Rowley Associates

Research Reports

Unlike other companies, Rowley Associates has 25 years of collecting and analyzing comprehensive research from their Fortune 100 and Fortune 500 companies. This proprietary data has culminated into a series of timely, relevant and actionable research reports that are now available for business leaders, HR professionals, OD experts and coaches to take advantage of.

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Teams that Mean Business

If you want ‘kum-by-ya’ or ‘Trust Falls’ this program is definitely not for you.  We believe you’re in business so you need to mean business. Our 1-day team development program focuses on making your team better. With our uncompromising approach we focus on the problems to be solved, processes to be improved or relationships needing [...]

Tele-Therapy

A state of the art video and tele-conferencing alternative to traditional face-to-face consulting that maximizes leadership performance while minimizing budget allocations.
Tele-Therapy:

Reduces travel budgets
Eliminates the complexity of geography and time zones
Broadens employee engagement
Reduces your carbon footprint

Click here for more information on this innovative approach to leadership development.

The War in Afghanistan – A Lesson in Objectives and Consensus Building

To be honest I’m not one for consensus building. I worry it produces groupthink or a regression to the objective people think the leader wants rather than the one he needs. However, a recent article in the Washington Post, chronicling how President Obama and his cabinet decided on the latest strategy for Afghanistan, was a [...]

“This is our fault and our fault alone”

In his testimony on Capital Hill, Secret Service Director Mark Sullivan testified that his organization was responsible for the failure of security during President Obama’s first state dinner.  It many ways this shouldn’t be an earth-shattering event. A leader has admitted responsibility for something going wrong. Yet Sullivan is one of the few leaders who [...]

Google has too many Spock’s, not enough Captain Kirk’s

Ken Auletta has just published his latest book, ‘Googled: The End of the World as We Know It’. His conclusion? Google lacks ‘Emotional Intelligence’! It is a company he opines, driven by logic, a Spock of a business lacking the heart of Captain James T. Kirk. It’s an interesting and fun concept that got me [...]

Diagnosing Leadership

What kind of leader are you and how do you compare to some of the best in the business?
After 25 years of conducting our own research and working with leaders from Fortune 500 companies we believe leadership is the combination of two factors – Conviction and Connection.
Leaders with high conviction provide a compelling vision of [...]