Tom Carroll Bio

Tom Carroll is currently the owner of TMC Leadership Consulting. For the previous 22 years, he served in numerous leadership roles at RR Donnelley. Tom’s last role was as the Executive Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer for RR Donnelley, a $12 billion dollar international Fortune 500 Company with approximately 68,000 employees worldwide. Tom graduated with his bachelor’s and master’s degree from Illinois State University in clinical psychology. Tom worked for ten years in a variety of clinical settings that served children and families with special needs and patients with neuro-psychological issues. Tom served in many leadership roles for the RR Donnelley over his 22 year career. As the Chief Administrative Officer, he had responsibilities for all aspects of human resources for domestic and global operations in the Asia Pacific, Mexico, South America, Canada, Europe and the United States. He also led the company’s corporate marketing, corporate communications, real estate, environmental health and safety, government and postal affairs functions and has served as an advisor to an enterprise technology start-up called “Work-Bench” in New York City. Starting in August of 2015, Tom led the “Spin” efforts to separate all operational aspects of RR Donnelley and create three independent stand-alone companies by October 1, 2016. This was accomplished on-time and under budget. LSC Communications (LKSD), Donnelley Financial (DFIN) and RR Donnelley (RRD) today stand as three independent publicly traded companies. Tom served the RR Donnelley Board of Directors for the last ten years by advising on governance, talent, succession, diversity and executive compensation practices. He has also served on many not-for-profit Boards including the Chicago Public Library Foundation (Executive Committee), the Naperville Area Humane Society (Board President), Naperville Community Television (Board President), Chicago YMCA (Executive Committee – led merger of Naperville and Chicago YMCAs), Naperville Development Partnership (Board Member), Idealliance (Board Member), and North Central College (Board Member).