Dave Ulrich

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Dave Ulrich is the Rensis Likert Professor at the Ross School of Business, University of Michigan and a partner at the RBL Group, a consulting firm focused on helping organizations and leaders deliver value. He has published over 200 articles and book chapters and over 30 books. He edited Human Resource Management 1990-1999, served on editorial board of 4 other journals and on the Board of Directors for Herman Miller (16 years), has spoken to large audiences in 90 countries; performed workshops for over half of the Fortune 200; coached successful business leaders, and is a Distinguished Fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources. He is known for continually learning, turning complex ideas into simple solutions, and creating real value to those he works with as he defines human capability as the next agenda for people and organization.

Organization. With co-authors, he has influenced thinking about modern organizations (Reinventing the Organization) by empirically showing how organization delivers 4 times business results over talent (Victory Through Organization), defined organizations as bundles of capabilities (Organization Capability) and worked to delineate capabilities of talent management (Why of Work; Talent Accelerator), culture change (GE Workout), learning (Learning Organization Capability), and collaboration (Boundaryless Organization).

Leadership. With colleagues, he has also articulated the basics of effective leadership (Leadership Code and Results Based Leadership), connected leadership with customers (Leadership Brand), shown how leadership delivers market value (Why the Bottom Line Isn’t), shapes investor expectations with an ability to measure leadership (Leadership Capital Index), and synthesized ways to ensure that leadership aspirations turn into actions (Leadership Sustainability).

Human Resources. He and his colleagues have shaped the HR profession and he has been called the “father of modern HR” and “HR thought leader of the decade” by focusing on HR outcomes, governance, competencies, and practices (HR Champions; HR Value Added; HR Transformation; HR Competencies; HR Outside In). He spearheaded a “gift” book on the future of HR (The Rise of HR) distributed to over 1,500,000 HR professionals), in which 70 thought leaders freely shared their insights. He posts articles (over 200) and a newsletter on Linkedin weekly.

Dr. Ulrich’s honors include:

2024

#2 global HR influencer out of 50 by PeopleBox

2023

Patron of the Dave Ulrich HR Excellence Award sponsored by Indian Institute of Social Welfare (IISWBM)
Listed as one of the top100 inspirational global leaders by Global Leaders Today
#5 (out of 200) thought leader in leadership by LeadersHum
#12 of 20 of leadership thought leaders by Thinkers360

2022

Ranked #1 (of 50) HR leaders shaping the future of work by LeadersHum
LinkedIn “Influencer” (LinkedIn’s top 500 thought leaders, experts, innovators, and thinkers)
One of top 10 voices on culture by Linkedin
Listed in Who’s Who in the Future of Work by Analytica
One of top 30 People Analytics leaders by Perceptyx
#6 (out of 200) thought leader in leadership by LeadersHum

2021

Lifetime Achievement Award from Institute of Management Studies
#3 (out of 200) thought leader in 2021 by PeopleHum
“Most Influential Global HR Leader, 2021” sponsored by PeopleFirst and HRD Forum
“Honorary Member” of IFTDO (500,000 person training/development organization)

2020

Distinguished Fellow (one of 15 total), National Academy of Human Resources
Michael R. Losey Excellence in Human Resource Research Award by SHRM
Honorary Doctorate from Utah Valley University
Initiated the Dave Ulrich Impact Award by the Academy of Management to honor contribution in HR

2019

Named one of the 100 top influencers in HR (in leadership & development category)
Named one of the top 20 influential HR leaders
Ranked #1 thought leader in HR by HRD Connect

2018

Named one of the 20 most influential business professors in the world by top-business-degree (#13)

2017

Named to the Thinkers50 “Hall of Fame”, a recognition of lifetime achievement in influencing management
Chartered Fellow of the Human Resources Institute of New Zealand

2016

Presidential lecture “in defense of organization” for Utah Valley University

2015

Named the most “influential HR thinker of the decade”
Listed in Thinkers50 as management thought leader
Commencement Speaker Southern Virginia University

