thomas.linquist@LeadershipLyceum.com
+1 312-929-0218

Tom is the founder and Managing Director of Lyceum Leadership Consulting. He focuses on senior-level search assignments in the industrial sector including chief executive officer and board of director roles within the power, utility, infrastructure, EPC, manufacturing and services sectors. His areas of specialty consulting include board experiential composition and succession planning (especially in the context of complex corporate situations including IPO, shareholder activism, take privates, and bankruptcy emergence) and C-level executive succession planning (including recruitment, assessment, and development of succession candidates across all functional areas of a corporation). Tom has a reputation in the industry for success in bringing diversity upward through the executive ranks and into the boardroom.

Tom is the host of the firm’s podcast Leadership Lyceum: A CEO’s Virtual Mentor® featuring interviews with CEOs and directors of boards and their lessons learned in leading through dynamic and dramatic corporate situations such as M&A, IPO, rebranding, shareholder activism, to name a few.

Tom has thirty-two years of industry and consulting experience. Prior to forming Lyceum Leadership Consulting, he developed as a leadership and search expert over more than a decade at three of the top five global executive search firms. Before his career in executive search, he was a management consultant in energy and utilities at Accenture and Vice President of Finance & Treasurer at Peoples Energy Corporation, where he led corporate treasury as well as the Project and Structured Finance unit. Earlier in his career, Tom was Vice President, Power & Infrastructure Group at ABN AMRO Bank and District Engineer, Mid-Continent Region for Shell Oil Company.

Tom received a BS in civil engineering from Texas A&M University and an MBA from the University of Chicago’s Graduate School of Business (Booth).  He was a Certified Public Accountant in the State of Illinois.

donna.frakes@LeadershipLyceum.com
+1 312-929-0197

Donna is a Director at Lyceum Leadership Consulting. Donna specializes in advising clients in a broad spectrum of industry sectors including utilities, energy, general manufacturing, healthcare, chemicals, building materials, natural resources, and hospitality. Areas of expertise include executive recruitment, leadership assessment, CEO succession planning, and Board effectiveness. Prior to joining Lyceum, Donna was an Engagement Manager at one of the largest global executive search firms. During her five years in the firm’s Global Industrial Practice, she gained expertise in building leadership teams across all functions and worked with clients to build new and existing Boards.

Before her career in executive search, Donna has 20+ years of marketing and consulting experience, most recently with an information management company. She partnered with Fortune 500 companies, as well as small and medium-sized businesses across industries, to design and implement systems that greatly improved secure and efficient access to mission-critical information.

Donna earned a BSc from the University of Toronto majoring in Psychology and Physiology, and an MBA from York University majoring in Marketing and Finance.

hemali.bhandiwad@LeadershipLyceum.com

Hemali Bhandiwad is an Executive Director with Lyceum Leadership Consulting. Hemali specializes in the execution of executive and board searches for clients across a wide range of industry sectors including financial services, healthcare, utilities, energy, manufacturing, and nonprofits.

Prior to joining Lyceum, Hemali had a 15-year career in banking and management consulting. As a banker, she worked in the payments and commercial cards division of a major US bank. As a management consultant, she served healthcare, industrial, and nonprofit clients with people-centered management solutions, such as talent management strategy, developing change management capability and competency in executive leaders, compensation program design, and leadership assessment and development programs.

Hemali received a bachelor’s degree in finance and marketing from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, an MBA from Indiana’s Kelley School of Business, and a master’s degree in urban education leadership from The Broad Center (now a part of the Yale School of Management).  Hemali is also certified in the application and interpretation of the suite of tools in the Hogan Assessments System.