Linda Hyden, President /CEO

Linda’s care and concern for people has always been a hallmark of her career. Not only experienced in collaboration building, strategic planning and implementation, organizational and board development, her work includes human capital development, human resource management, and transformational coaching in the areas of leadership, small business, life and wellness coaching. Linda also has extensive professional experience working with nonprofit organizations, social services, and health care services. Her fields of interest include leadership advancement and coaching, capacity building, project management, strategic planning, and human capital development. Formerly a high-ranking administrator for a nationally recognized private liberal arts university and later at a prominent community college, today, Linda’s interests have expanded into wellness coaching with emphasis on self esteem and body image healing.

In addition to a Masters degree in Management and Supervision with a specialization in Human Resource Management, Linda holds a Bachelors degree in Social Work with extensive specialized training in interpersonal and group dynamics. Her credentials include the Senior Professional of Human Resources certification and the Lifeforming® Leadership Coaching Certification, aligned with the International Federation of Coaches® certification criteria. She is also certified through Grief Coach Academy, From Heartbreak to Happiness® Grief Coach Program. Among her numerous awards and professional recognition she has been honored as Citizen of the Year and Woman of Accomplishment.

Linda has served on various boards of trustees for both human/social service and health care organizations. She has served as the Chairperson of the Mercy Health Partners and Western Ohio Regional Board of Trustees, a member of the Board of Trustees for the Community Mercy Health Partners, part of Catholic HealthCare Partners, one of the largest health care systems in the United States. She currently serves as Chairperson for the Children's Rescue Center Board and is a member of the CitiLookout Board.

Our Mission

The mission of Hyden Consulting is to “support, encourage, and lead the development of executives, entrepreneurs, and leaders.” We live this mission by providing a “tool box” of resources that help leaders define and achieve their visions based on their values. One of our goals is to help leaders improve the performance and effectiveness of their organizations. We have helped many organizations identify and resolve complex human resource problems, coached leaders to reach new heights, facilitated diverse coalitions of people toward shared visions, assessed and developed comprehensive training and development strategies, and led change initiatives. 

We are dedicated to providing our customers with the highest quality consulting services possible; to that end, we have developed a resource bank of highly qualified entrepreneurs and leaders in their respective fields to work as independent contractors on a project-by-project basis. In this way, a consultant’s expertise and professional style is aligned with the individual needs of the leader with whom we are working. The Hyden Team of consultants is a group of experienced, highly skilled, caring professionals with expertise in human resource (people) management, strategic planning and strategy formulation, project management, coalition building and facilitation, organizational and leadership development, and conflict resolution. We sincerely believe each customer is unique; therefore, each team of consultants is assembled based upon the special needs of the project.

Our focus on people and our commitment to excellence is at the heart of everything we do. We continually challenge ourselves to deliver the best professional services we can.

We measure our success by the success of the people we serve and against our core values, they include:

Listening and honest communication, identifying and leveraging individual strengths, flexibility, intellectual curiosity, collaboration and partnerships, continuous improvement, honesty, good humor, celebrating accomplishments,

accountability, integrity, and excellence.

Hyden Consulting, Inc., provides customized human resource consulting, strategic planning, community collaboration building, organizational development, project management, leadership coaching, and related services for nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, and companies in Ohio and throughout the United States. Since our founding in 1989, our mission has been to help individuals and leaders achieve their personal and business goals by engaging the human spirit. People are at the “heart of the solution.” We believe in building, strengthening, supporting, and improving human relationships so that growth and development of organizations can occur and life success can be attained.