George Labovitz
Expert in Organizational Alignment, Integration, Strategies, and Quality Management
George Labovitz counsels senior executives on organizational alignment and execution strategies as well as quality and productivity management. He is also professor of management and organizational behavior at the Boston University School of Management. He has published or contributed to management articles in Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, Quality Progress, and Quality Management in Healthcare. He is the co-author of Making Quality Work (HarperBusiness, 1993) and lead author of the best selling book The Power of Alignmet. Labovitz has delivered numerous presentations to ODI’s international customer base, which includes 12 of Fortune’s “Top 20 Companies” and has twice been the plenary speaker at the annual meeting of the Federal Quality Institute. He has also made presentations to the command structure of the United States Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard.
George Labovitz is the founder and CEO of ODI (Organizational Dynamics), and a professor of management and organizational behavior at the Boston University Graduate School of Management. He counsels senior executives on organizational alignment, collaboration, strategy execution and quality and productivity improvement methodologies.
Under the leadership of Labovitz, ODI has grown from a small, training-based start-up to become an international corporation offering integrated consulting and training services throughout the world. ODI has worked with over 2,000 leading organizations in the world including 12 of Fortune's Top 20 companies. ODI is a leading provider of quality awareness and process and continuous improvement training along with world-class management and supervisory skills training. ODI is known for helping organizations align their strategies, people, processes, and customers to achieve competitive advantage and bottom line results. People in aligned organizations have a clear line of sight to customer requirements and organizational goals. The hallmark of aligned organizations is that they consistently deliver measurable improvements in customer loyalty, employee retention, and return to shareholders, all at the same time! Over thirty-years of research has shown that, quite simply, aligned organizations outperform their competitors by every major financial measure.
Labovitz has published or contributed to management articles in Fortune, Wall Street Journal, Quality Progress, and Quality Management in Healthcare. He is also the co-author of Making Quality Work and lead author of the best-selling book The Power of Alignment. His latest book, Rapid Realignment: Leading, Refocusing and Mobilizing the Organization was released in June 2012.
Labovitz has presented keynote addresses to diverse domestic and international audiences, including annual and national meetings and world congresses in Singapore, Jerusalem and Euro-Disney. He has delivered numerous presentations to ODI’s international customer base, which includes 12 of Fortune’s “Top 20 Companies” and has twice been the plenary speaker at the annual meeting of the Federal Quality Institute. He has also made presentations to the command structure of the United States Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard.
Distinguished and diverse. ODI was twice named in Inc. magazine’s list of the 500 fastest growing privately held U.S. companies, and it was also chosen by the United States Postal Service as the Quality Supplier Award Winner in the small service company category from among 60,000 suppliers.
Labovitz received Boston University’s highest teaching award, the Metcalf Cup and Prize. He has also been a distinguished visiting lecturer at the Naval, Air Force, and Army War Colleges. Labovitz served as national consultant in administration to the Surgeon General of the Navy and the Surgeon General of the Air Force. He was also a consultant on alignment to the chief of naval operations and has served on the board of trustees at Boston Children’s’ Hospital and the CHMC/Dana Farber Cancer Center.
He frequently works as a faculty member in executive programs at Boston University, The Defense Acquisition University, the University of North Carolina, and the Harvard Business School, and he is an adjunct faculty member at the Naval Postgraduate School.
Labovitz holds a BS from Boston University, an MBA from Boston College, and a PhD from Ohio State University. Prior to his graduate studies, he served as a captain in the U.S. Air Force and was also a pilot and aircraft commander.
Under the leadership of Labovitz, ODI has grown from a small, training-based start-up to become an international corporation offering integrated consulting and training services throughout the world. ODI has worked with over 2,000 leading organizations in the world including 12 of Fortune's Top 20 companies. ODI is a leading provider of quality awareness and process and continuous improvement training along with world-class management and supervisory skills training. ODI is known for helping organizations align their strategies, people, processes, and customers to achieve competitive advantage and bottom line results. People in aligned organizations have a clear line of sight to customer requirements and organizational goals. The hallmark of aligned organizations is that they consistently deliver measurable improvements in customer loyalty, employee retention, and return to shareholders, all at the same time! Over thirty-years of research has shown that, quite simply, aligned organizations outperform their competitors by every major financial measure.
