Sheila Q. Cox helps companies target, achieve, and sustain new levels of performance. Her consulting approach begins with common vision and goals that capture the imagination and mobilize the spirit. These goals are realized through integrated plans with achievable milestones that simultaneously transform people, process, and technology. Ms. Cox also heads Performance Horizons, a management consulting firm dedicated to developing and implementing strategies for performance improvement. She helps companies build their capacity to adapt rapidly to change, so they can continually respond to new challenges.

Prior to forming Performance Horizons in 1994, Ms. Cox was a Senior Manager at Nolan, Norton & Co., an information technology firm of KPMG Peat Marwick. At Nolan, Norton/KPMG, she assisted executives with Fortune 500 companies in achieving enhanced business performance. Her work included business process reengineering and organizational change management engagements with financial services, government, and high technology executives. She continues to teach business process reengineering and organizational change management to KPMG managers and partners.

Ms. Cox worked at IBM between 1976 and 1988. She held a variety of management positions in the large systems marketing division, ranging from systems development to training to technical support.

Ms. Cox was awarded a Bachelor of Arts, cum laude in Psychology and Social Relations from Harvard University in 1976. While working full time for IBM, she earned a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Chicago in 1983. She is listed in Who’s Who Worldwide and The World Who’s Who of Women.

Ms. Cox has spoken on the challenge of managing organizational change to many groups including the Financial Executives Institute and the Massachusetts Bankers Association.