2014

Ranked #1 speaker in Management/Business by Speaking.com
Commencement speaker, University of Michigan Ross School of Business

2013

Lifetime Leadership Award from the Leadership Forum at Silver Bay
Listed in Thinkers50 as a management thought leader

2012

Lifetime Achievement Award from HR Magazine for being the “Father of modern human resources”

2011

Ranked #1 most influential international thought leader in HR by HR Magazine
Listed in Thinkers50 as a management thought leader
Ranked in Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Leadership Behavior

2010

Nobels Colloquia Prize for Leadership on Business and Economic Thinking
Lifetime Fellowship in Australia Human Resources Institute (AHRI)
Ranked #1 most influential international thought leader in HR by HR Magazine
Kirk Englehardt Exemplary Business Ethics Award from Utah Valley University
Why of Work (co-authored with Wendy Ulrich) was #1 best seller for Wall Street Journal and USA Today

2009

Listed in Thinkers 50 as a management thought leader
Ranked #1 most influential person in HR by HR Magazine

2008

Ranked #1 most influential person in HR by HR Magazine

2007

Lifetime Achievement Award from American Society of Training and Development (ASTD)
Honorary Doctorate from University of Abertey, at Dundee Scotland

2006

Ranked #1 most influential person in HR by HR Magazine in vote by influential HR thinkers
Dyer Distinguished Alumni Award from Brigham Young University, Marriott School of Management

2005

Ranked #2 management guru by Executive Excellence
Named by Fast Company as one of the 10 most innovative and creative thinkers of 2005

2002-2005

President, Canada Montreal Mission, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

2001

Ranked #1 management educator and guru by Business Week

2000

Lifetime achievement award from World Federation of Personnel Management
Listed in Forbes as one of the "world’s top five" business coaches

1998

Society for Human Resource Management award for Professional Excellence for lifetime contributions
Lifetime achievement (PRO) award from International Association of Corporate and Professional Recruitment, and Employment Management Association

1997

Warner W. Stockberger Lifetime Achievement Award from International Personnel Management Association

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Dave Ulrich's Published Works

