“New Leadership Thinking in Play: Simulation Develops Leadership Accountability” (Co- Author) (Published by Paradigm Learning) “The Team that Wasn’t: Why Doesn’t This Team Work?” (published in the Harvard Business Review.) Kathleen's recent client work includes:Įveryone A Leader: A Grassroots Model for the New Workplace.

She has held positions ranging from first-line supervisor to Senior Vice President and has managed departmental teams, including a high-tech training department, cross-functional project teams, executive task forces, and large, geographically dispersed development teams. She brings client-specific business strategies, strengthened by considerable hands-on leadership experience, to her work as a designer of custom programs. In addition to her expertise in research and generic product development, Kathleen is an extraordinary instructional designer of custom solutions. In addition, her advice on managing difficult teams was included in the case commentary: “The Team That Wasn’t: Why Doesn’t This Team Work?” published in the Harvard Business Review. Kathleen’s earlier book, Leading Teams: Mastering the New Role, includes practical tools and techniques for managing teams in today’s organizations. This research serves as the basis for her book, Everyone a Leader: A Grassroots Model for the New Workplace. Her contributions to research and authorship include a landmark study that involved 2000 people across 450 organizations and identified the 17 leadership competencies employees valued most in their leaders. Kathleen Hurson leads BE GREAT LLC's Leading with Autonomy® product development efforts and its quantitative and qualitative proprietary research. Her front-line management and supervisory knowledge and experience are unparalleled in the field of training and development.Īs the former senior vice-president of product development for Zenger Miller and AchieveGlobal, she directed the development of award-winning supervisory, management and leadership development programs, including FrontLine Leadership™ and Leadership 2000™.

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