Ranked as the #1 management guru by Business Week, profiled by Fast Company as one of the world’s top 10 creative people in business, a top 5 coach in Forbes, and recognized on Thinkers50 as one of the world’s leading business thinkers, Dave Ulrich has a passion for ideas with impact. In his writing, teaching, and consulting, he continually seeks new ideas that tackle some of the world’s thorniest and longest standing challenges. 

His bestselling books and popular speeches shape the corporate agenda. Dave has written 30 books and over 200 articles that have shaped three fields:

He has influenced thinking about organizations by defining organizations as bundles of 

capabilities (Organization Capability) and worked to delineate capabilities of learning 

(Learning Organization Capability), collaboration (Boundaryless Organization), talent management (Why of Work), and culture change (GE Workout). 

He has articulated the basics of effective leadership (Leadership Code), connected leadership with customers (Leadership Brand), and synthesized ways to ensure that leadership aspirations turn into actions (Leadership Sustainability). Dave’s current work on the Leadership Capital Index (published by Berrett Koehler in September 2015) creates a “Moody’s index” for leadership. This work examines leadership through the eyes of investors and helps realize the market value of leadership, thus bringing the fields of firm valuation and leadership together. 

He has shaped the HR profession and been called the “father of modern HR” and “HR thought the leader of the decade” by focusing on HR outcomes, governance, competencies, and practices (HR Champions; HR Value Added; HR Transformation; HR Competencies; HR Outside In). He spearheaded a “gift” book on the future of HR (The Rise of HR, distributed to over 1,000,000 HR professionals), in which 70 thought leaders freely share their insights.

Books

• Leadership Sustainability 2013
• HR from the Outside-In 2012
• Global HR Competencies 2012
• The Why of Work 2009
• HR Transformation 2008
• Leadership Code 2008
• HR Competencies 2008
• Leadership Brand 200
• Human Resources Business Process Outsourcing 2004
• Results-Based Leadership 2001
• HR Scorecard 200
• Tomorrow’s HR Management 1997
• Human Resource Champions 1997
• The Boundaryless Organisation 1995
• Organizational Capability 1990