Labovitz has published or contributed to management articles in Fortune, Wall Street Journal, Quality Progress, and Quality Management in Healthcare. He is also the co-author of Making Quality Work and lead author of the best-selling book The Power of Alignment. His latest book, Rapid Realignment: Leading, Refocusing and Mobilizing the Organization was released in June 2012.
Labovitz has presented keynote addresses to diverse domestic and international audiences, including annual and national meetings and world congresses in Singapore, Jerusalem and Euro-Disney. He has delivered numerous presentations to ODI’s international customer base, which includes 12 of Fortune’s “Top 20 Companies” and has twice been the plenary speaker at the annual meeting of the Federal Quality Institute. He has also made presentations to the command structure of the United States Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard.
Distinguished and diverse. ODI was twice named in Inc. magazine’s list of the 500 fastest growing privately held U.S. companies, and it was also chosen by the United States Postal Service as the Quality Supplier Award Winner in the small service company category from among 60,000 suppliers.
Labovitz received Boston University’s highest teaching award, the Metcalf Cup and Prize. He has also been a distinguished visiting lecturer at the Naval, Air Force, and Army War Colleges. Labovitz served as national consultant in administration to the Surgeon General of the Navy and the Surgeon General of the Air Force. He was also a consultant on alignment to the chief of naval operations and has served on the board of trustees at Boston Children’s’ Hospital and the CHMC/Dana Farber Cancer Center.
He frequently works as a faculty member in executive programs at Boston University, The Defense Acquisition University, the University of North Carolina, and the Harvard Business School, and he is an adjunct faculty member at the Naval Postgraduate School.
Labovitz holds a BS from Boston University, an MBA from Boston College, and a PhD from Ohio State University. Prior to his graduate studies, he served as a captain in the U.S. Air Force and was also a pilot and aircraft commander.
Topics:
- The Power of Alignment
What is Rapid Realignment? The ability to rapidly realign is a critical competency that enables you to integrate strategy, people, customers and key processes. Aligned organizations enjoy greater customer and employee satisfaction, and produce superior results to stakeholders. Aligned companies focus people and their work on key goals. They de-emphasize hierarchy, and distribute leadership by distributing authority, information, knowledge, and customer data. In an aligned organization, every employee—from the executive suite to the loading dock—understands the strategy and goals of the business; and everyone knows how his or her work contributes to them. In today's complex, changing world, alignment must be achieved rapidly. - The New Leadership
The New Leadership prepares your executives, managers, supervisors, team leaders, and project leaders not only to cope with change but to harness the power of change to achieve key organizational objectives. It teaches leaders the competencies of shaping culture, achieving alignment, gaining commitment, and integrating their organization. Target Audiences: Executives, Managers, Middle Managers, Supervisors, Team Leaders and Project Leaders. Program Highlights Include:
-Harness the power of change to achieve key organizational objectives
-Achieve positive change by utilizing your organizational culture's strengths and weaknesses
-Focus and align your organization towards successful implementation of its critical goals and objectives - Healthcare Challenge
The great challenge faced by healthcare management today is achieving organizational alignment and focus in the face of constant change. Several world-class healthcare organizations, facing multiple problems, have focused on the process of organizational alignment to achieve their objectives. Labovitz discusses the key competencies that these organizations must have in order to achieve and maintain their goals. - Managing for Productivity
Labovitz focuses on the human side of productivity improvement, capitalizing on the consultants that are already on your payroll - your employees. He describes the management and supervisory practices and systems that energize and mobilize the workforce, including keys to motivation, styles of leadership, and creating and managing teams. - Quality Advantage
The Quality Advantage prepares people in all functions and at all levels of your company to become effective participants in total quality management (TQA). It teaches the concepts of work as a process and internal customers and suppliers, and provides tools so that individuals or groups can get into alignment with their internal customers to better meet their customers' needs. The program provides tools to measure the suppliers' ability to meet their customers' needs. - Influence Without Authority
Influence without Authority program prepares your managers, professionals, team leaders, and project managers to be successful champions of "quality" and move comfortably across functional lines, rally others behind their ideas, and exercise influence— even in situations in which they have no formal authority. Getting work done in organizations today requires people to work across departments. Often someone needs another person to do something for him or her, but that person doesn't report to the individual. Influence Without Authority provides tools and techniques to gain cooperation. Program Highlights Include:
-Overcome organizational and interpersonal barriers when implementing change
-Apply influence skills to make change
-Gain support for organizational improvement from bosses and peers
-Build win-win alliance with other departments
-Advance cross-functional improvements through collaborative approaches
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