Norm Smallwood
Norm is a recognized authority in developing businesses and their leaders to deliver results and increase value. His current work relates to increasing business value by building organization, strategic HR and leadership capabilities that measurably impact market value.
Wayne Brockbank
Dr. Wayne Brockbank is a Principal of The RBL Group and a Clinical Professor of Business at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business. At the Ross School of Business, Dr. Brockbank is the Director of the Center for Strategic HR Leadership and the Faculty Director and Core Instructor of the Strategic Human Resource Planning Program, the Human Resource Executive Program, and the Advanced Human Resource Executive Program.
Nate Thompson
Nate’s areas of expertise include building high value-added business strategies together with powerfully aligned and actionable implementation plans. He helps companies identify and create organization capabilities that will add the greatest value to customers and shareholders. His work focuses on aligning the internal behaviours of leaders and employees with the expectations of key external stakeholders. During his time at RBL, Nate has developed an impressive list of corporate clients. These include Nokia, Kerzner International, Raytheon, Siemens AG, Roger’s Communications, United Technologies, Pfizer, Novartis, Avon, USAA, DHL, StatoilHydro, and the AEGON Group.
Allan Freed
Allan joined RBL after successfully leading a division of a fast-paced multi-national company as the General Manager of their Australia/New Zealand region. His key professional achievements are in identifying and aligning organizational behaviours and employee attributes to desired business outcomes, and the development of teams and leaders capable of delivering strategic objectives. He has a proven track record of growing a business and engaging employees.
Jon Younger
Jon’s career has been a mix of consulting, executive management and HR leadership. Prior to joining The RBL Group, he was Chief Learning and Talent Officer of one of the largest U.S. based financial services organizations, responsible for the leadership development, corporate learning, staffing, performance and talent management, and succession planning. He has also managed executive compensation and HR strategy.
Dave Ulrich
Dave has consulted and done research with over half of the Fortune 200. Dave was the editor of the Human Resource Management Journal 1990 to 1999, has served on the editorial board of 4 other journals, is on the Board of Directors for Herman Miller, is a Fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources; and is co-founder of the Michigan Human Resource Partnership.
Ernesto Uscher
For more than 20 years, Ernesto has focused on helping organizations improve through organization and leadership development. Ernesto’s work has been a blend of Strategy, Process Improvement & Organization Design with Leadership & Team Development.
Mark Nyman
Mark has spent his career assisting organizations in transforming themselves by creating strategic focus, and then aligning the design of their organizations and systems to carry out this focus. He has done executive coaching and change work in start-ups, existing organizations, mergers/joint ventures and in numerous industries.
Justin Allen
In the RBL Institute, Justin works with HR leaders in the top companies in the
world, including P&G, Goldman Sachs, Intel, Unilever, Abu Dhabi Investment
Authority, Wal-Mart, J&J, Pfizer, Nokia, Coca Cola, IBM, Royal Bank of
Scotland, BCN Paribas, The Gap Inc, Rogers Communications, and Takeda
Pharmaceutical. The mission of the RBL Institute is to provide a forum for
the world’s leading HR Strategists to generate ideas, share best practices,
and participate in research. Participants have dubbed the RBL Institute as
the world’s “#1 think tank” for human resources strategy.
A List of Our Clients
Global 500, mid-market, and public sector organizations from nearly every industry rely on The RBL Group as their Strategic HR and leadership development advisor of choice.
Dave Ulrich - Most Influential HR Guru
McDonald’s David Fairhurst was voted HR’s most influential practitioner while Dave Ulrich, professor of business at the University of Michigan, took the accolade of most influential HR thinker in this year’s Most Influential ranking.