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A new mandate for human resources. (1998) (787)
Human Resource Champions (1996) (772)
The HR Value Proposition (2005) (711)
Perspectives in Organizations: Resource Dependence, Efficiency, and Population (1984) (656)
The HR Scorecard: Linking People, Strategy, and Performance (2001) (649)
Intellectual Capital = Competence x Commitment (1998) (425)
MEASURING HUMAN RESOURCES: AN OVERVIEW OF PRACTICE AND A PRESCRIPTION FOR RESULTS (1997) (419)
High-impact learning: Building and diffusing learning capability (1993) (407)
Human resource competencies: An empirical assessment (1995) (354)
Organizational capability: creating competitive advantage (1991) (346)
Organizational Capability: Competing from the Inside Out (1990) (338)
Are we there yet? What's next for HR? (2015) (244)
Capitalizing on capabilities. (2004) (229)
Organizational learning capability (1999) (208)
The Boundaryless Organization (1995) (198)
Talent: Making People Your Competitive Advantage (2008) (191)
Results-Based Leadership (1999) (176)
The twenty‐first‐century HR organization (2008) (174)
FROM PARTNERS TO PLAYERS: EXTENDING THE HR PLAYING FIELD (2001) (172)
Learning from practice: How HR analytics avoids being a management fad (2015) (164)
From The Ground Up: Six Principles for Building the New Logic Corporation (1996) (162)
Human Resource Roles: Creating Value, Not Rhetoric (1996) (159)
Shared Services: From Vogue to Value (1995) (150)
HR Competencies: Mastery at the Intersection of People and Business (2008) (139)
What is talent (2012) (124)
The State of the HR Profession (2013) (119)
Leveraging Leadership Competencies to Produce Leadership Brand: Creating Distinctiveness by Focusing on Strategy and Results (2000) (117)
Human resource competencies: Responding to increased expectations (2007) (102)
HR Transformation: Building Human Resources from the outside in (2010) (97)
HR of the future: Conclusions and observations (1997) (94)
The Routledge Companion to Strategic Human Resource Management (2008) (94)
Building a leadership brand. (2007) (92)
HR from the Outside In: Six Competencies for the Future of Human Resources (2012) (88)
The future of human resource management : 64 thought leaders explore the critical HR issues of today and tomorrow (2005) (76)
General Organizational Classification: An Empirical Test Using the United States and Japanese Electronics Industries (1990) (72)
Design Strategy from the Population Perspective (1984) (69)
The talent trifecta (2008) (69)
Organizational Learning Capability: Generating and Generalizing Ideas with Impact (1999) (66)
Beyond belief: A benchmark for human resources (1989) (65)
HR's new ROI: Return on intangibles (2005) (62)
HR professional development: creating the future creators at the University of Michigan Business School (1999) (62)
HR talent and the new HR competencies (2012) (58)
Best Practices in Leadership Development and Organization Change: How the Best Companies Ensure Meaningful Change and Sustainable Leadership (2004) (56)
The New Leadership Development (2000) (54)
Judge me more by my future than by my past (1997) (51)
The GE work-out : how to implement GE's revolutionary method for busting bureaucracy and attacking organizational problems--fast! (2002) (51)
Why the Bottom Line Isn't!: How to Build Value Through People and Organization (2003) (50)
Delivering Results: A New Mandate for Human Resource Professionals (1998) (44)
Creating the boundaryless organization: The radical reconstruction of organization capabilities (1995) (42)
The Leadership Code: Five Rules to Lead by (2008) (41)
Tomorrow's HR management : 48 thought leaders call for change (1997) (40)
Roadmap to Strategic HR: Turning a Great Idea into a Business Reality (2005) (39)
Profiling Organizational Competitiveness: Cultivating Capabilities (1993) (39)
Making Strategic Human Capital Relevant: A Time-Sensitive Opportunity (2014) (37)
HR at a crossroads (2016) (36)
Global HR Competencies: Mastering Competitive Value from the Outside-In (2012) (35)
The HR business-partner model: past learnings and future challenges (2009) (34)
Strategic and Human Resource Planning: Linking Customers and Employees (1992) (33)
The GE Work-Out (2002) (30)
The Population Perspective: Review, Critique, and Relevance (1987) (30)
Agility: the new response to dynamic change (2019) (28)
The why of Work: How Great Leaders Build Abundant Organizations that Win (2010) (27)
From eBusiness to eHR (2000) (27)
Leadership Brand: Developing Customer-Focused Leaders to Drive Performance and Build Lasting Value (2007) (26)
Strategic Human Resource Planning: Why and How? (1992) (26)
