"HR must give value or give notice."

BACKGROUND

Dave Ulrich is a Partner and co-founder of The RBL Group and a professor of business at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan. Professionally, he studies how organizations build capabilities of speed, learning, collaboration, accountability, talent, and leadership through leveraging human capital. He has helped generate multiple award winning data bases that assess alignment between strategies, human resource practices and HR competencies.

AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Dave has consulted and done research with over half of the Fortune 200. Dave was the editor of the Human Resource Management Journal 1990 to 1999, has served on the editorial board of 4 other journals, is on the Board of Directors for Herman Miller, is a Fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources; and is co-founder of the Michigan Human Resource Partnership.

PUBLICATIONS & HONORS

Books

• Leadership Brand (with Norm Smallwood), forthcoming.
• Memo to the CEO: The Leadership Code (with Norm Smallwood and Kate Sweetman), forthcoming.
• Human Resource Value Proposition (with Wayne Brockbank).
• The Future of Human Resource Management (with Michael Losey and Sue Meisinger).
• Why the Bottom Line Isn’t: How to Build Value Through People and Organization (with Norm Smallwood).
• GE Workout (with Steve Kerr and Ron Ashkenas).
• Human Resources: Business Process Outsourcing (with Edward Lawler, Jac Fitz-enz, James Madden and Regina Maruca)
• HR Scorecard: Linking People, Strategy, and Performance (with Brian Becker and Mark Huselid).
• Results Based Leadership: How Leaders Build the Business and Improve the Bottom Line (with Norm Smallwood and Jack Zenger).
• Human Resource Champions: The Next Agenda for Adding Value and Delivering Results.
• The Boundaryless Organization: Breaking the Chains of Organization Structure (with Ron Ashkenas, Steve Kerr and Todd Jick).

Articles

• “Results-Based Learning,” (with Norm Smallwood and Kate Sweetman), CLO Magazine, forthcoming.
• "Leadership as a Brand," (with Norm Smallwood), Leadership Excellence, Jan 2007.
• "Making Intangibles Tangible," (with Norm Smallwood and Kurt Sandholtz), Strategic Finance, Dec 2006.
• "Making Intangibles Tangible," (with Norm Smallwood and Kurt Sandholtz), Leadership Excellence, Dec 2006.
• Over 100 articles.

Honors

• Lifetime Achievement in Workplace Learning and Performance (ASTD 2007)
• Most influential person in HR (HR Magazine 2006)
• Ranked as #2 among management thinkers by Executive Excellence in 2004.
• Ranked as #1 management educator and guru by Business Week, 2001.
• George Petipas Memorial Award from World Federation of Personnel Management for lifetime contributions to human resources, 2000.
• Listed by Forbes as one of the “world’s top five” business coaches, 2000.
• SHRM Award for Professional Excellence for lifetime contributions to intellectual leadership of the profession, 1998.