 Noel Tichy |
Dr. Tichy, Professor of Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management at the University of Michigan School of Business, will present his lecture at 4:15 p.m. on Wednesday, April 2 in Baxter Hall’s Lovell Lecture Room.
Tichy’s talk will focus on issue sin leadership post 9/11, corporate scandals at Enron and ImClone, and intergenerational issues of leadership and ethics. His lecture is free and open to the public.
Noel Tichy is one of the nation’s preeminent scholars in the areas of leadership, management, and business ethics. Tichy is the director of the Global Business Partnership which for over a decade ran the Global Leadership Program, a 36-company consortium of Japanese, European and North American companies who partnered to develop senior executives and conduct action research on globalization in China, India, Russia and Brazil.
He now heads up the Global Leadership in Healthcare Program working with CEOs and their senior teams from major medical centers in the U.S. along with teams in Europe and India. Professor Tichy also conducts the “Building the Leadership Engine” executive program at the University of Michigan.
In the mid 1980s Dr. Tichy was head of General Electric’s Leadership Center, the fabled Crotonville, where he led the transformation to action learning at GE. Between 1985-87, Dr Tichy was Manager of Management Education for General Electric where he directed its worldwide development efforts at Crotonville. Prior to joining the Michigan faculty, he served for nine years on the Columbia University Business School faculty.
Professor Tichy is the author of numerous books and articles. His most recent book is The Cycle of Leadership: How Winning Leaders Teach Their Organizations to Win (Harper-Collins 2002). He authored The Leadership Engine: How Winning Companies Build Leaders at Every Level, named one of the top 10 business books in 1997 by Business Week. He is co-author of Every Business is a Growth Business (with Ram Charan), published 1998 (Random House). In addition, Tichy is also the co-author of Control Your Own Destiny or Someone Else Will: How Jack Welch is Making General Electric the World’s Most Competitive Company. He has served on the editorial boards of the Academy of Management Review, Organizational Dynamics, Journal of Business Research, and Journal of Business Strategy and was the founding editor in chief of Human Resource Management.
Noel Tichy consults widely in both the private and public sectors. He is a senior partner in Action Learning Associates. His clients have included: Best Buy, GE, Pepsico, Coca Cola, GE, GM, Nokia, Nomura Securities, 3M, Daimler-Benz and Royal Dutch Shell.
Tichy earned his Ph.D. in social psychology from Columbia University, where he taught for nine years. He began his teaching career at Michigan on the faculty in the Institute of Social Research, and now is head of the Ph.D. program the University of Michigan School of Business.