatchi & Saatchi and as Vice President, Human Resources for another major international agency. 

Morgan graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with B.S and M.S. degrees in Management Engineering.

Jeffrey Hull, Ph.D.

Jeff has been partnering with senior business executives and supporting major corporations in the development of leadership talent for over twenty-five years.  His special focus has been on implementing custom programs designed to develop senior specialists into broad-based executive leadership roles.  In addition, Jeff has developed programs to enhance creativity and build relationships across functional teams such as sales, marketing, and technical product development.  His clients include AT&T, Bankers Trust, Business Objects, Banque Paribas, and Axa Financial.

Starting his career in management development and leadership training, Jeff has held a variety of corporate executive positions, including Director of Training and Development and Director of Recruitment for EDS Corporation, as well as Director of Human Resources for the international strategy consulting firm, Booz Allen Hamilton.  In the late 90’s Jeff founded leadership development and organizational consulting firm, TGE Associates (The Global Edge), where he worked with major banking and high-technology clients in New York, London, San Francisco, and Hong Kong.

Jeff graduated from Bowdoin College with a B.A. in Philosophy and also holds an MBA from the University of Maryland. In 2003, he rounded out his background in human development by completing a Ph.D. program in Psychology.

Julie McKeown

Julie is an accomplished business leader who has consistently been recognized for her results as an operations leader, human resources executive, coach, and business advisor.  She joined Cor Business in 2004 following five years at IBM, where she held a variety of human resource leadership positions. 

In her most recent role, Julie managed a large team of HR business partners providing support to 12,000 people in a $4 billion business within IBM Global Services.  In this position, she partnered with senior executives to ensure effective talent management, leadership performance, succession planning, executive and employee compensation, and all other aspects of human resource management.

Previously, Julie was the North America Talent Manager for IBM’s $11 billion Sales and Distribution business unit.  In this role, she led the unit’s efforts in talent strategy, talent acquisition, employee and management development, diversity programs, and labor cost management.  When Julie first joined IBM, she was part of the Global Services Commercial Alliances division, where she led the HR transition for IBM’s largest global account at the time. 

Julie originally came to IBM through the acquisition of Technology Services Solutions Corporation, a joint venture between Kodak and IBM, where she held a progression of HR generalist roles.  Julie started her career in a general management role as she managed a Thrifty Car Rental franchise where she tripled the operation and started up new locations.

Originally from North Carolina, Julie received her BS degree from Appalachian State University.  Throughout her career, she has been extremely active in professional and personal development activities.  She is a skilled public speaker and served as a facilitator and coach for a large non-profit educational organization for five years.