Margaret O'Hanlon

Margaret turns great HR ideas in valuable business results. She sees your challenges through executives' eyes and understands employees: How they think about your business and how to build a partnership with them that produces results for your company and each employee.

Founding re:Think Consulting in 1999, Margaret has helped to solve a range of HR and change management issues for companies like Barclays Global, E&J Gallo, Intuit, Ipsen U.S. Operations, McKesson and the Stupsi Foundation.

Whether you’re starting from the top, getting better focus, or making urgent changes, she's walked in your shoes. Selected projects include:
• Culture development, employee research and organizational communications for Life Science start-up
• Executive and employee pay-for-performance communications, manager training and tools, for major technology corporation
• Executive communications on long-term compensation and performance expectations for global retail corporation
• Pension redesign communications for U.S. subsidiary of a global insurance firm
• Communications audit, focus groups, interviews, strategy design, implementation, organizational communications for Bay Area non-profit

Prior to re:Think Consulting, Margaret was a Principal with Towers Watson (formerly Towers Perrin), a global consulting firm, where she specialized in human resources and organizational communications for over 15 years. Her assignments addressed the “people” aspects of compensation program redesigns, Total Rewards strategies, career paths, performance improvement and organizational change including start-ups, early stage companies, mergers and acquisitions. Her clients included Chevron, Johnson & Johnson and Toyota.

Margaret began her undergraduate work at NYU and transferred to Indiana University, Bloomington where she received a B.A. in English with honors. She received a M.S. and Ed.S. in Instructional Technology from the same University.

Active in the Bay Area business community, Margaret is a faculty member and regular speaker for the Northern California Human Resources Association (NCHRA), World@Work and Bay Area Compensation Association (BACA). She is a Board member of the International Association of Business Communicators (IABC)/Pacific Plains Region and a Blue Ribbon judge for the IABC's annual global awards program.

Margaret is a regular contributor to Compensation Cafe, an award winning HR blog that delivers straight talk, original thinking and caffeinated discussion on all things compensation.