Linda A. Cyr has joined Cambridge Management Group (cmg625.com) as a senior adviser.
She draws on a diverse background to address healthcare-sector business problems at the intersection of strategy, leadership and entrepreneurship. She brings distinctive expertise in fostering collaboration among networks of leaders to develop and advance complex inter- and intra-organizational agendas.
Linda’s career spans corporate and academic settings. As an independent consultant, she has served senior leaders at such global corporations as Novartis, AB InBev and EY, as well as at startup firms. She teaches physicians in the Masters in Healthcare Management program at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, and has served as director of Corporate Health Leadership Programs within executive education at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Previously, Linda was a partner at Tapestry Networks, where she created and managed multi-stakeholder networks and working groups of C-suite pharmaceutical executives, government regulators and health-sector payers as well as clinical experts and patient advocates in eight European nations. Before joining Tapestry Networks, Linda was an assistant professor of entrepreneurship at the Harvard Business School and at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Early in her career, at GTE, Linda managed direct marketing teams, and designed and administered sales compensation plans and a company-wide sales management curriculum. Linda earned Ph.D. and M.S. degrees from Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations and a B.S. from the McIntire School of Commerce at the University of Virginia.