Dr. Teresa Wallace | Principal Consultant, Portfolio Talent Advisory
My job is to help organizations see the leader behind the resume. Not who they've been on paper, but who they'll actually be in the role, under pressure, when it counts.
For more than 20 years, I've advised C-level and senior leaders across private equity, global manufacturing, energy, retail, CPG, and healthcare. This work is built on two things — the rigor to assess what's actually there and the courage to say it clearly. In that time I've built exactly one reputation: I tell leaders what they need to hear, not what they want to.
On assessment. The work goes well beyond what a resume shows or an interview reveals. By integrating structured interviews, psychometric data, and a deep read of your organizational context, the picture that emerges is specific and actionable. How this leader actually makes decisions under pressure. Where execution will accelerate or stall. Which risks will surface once authority and expectations are real.
On coaching. "I hear you in the back of my head." When a client says that, I know the work has landed — their patterns have been interrupted and real growth has begun. That's the goal. Not insight that fades when the engagement ends, but a shift in how a leader thinks, decides, and acts when it actually counts.
On the work that shaped me. That work has taken me around the world, including a $13B national energy enterprise in Saudi Arabia, and those experiences fundamentally shaped how I think about leadership, context, and what it actually takes to perform when the stakes are high.
I hold an Ed.D. from the University of Pennsylvania's Chief Learning Officer program, am a credentialed coach through the International Coaching Federation, and a U.S. Army veteran who learned early that leadership accountability isn't abstract.
On what fuels the work. When I'm not advising senior leaders, I'm somewhere in the world — hiking, biking, or at a Lionel Richie concert. Preferably all three in the same week.