The Routledge Companion to Leadership (2016) (25)
Higher knowledge for higher aspirations (2005) (23)
Introduction: setting the scene for leadership in Asia (2012) (22)
Dreams: Where human resource development is headed to deliver value (2007) (22)
The future targets or outcomes of HR work: individuals, organizations and leadership (2014) (22)
Conclusion: Reality, impact, and professionalism (2005) (20)
An anniversary reflection (2011) (19)
Governing transactions: A framework for cooperative strategy (1983) (19)
Toward a Synthesis of HR Competency Models: The Common HR "Food Groups" (2015) (19)
Are You Future Agile (1995) (19)
From shared services to professional services (2012) (19)
What is Leadership (2012) (19)
AN INTERVIEW WITH MIKE LOSEY, TONY RUCCI, AND DAVE ULRICH: THREE EXPERTS RESPOND TO HRMJ’S SPECIAL ISSUE ON HR STRATEGY IN FIVE LEADING FIRMS (1999) (17)
Employee Health Management Programs: Review, Critique, and Research Agenda (1987) (16)
Recent study shows impact of HR competencies on business performance (2012) (15)
A strategy, structure, human resource database: OASIS. (1984) (15)
Building culture from the outside in (2009) (14)
Rise of HR—New Mandates for I-O (2017) (14)
Conclusion: lessons learned and insights derived from leadership in Asia (2012) (14)
Leadership Sustainability: What's Next for Leadership Improvement Efforts (2013) (14)
Six key principles for measuring Human capital performance in your organization (2002) (13)
Talent Accelerator (2014) (13)
Executive Development as a Competitive Weapon (1989) (12)
From war for talent to victory through organization (2015) (12)
Aligning firm, leadership, and personal brand (2008) (10)
Creating a winning culture: next step for leading HR professionals (2016) (10)
Leadership in Asia: Challenges and Opportunities (2009) (10)
The work of HR part one: people and performance: using HR “menus” to maximize value for all stakeholders (2005) (9)
The future of HR and information capability (2017) (9)
Specifying External Relations: Definition of and Actors in an Organization's Environment (1984) (9)
Human resources : the value proposition (2006) (8)
HR Competencies that Make a Difference (2008) (8)
How HR Adds Value (2006) (8)
LEADERS AS PARADOX NAVIGATORS (2017) (8)
Building better HR departments (2016) (8)
Strategic human resource development : a journey in eight stages (2013) (8)
Competency Models With Impact : Research Findings From the Top Companies for Leaders (2014) (8)
Coaching for results (2008) (7)
The Next Evolution of the HR Organization (2008) (7)
Leadership Brand (2009) (6)
Effective Human Resource Practices for Competitive Advantages: An Emperical Assessment of Organizations in Transition (1990) (6)
100 things you need to know - best people practices for managers & HR. (2004) (6)
Introduction to exemplary practices (1992) (6)
Customer education: A new frontier for human resource development (1990) (6)
ENHANCING HRM PRACTICES: A STAKEHOLDER APPROACH. (2009) (5)
Competencies for HR Professionals Who Deliver Outcomes (2017) (5)
Leadership Sustainability: Seven Disciplines to Achieve the Changes Great Leaders Know They Must Make (2013) (5)
Building a world class HR department (2018) (4)
The evolving diversity agenda (2016) (4)
Editor's note: Special issue on measuring human resource effectiveness and impact (1997) (4)
Connecting Hearts in the Workplace. (2011) (4)
HR from the outside in : the next era of human resources transformation (2012) (4)
What is organization (1997) (4)
Conclusion to exemplary practices (1992) (3)
The talent menu : HR's role in making talent happen (2009) (3)
Intangibles and Stock Prices: How Leaders Build Market Value (2003) (3)
How human resources can add value (2005) (3)
Editor's note boundaryless special issue (1990) (3)
What is an Effective Leader? The Leadership Code and Leadership Brand (2010) (3)
Academic application is not an oxymoron (2006) (3)
Why the bottom line isnt (2004) (3)
HR’s ever-emerging contribution (2020) (2)
How HR Leaders Can Add Value to an Organization. (2006) (2)
Chang Insights and HR Implications (2012) (2)
Winning in challenging markets requires stronger attention to human capital (2015) (2)
Leadership in Asia: Challenges, Opportunities, and Strategies From Top Global Leaders (2009) (2)
I'm the new head of HR, now what? The first 90 days (2009) (2)
The Routledge Companion to Strategic HRM (2009) (2)
Leaders who make meaning meaningful (2011) (2)
The work of HR part two: the flow of information and work (2005) (2)
CEOs AND CHROs: EXPECTATION, CONNECTION, AND SUCCESSION (2015) (1)
Recognizing and Realizing the Market Value of Leadership (2016) (1)
