Robert Hargrove is considered the "Dean" of leadership coaching. He is the author of the best selling book Masterful Coaching and companion book Masterful Coaching Fieldbook, as well as Mastering the Art of Creative Collaboration and E-Leader: Reinventing Leadership in a Connected Economy. His new book, Your Coach in a Book, which address some of the most pressing dilemmas and issues an executive faces, will be available June 2004. He is represented by Speak Inc. speakers bureau and the Washington Speakers Bureau. In 1999, Linkage Corporation surveyed over 100,000 decision-makers interested in leadership and executive coaching about the people they felt were the top authorities in the field. Robert Hargrove was selected as the single most influential authority out of a field of fifty.

When a major corporation becomes interested in leadership and coaching, chances are high that Robert Hargrove will be one of the first people they call. Mr. Hargrove is not only the leading brand in the field, he has also pioneered a process called Masterful Coaching, the Method^™, which has been adopted by many companies and leading business schools. Mr. Hargrove's coaching method is based on inspiring leaders to come to new ideas, fresh approaches, and innovative solutions in complex business situations where there are no easy and obvious answers. His approach is based on integrating performance and development, whereas most executive coaching programs tend to use a psychological or mechanistic approach.

Robert Hargrove has personally coached CEOs and executives in the top management group in companies like Fidelity Investments, Adidas, AIG, Zurich Financial Services, Estee Lauder International, Royal Insurance, ConocoPhillips, Royal Dutch Shell, Sun Microsystems, Philips Electronics, Unilever, and Andersen Consulting. He has been the primary business designer of many top executive leadership development programs, culture change efforts, and breakthrough projects.

As founder of Masterful Coaching, Inc., he has brought together a worldwide coaching network of the top world-class executive coaches who can meet the needs of major corporate clients in the United States and around the world. He was former director of the Harvard Leadership Research Project and co-founded Innovation Associates with Peter Senge, author of The Fifth Discipline, The Art and Practice of the Learning Organization.

Prior to his leadership work inside major business organizations, Mr. Hargrove created a company called Relationships Inc. that focused on leadership and organization transformation programs. He personally trained over 30,000 people in transformation seminars that lasted four days. It was in these programs that he learned how to inspire, empower, and enable leaders to bring about fundamental changes in who they are, their mindset and behavior.

Client Comments

"I would never have become a CEO without Robert Hargrove.s coaching. After I became CEO, I found his coaching invaluable in reaching breakthrough goals and solving challenging problems."

"Robert Hargrove has the uncanny ability to say the one thing that makes a difference in breaking through complex business situation where the answers are not obvious and the solutions unknown.

Robert Hargrove has an extraordinary capability of having a big impact on leadership performance and development in a short period of time."

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