Accelerating Your Career Advancement

Career Distinction: Stand Out by Building Your Brand, William Arruda and Kirsten Dixson (2007).

Brazen Careerist: The New Rules for Success, Penelope Trunk (2007).

What Got You Here, Won’t Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful, Marshal Goldsmith and Mark Reiter (2007).

Go Put Your Strengths to Work: 6 Powerful Steps to Achieve Outstanding Performance, Marcus Buckingham (2007).

Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New Paths, Timothy Butler (2007).

Competing on Analytics: The New Science of Winning, Thomas H. Davenport (2007). 

Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation, James P. Andrew, Harold L. Sirkin, and John Butman (2007).

Firing Back: How Great Leaders Rebound After Career Disasters, Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and Andrew Ward (2007). 

30-Day Job Promotion, Susan Britton Whitcomb (2007). 

Secrets to Winning at Office Politics: How to Achieve Your Goals and Increase Your Influence at Work, Marie G. McIntyre (2005).

The 12 Bad Habits that Hold Good People Back: Overcoming the Behavior Patterns that Keep You from Getting Ahead, James Waldroop and Timothy Butler (2001).

Tom Linquist is a consultant in the Chicago office of Egon Zehnder International. He serves clients as a member of both the Energy Practice Group and the Financial Services Practice Group. Tom has a diverse industry background.

Prior to joining Egon Zehnder, he was a senior manager at Accenture, where he provided strategic, financial, and performance management consulting to energy and utility clients. Before Accenture, Linquist was vice president of finance for Peoples Energy Corporation, where he was responsible for the company’s treasury functions, finance of Peoples’ regulated local gas distribution company, and its diversified companies including power generation and oil and gas. He also led the financial aspects of Peoples’ M&A activities including power generation asset M&A and corporate M&A.

Prior to joining Peoples, he was vice president of ABN AMRO’s Power & Infrastructure Group, where he was responsible for advising clients and arranging domestic and international project and acquisition financings in the energy and water resources industries. Prior to joining ABN AMRO, Linquist was a construction project and environmental engineer with Shell Oil Company.

Tom has an MBA from the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business and a BS in civil engineering from Texas A&M University. He is also an Illinois Certified Public Accountant.