HR Business Partner model : past and future perspectives : international waters - HR strategy (2016) (1)
Pain, Pathos, and Paranoia: Responses to the Unstructured OB Course (1982) (1)
Building intangible value from the outside in (2005) (1)
The Employment Relationship in Strategic HRM (2018) (1)
21 st century competencies for HR professionals : international waters : guru spot (2014) (1)
Blue Cross of California: human resources in a changing world. (1985) (1)
Our Leadership Journey (2009) (1)
Search for holy grail of HR continues : : feature (2012) (1)
Leadership in the Asia Pacific Region: Insights and Lessons for Effectiveness (2017) (1)
HR strategy : optimising HR's influence : human resources (2008) (1)
The work of human resources : human resources (2008) (1)
Employee engagement: John Storey, Dave Ulrich, Theresa M. Welbourne and Patrick M. Wright (2008) (1)
Changing facets of leadership in East Asia: globalization, innovation and performance in Japan, South Korea and China (2018) (1)
AN E~IPERICAL ASSESSMENT OF ORGANIZATIONS IN TRANSITION (1990) (1)
Win the war for talent through an investor focus : international waters - talent (2016) (1)
John R. Wooden, Stephen R. Covey and Servant Leadership (2014) (1)
Editor's note on journal transition (1990) (1)
Large-Scale System Change: Paradigm, Process, and Practice. (1992) (0)
The HR value proposition : top ten things about organisations (2007) (0)
Talent Management Processes (2015) (0)
The role a brand plays in leadership : leadership (2008) (0)
Putting the Leadership Capital Index into Practice (2015) (0)
Leadership and branding : the one reflects on the other (2007) (0)
Above and Beyond the Yearly Wheel: Anticipating and Realizing the Ever-Evolving Contribution of HR (2021) (0)
Editor's note: Are we a profession? (1995) (0)
Leadership as a brand : the steps to creating a leadership brand : insight (2007) (0)
Book highlight—Culture: Shaping the right priorities and behaviors in the ecosystem (2020) (0)
Walden. Reed Business Information, Inc. & LEADERS WHO MAKE MEANING MEANINGFUL. (2010) (0)
Introduction: The Market Value of Leadership (2015) (0)
Fit, flexibility, and agility (2019) (0)
Dentists as leaders: How dentists better lead their practices (2013) (0)
PART VI Imagining Leadership (2016) (0)
PART III Practising Leadership (2016) (0)
PART V Evaluating Leadership (2016) (0)
HR competences and the HR function (2019) (0)
EBOOK : Strategic Human Resource Management ; A Research Overview 1st Edition (2019) (0)
No more pushing rocks : on the cover (2015) (0)
PART IV Contextualizing Leadership (2016) (0)
What is Organization? The Evolving Answer (2021) (0)
Strategic human resource management and performance outcomes (2019) (0)
Build better HR departments - part 2 : strategy (2016) (0)
Embracing and Harnessing Uncertainty (2021) (0)
Part 1 - build better HR departments : international waters - recruitment (2016) (0)
Mapping the field of strategic human resource management (2019) (0)
United States and Japanese electronic industries : description, and selection (1986) (0)
Perspectives in Organization Theory: Resource Dependence, Efficiency, and Ecology. (1981) (0)
Using 360 Feedback to Shape a Profession (2019) (0)
A stock-take and a forward view (2019) (0)
Benchmarking and Competitor Analysis (2015) (0)
Classroom Consultng: A Contract Introduction (1979) (0)
When Leadership Matters to Investors, It Matters More (2015) (0)
Lessons learned (HR business partner model) (2009) (0)
How do I prove to the CEO that HR is a profit centre (2006) (0)
INTERPRETATION OF COMPANY FEEDBACK REPORT (2002) (0)
The changing contexts of strategic human resource management (2019) (0)
BOOK REVIEWS (2003) (0)
20 insights on organisations : part 3 : international waters : guru spot (2014) (0)
Creating a Leadership Capital Index (2015) (0)
PART VII Nurturing Leadership (2016) (0)
Getting good people is not enough : international waters - strategy (2016) (0)
Perspectives and the Context: Lean and Smart HR (2016) (0)
Performance Accountability Processes (2015) (0)
Program for Research on Organizations and Management : the United States-Japanese Electronic Industries Study : NTIS (1981) (0)
Key practice areas and the key levers (2019) (0)
Conduct positive performance conversations : international waters - global masterclass (2016) (0)
11. Pursue Insight (2015) (0)
Foreword by Dave Ulrich (2015) (0)
The Relevance and Use of a Leadership Capital Index (2015) (0)
Leadership Brand Proficiency (2015) (0)
Live Webinar: Value Creation Through HR with Dave Ulrich (2018) (0)

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