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Rob Galford is a managing partner of the Center for Executive Development.
He divides his time across teaching on Executive Education programs and
working with senior executives at the world's leading organizations on the
leadership issues that lie at the intersection of strategy and
organization. He has taught on the Executive Programs at the Columbia
University Graduate School of Business, the Kellogg Graduate School of
Management at Northwestern University, and most recently Harvard University.
Earlier in his career, Rob was Executive Vice President and
Chief People Officer of Digitas (NASDAQ:DTAS), a marketing services firm
based in Boston,
with offices worldwide. He was also a Vice President of The MAC Group and
its successor firm, Gemini Consulting, focusing largely on the strategic
and organizational challenges facing Fortune 100 Companies, international
financial institutions and professional services entities. While there, he
worked for a number of years in Western Europe prior to returning to the U.S.,
where he took on a variety of firm administrative and managerial
responsibilities. He has practiced law with the international firm of
Curtis, Mallet-Prevost, Colt & Mosle in New York,
and has also worked in investment management, first for Citicorp in New York, and later in Boston. In addition, he has taught Management
Policy in the MBA Program at Boston University Graduate School of
Management.
Rob is a four-time contributor to the Harvard Business Review,
including "When an Executive Defects" (case comment-1997),
"Why Can't this HR Department Get Any Respect?" (1998),
"What's He Waiting For?" (1999), and "The Enemies of
Trust" (2003). His work also has appeared frequently in the Boston
Globe, where he has served as one of the regular "Job Doc"
advice columnists in the Sunday Globe, and he has been featured or quoted
in such other publications as Inc. Magazine, Sloan Management
Review, and The American Lawyer. Rob is the co-author of The
Trusted Advisor (with David Maister and Charles Green), initially
published by Free Press/Simon and Schuster in 2000, and subsequently
reissued in paperback by Touchstone/Simon and Schuster in 2001. The
Trusted Advisor has been on business best-seller lists since the time
of its publication. His newest book, The Trusted Leader (co-authored
with Anne Drapeau), was published by The Free Press in January 2003.
Rob currently sits on the Boards of Directors of Forrester
Research, Inc. and Access Data Corporation. He also hosts the business
video, Talk About Change! with the popular cartoon character,
Dilbert.
His educational background includes Liceo Segre, Turin, Italy,
a BA in Economics and Italian Literature from Haverford
College, an MBA from Harvard Business
School and a JD from Georgetown University Law
Center, where he was
an Associate Editor of The Tax Lawyer.
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