Roselinde Torres is a senior partner and managing director in BCG's New York office. She joined BCG in 2006 and is a senior leader in the firm’s People & Organization practice area and the global leader for the leadership topic. Roselinde is a member of BCG’s Americas management team and she has given a TED talk on the "What it Takes to Be a Great Leader" as part of a series of talks curated by TED and BCG. Roselinde has been a BCG Fellow since 2009. Her research topic is leadership. Roselinde has been a long-term advisor to CEOs, senior executives, and boards on issues of executive leadership, team effectiveness, organization design, culture change, and large-scale change implementation. She has consulted across a wide range of industries, including consumer products, financial services, health care, industrial goods, retail, and technology. Roselinde is a frequent speaker at national business forums on organizational transformation and leadership and has authored publications on twenty-first-century leadership, organizing for growth, executive team effectiveness, M&A cultural integration, and CEO succession. She has been featured in the major business press, including BusinessWeek, the Economist, the Corporate Board, Chief Executive, Fast Company, and Institutional Investor. She serves on the selection committee for U.S.News & World Report’s America’s Best Leaders and is a trustee of the Wildlife Conservation Society. Prior to working at BCG, Roselinde was a senior partner at Mercer Delta Consulting, where she also held a number of U.S. and global leadership roles. She also led internal consulting teams at Johnson & Johnson and Connecticut Mutual Life. At Johnson & Johnson, she was a member of the senior leadership team of Ethicon Endo-Surgery. Roselinde holds an MS degree in human resource development from the American University/NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science. She has a BA with honors in English and Spanish from Middlebury College.