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Linda
Newton
 Executive Director
(310) 794-5959 tel
(310) 794-6410 fax
harrt@irle.ucla.edu
Linda Newton is the executive director of HARRT at UCLA. In this
role, she has increased the membership and grown the organization into
a senior executive HR forum with a global and strategic focus for
Southern California, the world’s 7th largest economy. By
combining a member-based approach with current faculty research, she
has developed programs that are both contemporary and pertinent to
senior Human Resource executives. Topics include: Innovation,
Leadership, Talent and Knowledge Management, Diversity and Inclusion,
Global Forces of Change, Workforce and Succession Planning, Employee
Engagement, Managing Risk and Opportunities in a Changing Workplace,
Challenges of Managing Information, People and Organizational
Boundaries, and Developing a Human Capital Value Proposition.
Linda has built her career on applying principles of marketing and
human resource management based on her academic background in business
and the social sciences. Her special acumen as a creative thinker
has led to inventive approaches in programming, content development,
and problem solving. Her expertise in relationship management and
ability to balance power and politics among multiple constituencies has
contributed to her success in building networks and strategic alliances
that bring the best together from and result in mutal benefits to both
academic and business communities. She is able to recognize and
act on opportunities, taking each program she has directed to the next
level.
At the UCLA Anderson School of Management, she elevated the MBA
capstone experience into a strategic problem-solving experience that
integrated the first year academic curriculum with real-world problems
and professional experience to form a multi-disciplinary analytical and
leadership program. She recognized the globalization of the
economy and took the program international with studies in Western and
Eastern Europe, Russia, Japan, Taiwan, Africa, Mexico, South America,
and Palau in the 1990’s. She introduced into the curriculum
workshops and seminars on creative problem solving, client-based
consulting and communication, self-directed teamwork, evidence-based
logic, and integrated strategic thinking and analysis into the program.
She coached faculty and students during stages of issue identification,
project development, and conflict resolution. She infused into
the program the importance of understanding context and the process of
building a persuasive and logical business case for change with
actionable recommendations.
Prior to returning to UCLA as a program director, Linda worked in
Development at the University of Washington for the College of Arts and
Sciences and the School of Business, increasing the involvement of
alumni and leaders from the business community as well as private
funding to the University. She also worked with the Los Angeles
United Way, raising and distributing funds for social service
organizations in LA County. She began her career as a teacher in
mathematics at a private school in which she headed the math department
and originated special projects which helped students see the relevance
of math in current and historical contexts and later worked at ARCO on
projects to increase organizational effectiveness after receiving her
MBA from the UCLA Anderson School.
A native of California, Linda enjoys the outdoors where she is home at
the beach or hiking in the mountains. She is an avid reader,
movie buff, and exercise enthusiast. Above all, she enjoys a good
sense of humor and the gratification she receives from the people she
knows and the values to brings to her work, family, and friends.
Areas of interest: Maximizing Human Potential and Organizational
Performance; Management and Social Innovation; Aligning Strategy,
Values and Capabilities, Creativity in Problem Solving; Dynamic Change
and the Future of Management.
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