Outstanding Educator Award
March 2008
We congratulate our Director of Research, Professor Bill Torbert, on being awarded the David L. Bradford Outstanding Educator Award, given by the Organization Behavior Teaching Society. This accolade rightly acknowledges the creativity and boldness that Bill has always brought to his teaching.

BusinessWeek and UNICON recognition
January 2008
During 2007 Harthill partnered The University of Notre Dame (Illinois, USA) in the provision of a substantive change programme for the US Navy at Corona Naval Base.

Harthill contributed to executive leadership development by profiling, debriefing and coaching 64 civilian leaders. The overall purpose was to develop leadership capability and to enable the cultural transformation of the Base as part of an integrated initiative.

The programme was recognised by UNICON, a consortium of over 80 business schools worldwide, as one of six examples of the most innovative work in executive education worldwide. UNICON plans to release case studies of the six examples of innovation in April of 2008.

Additionally, Notre Dame have been ranked 15th in BusinessWeek magazine’s 2007 biennial survey of worldwide ‘custom programs’ for senior leaders in Government and the private sector. On receiving this news our colleagues at Notre Dame communicated this to Harthill; “This recognition is a direct result of extraordinary relationships. Our team has often marvelled at just how lucky we are to have such wonderful partners. It is through your thirst for excellence in organizational and personal development that we are empowered to excel. Thank you for your contribution to this acknowledgement and our collective good work.

For more information on the ranking, please visit http://www.businessweek.com/table/07/1101_customized.htm

Criminal Justice Management
May 2007
This article was written following an interview with Jane Allen concerning the critical role leaders in the Public Sector play in inspiring their organisations. To read the full article please click on this link.

Strategist research and workshops
November 2006
There are a group of leaders whose patterns of sense making and behaviour are qualitatively different from most leaders. These leaders are more able to lead successful transformations in their organisations. In the developmental model – the Leadership Development Framework – these leaders are described as ‘Strategists’. We are currently researching the relatively rare leaders that profile as Strategists and providing a series of seminars and workshops to explore what is special about the way they operate. For more information contact lynn@harthill.co.uk

Senior Women on the Move
October 2006
We have gathered together a number of senior women to increase our common understanding of what supports success and influence at senior levels. Emerging from this is a potential flagship programme that will support young women to plan a career that includes a senior post in organisations. Launch will be autumn 2007.

Partnership working wins award
14 June 2006
Connect 4 Cymru, a consortium led by the Centre for Action Research at Bath University and Harthill, has won the Public Service People Management Special Achievement Award 2006. Using an action learning methodology the project run with the Welsh Assembly Government builds the leadership capacity of middle managers in public services across the whole of Wales. The Awards were unveiled at the PSPM Expo Gala Awards Dinner. Usha Ladwa-Thomas of PSMW picked up the Award for the C4C programme!

AESC gives HRB article award
April 2006
David rooke and Bill Torbert have been selected as the winners of the AESC 7th annual Award honoring the best published Research on Leadership and Corporate Governance, for their article “7 Transformations of Leadership”, which was published in the Harvard Business Review in April 2005. David will be picking up the award this November in Frankfurt.


Harthill in the Financial Times
4 April 2005
‘Companies spend huge amounts on moulding future leaders. But much of their effort is missing the point’, argues Morgen Witzel in the FT. Witzel quotes extensively from the article by Rooke and Torbert in HBR, citing our research and proposition that suggests how leaders can be helped to move to different levels of capability. For a full copy of the FT article please click here.

Seven Transformations of Leadership by David Rooke and William Torbert in HBR
1 April 2005
In this article, we explore our proposition that leaders are made, not born, and that how they develop is critical for organisational change. The article characterises the broad patterns of leadership exercised by adults at seven different developmental positions, with examples of such leadership in action. We propose that transformation from one stage to another is possible and explore the outcome of this for individual leaders and the organizations they inhabit. Our research is based in part on the Leadership Development Profile. To request a copy of the article please contact us with your details.

Identifying the leaders of tomorrow
April 2005
The Leadership Development Framework is gaining a key position in the process of identifying and retaining the future leaders of an organisation. In a deepening relationship with one of our clients it is clear that the LDF provides a perspective that underpins the mainstream stable of psychometric testing and adds previously untapped information to the leadership development process.

Living Partnership for Wales
February 2005
In partnership with the University of Bath, Harthill have won the contract to increase collaborative working across public services throughout Wales. Sponsored by Public Service Management Wales, this initiative uses Action Learning as the primary vehicle for creating large-scale change.

International partner
February 2005
Founding partner David Rooke spent two weeks with our strategic partners in Australia and New Zealand, Advanced Dynamics, developing their capability in the use of the Leadership Development Framework and speaking at a number of conferences.

Harthill team expands
January 2005
In January 2005 Matthew Hancocks joined Harthill, bringing with him ten years’ experience in facilitating strategic change in commercial organisations.

Jane Allen, associate of Harthill for more than twelve years, has extended her role to become a Director with responsibility for Public Service Contracting and for our Coaching and Mentoring services.

.World-leading expert in the field of personal and organisational transformation, Professor Bill Torbert, has formalised his long-standing role as Harthill’s organisational mentor to become Director of Research with Harthill.