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| Dr. Timothy Butler |
A principal and co-founder of CareerLeader, LLP, Tim Butler is Director of MBA Career Development Programs
at the Harvard Business School, where he has worked since 1984.
Together with Dr. James Waldroop (also formerly with the Harvard
Business School), he developed the Business Career Interest Inventory,
the Management and Professional Reward Profile, and the Management
and Professional Abilities Profile and the Internet-based interactive
career assessment program CareerLeader®. First available
via the Internet in 1998, CareerLeader® is currently
used by over 250 MBA programs and corporations around the world.
Tim's work focuses on two areas of
interface between psychology and the world of business: individual
management development (executive coaching) and career development
assessment and counseling. He has worked with a wide range of organizations
in both the manufacturing and service sectors, from Fortune 50 corporations
to smaller high-growth firms.
CareerLeader, LLP is active in research
into the psychological underpinnings of career satisfaction and
success, making use of assessment materials from a data base of
over 600 business professionals. The firm's clients include McKinsey
& Company, General Electric, GTE, Citibank, Sony Music Entertainment,
KPMG Peat Marwick, BankBoston, Gillette, Boise-Cascade, Hewlett-Packard,
AMS, Spaulding & Slye, Bolt Beranek Newman, Boston Edison, the Dana-Farber
Cancer Institute, Mercer Management Consulting, Maximus, Philip
Morris, and Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath.
Tim and Jim Waldroop are the authors
of The
12 Bad Habits That Hold Good People Back: Overcoming the Behavior
Patterns That Keep You From Getting Ahead (Doubleday, 2000)
and Discovering
Your Career in Business (Addison-Wesley, 1997). They are
also authors of "The
Executive as Coach" (the Harvard Business Review, November-December,
1996), "Finding the Job You Should Want (Fortune, March 2,
1998), "Eight Failings That Bedevil the Best" (Fortune, November
23, 1998), "Job
Sculpting: The Art of Retaining Your Best People" (Harvard Business
Review, September-October, 1999) and were recently profiled in Fast
Company magazine. Their latest Harvard Business Review
article is "Managing Away Bad Habits" (September-October, 2000).
Tim has published several articles in professional
journals and was formerly on the faculty of the psychology department
at the State University of New York at Albany. He is represented
for speaking engagements by the Leigh Bureau (www.leighbureau.com,
908-253-8600).
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