Norm Smallwood

Norm Smallwood's Key Accomplishments Include . . . Norm is a recognized authority in developing leaders who deliver results and increase business value. His current writing, speaking and consulting work relates to making intangibles tangible by building organization capabilities that measurably impact market value. This involves new perspectives, tools and roles for line executives and Human Resources professionals.

He is co-founder of RBL, Inc. which is a collective of well-known and broadly experienced management educators and consultants. Representative clients include Ford, Glaxo-Smithkline, Hallmark, Harley-Davidson, Intercontinental Hotel Group (IHG); Intel, National City Bank, Nike, StorageTek and Zurich Financial.

More About Norm Smallwood . . .

Norm is co-author of four books: Real-Time Strategy: Improvising Team-Based Planning for a Fast Changing World, Wiley & Sons, 1993 (part of the portable MBA series); Results-Based Leadership: How Leaders Build the Business and Improve the Bottom Line, Harvard Business School Press, 1999 (named book of the year by SHRM); Why The Bottom Line Isn’t!: How to Build Value through People and Organizations, Wiley 2003; The Change Champion's Field Guide: Strategies and Tools for Leading Change in your Organization, Best Practice Publications, 2003.

Norm has also published more than 150 articles in leading journals and newspapers and has contributed chapters to multiple books.

Norm is on the faculty at the Executive Education Center at the University of Michigan Business School, an affiliate of Duke Corporate Education, on the Editorial Board of Journal of Human Resource Management, a board member to HELP International, and an Honorary Colonel for the West Valley City Police Department.

Suggested Programs   

-Results-Based Leadership

-Why The Bottom Line Isn’t!: How to Build Value through People and Organizations

-Strategies and Tools for Leading Change in your Organization