Howard M. Guttman is principal of Guttman Development Strategies, Inc.(GDS), a Mount Arlington, NJ-based management consulting firm specializing in building high-performance teams, executive coaching, strategic and organizational alignment, and project implementation. GDS has been ranked #11 among Leadership Development consulting firms by Leadership Excellence magazine, which also named Mr. Guttman to its list of “Excellence 100 Top Thought Leaders.”
GDS focuses on aligning senior management teams, developing the strategy and implementation of "horizontal" organizations (brand teams, matrix structures, global teams), and executive development. Mr. Guttman and his staff of consultants are known for creating programs and processes that are pragmatic, results oriented, and produce observable change. His style is direct, and he enables clients to clearly see the distinction between symptoms and core organization issues.
Among GDS’s U.S. and international corporate clients are Calvin Klein; Chico’s FAS, Inc.; Colgate-Palmolive; John Hancock; Johnson & Johnson; L’Oréal USA; Mars Inc.; Novartis; Pepsico; and Schering-Plough. Mr. Guttman has also consulted with numerous universities and non-profit organizations around the world.
Mr. Guttman’s corporate experience includes Johnson & Johnson and Automatic Data Processing. At J&J, his last position was director of human resources. Previously, at J&J, he served as national manager of human resources development and general manager of headquarters personnel. At ADP, Mr. Guttman was senior organization development consultant responsible for internal consulting and executive training.
Mr. Guttman holds an M.S. from Case Western Reserve University's School of Applied Social Sciences. He has been a professor of organization behavior and management consulting at the Graduate School of Management of Rutgers University and an adjunct professor of behavioral consulting at Fairleigh Dickinson University’s Graduate School of Psychology.
Mr. Guttman’s most recent book is Great Business Teams: Cracking the Code for Standout Performance (John Wiley), named one of the Top 30 Business Books of 2008 by Soundview Executive Book Summaries. He is also the author of When Goliaths Clash: Managing Executive Conflict to Build a More Dynamic Organization. He was included in Thoughts from the Top: A Collection of Interviews with Business Gurus. Harvard Management Update’s interview with Mr. Guttman forms the basis of the chapter, “Bury Your Opinion, Shortchange Your Team,” in Teams That Click, a part of the Harvard Business School Press Results-Driven Manager series.
Mr. Guttman has appeared on MSNBC, New Jersey News 12, WMAQ Chicago, and Comcast Network's “One on One.” He is a frequent contributor to professional journals such as Harvard B-School Working Knowledge, Harvard Management Update, Human Resource Executive, The Journal of Business Strategy, Leader to Leader, Management Review, and Pharmaceutical Executive. He is a contributing editor to Leadership Excellence.
Articles by Mr. Guttman have also appeared and he has been quoted in broad-interest newspapers and magazines such as American Airlines’ American Way, Amtrak’s Arrive, Business News New Jersey, Investors Business Daily, The Washington Post, The Newark Star Ledger, U.S. News and World Report, and U.S.A. Today magazine.
Mr. Guttman frequently addresses academic and corporate audiences on such topics as “Great Business Teams: What Does It Take?”; “Conflict Management as a Core Leadership Competency,” “Putting Performance into High-Performance Teams,” “Executive Coaching: Lessons from the Firing Line,” and “Alignment: From Strategy to Implementation.”
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