Chris Roebuck, Author at The HR Gazette and HRchat Podcast

Author: Chris Roebuck

Chris Roebuck advises major global organisations on improving performance through developing entrepreneurial, engaging, ethical and effective leaders – Mach 2 leaders. This has been described by a leading Professor of Psychology as a “breakthrough” in leadership thinking and which Harvard Business Review have interviewed Chris about in Beijing. From global banks to Governments, UK National Health Service to the Red Cross and the Chinese Space Corporation to law firms, Chris inspires leaders with his insights, experience and new ideas to help them rapidly become truly effective, inspiring and respected. He is Visiting Professor of Transformational Leadership at Cass Business School in London and has held senior roles at UBS, HSBC and KPMG, has served in the British Army, and is one of the top 15 Human Resources (HR) thinkers in Europe. As Global Head of Leadership at UBS, he helped deliver leadership and development strategies, resulting in one of the most successful recent corporate transformations which is now a Harvard Business School Case Study. His book “Lead to Succeed” shows leaders and organisations how achieve sustainable success.

Why is ‘just good enough’ acceptable?

In truth, improving organisational performance significantly in a relatively short time at little or no cost is simple – whether within the public or private sector. Guidance on how do so is easily accessible. Yet, few organisations are doing so despite such a tough competitive and economic environment.

What follows after Ulrich’s Business Partner Model?

Enter the HR Entrepreneur The Business Partner model has been around for about 10 years now. It has improved both transactional and transformational HR delivery, but this has not led to improving organisational performance to the satisfaction of many CEOs. This leaves HR with a problem. Are you assuming what is needed? Having attended Dave […]