Alaina Love

Alaina Love, president of Purpose Linked Consulting (PLC), an international leadership and organization consulting firm, knows first-hand that when employees are passionate about their jobs, organizations gain a competitive advantage. Love has leveraged twenty-six years of experience as a corporate executive inside a large multinational firm and consultant to Fortune 500 firms as well as independent companies and hospitals. Prior to founding PLC, Love spent more than twelve years at Merck & Co., Inc. where she was executive director of human resources (worldwide), a research scientist and clinical researcher. Love now provides a broad range of human resource, organization development and executive coaching services to clients, including The Passion Profiler™, a comprehensive tool used by PLC to assess employees’ work-related passions. She is the co-author of The Purpose Linked Organization: How Passionate Leaders Inspire Winning Teams and Great Results, (McGraw-Hill). Alaina also writes a leadership column for BusinessWeek.com entitled, Leading With Purpose and is a Leadership Panelist for The Washington Post.