Ted Hoff

Ted Hoff is Vice President, Center for Learning and Development of the IBM Corporation.  Ted has responsibility for leadership development and succession planning across IBM and works directly with IBM's Chairman and CEO to ensure IBM has the leaders it needs now and for the future.  This responsibility encompasses assessing, developing, recruiting and selecting leaders for all business and technical leadership roles across IBM.  Ted is also responsible for designing and leading all learning and development initiatives across IBM, including experience-based job movement, initiative/action-based learning programs, frameworks and programs for defining careers in IBM and the interdisciplinary expertise necessary for IBmers to succeed in those careers.  IBM has won numerous awards for its leadership management practices and learning and development programs.  Ted oversees all aspects of human resource management for IBM's corporate support organizations globally, including the Research Division.  As a member of IBM's Integration and Values Team, Ted is one of the company's top 325 executives.

Ted serves as a Director and Chairman of the Compensation Committee for Courier Corporation, a printing and publishing company.  He also serves as a Director of the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation.

Prior to joining IBM, Ted was President of Leadership Development Inc., a management education and business consulting firm he founded in 1998.  Prior to that, he was a partner in The Center for Executive Development, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.  Ted was also member of the Harvard Business School faculty, teaching marketing and conducting research in strategy, marketing, and sales leadership.  He authored several Harvard Business Review articles, case studies and a textbook on marketing analysis.

Ted received his MBA from Harvard Business School, graduating as a Baker Scholar, and a BS degree from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, graduating Phi Beta Kappa.

Ted lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with his wife, Kathleen O’Connell, and their two sons, Thomas and Michael.