Our Story
Leaders change the world. Learning changes leaders.
Founded by Larry Clark, former global talent development executive in the technology and telecom industries, Chroma Leadership was born out of a conviction that effective leaders are levers of change in the world, and effective talent development can grow great leaders. In working as a talent development practitioner, and as a consultant to talent development leaders globally, Larry found that the most common impediment to growing great leadership in organizations was not a lack of commitment, inadequate funding or poor execution. It was a lack of practical strategies that focused the talent development efforts toward clear, measurable objectives, and aligned the efforts to the business and talent strategy.
Seeing this foundational gap across so many organizations, in 2015, Larry published a primer on how to build a leadership development strategy as a chapter in the Association for Talent Development (ATD) Talent Handbook. That led to opportunities to speak and work with hundreds of talent and HR leaders around the world on what became Chroma’s fundamental principles of leadership development strategy, in addition to consulting on the latest thinking on leadership and management.
Our Founder
For more than 30 years, Larry has devoted his career to making leaders, teams and organizations more productive, more resilient and better able to navigate complexity and uncertainty. His experience spans work as a practitioner of talent development, talent management, and organizational development, and as an executive leading large global teams.
Larry previously served as the Managing Director of Global Learning Services at Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP), where he led the design and implementation of executive and leadership development experiences for HBSP clients worldwide, with a focus on driving learning experience innovation and bringing Harvard’s most current research in leadership and management to client solutions. While there, Larry was a frequent content contributor to HBSP’s Insights on the web, as well as an expert presenter and facilitator at Harvard events around the world on topics ranging from navigating complexity and uncertainty to purpose-driven leadership and leadership development strategy.
Prior to joining Harvard, Larry served as Vice President of Talent & Professional Development at Comcast Corporation, where he oversaw talent management and succession planning, leadership and executive development, and learning and development for all enterprise functions across the 91,000-person cable organization.
Prior to joining Comcast, Larry spent 12 years in learning, organizational development and operations roles at Microsoft, first in the US, and then leading all learning content development for Microsoft’s global field force.
Larry has built his reputation as a trusted advisor and advocate for talent leaders. His expertise in the content and practice of leadership, his unique perspectives on leadership development and talent management, and his experience as an executive leading large teams enables him to help talent leaders identify new approaches to transform how they use talent development to improve business productivity, accelerate the leadership pipeline, and enable a healthy organizational culture.