DR. JAMES WALDROOP

Dr. James Waldroop

A principal and co-founder of CareerLeader, LLP, Jim Waldroop was until 2001 Co-Director of MBA Career Development Programs at the Harvard Business School, where he worked since 1981. Together with Dr. Timothy Butler (also of the Harvard Business School) he developed the Internet-based interactive career assessment program CareerLeader® currently used by over 400 MBA programs and corporations around the world. Waldroop and Butler also designed the Business Career Interest Inventory, the Management and Professional Reward Profile, and the Management and Professional Abilities Profile, as well as CareerLeader-College™, and TalentRetainer™.

Jim's work focuses on two areas of interface between psychology and the world of business: individual management development (executive effectiveness development) and career development assessment and counseling. He has worked with a wide range of organizations in both the manufacturing and service sectors, from Fortune 50 corporations to smaller high-growth firms. His clients include McKinsey & Company, Fidelity Management Research Company, GTE, General Electric, Maximus, Citibank, Accenture, Sony Music Entertainment, KPMG Peat Marwick, Fleet, Gillette, Pepsi-Cola, Dow Chemical Company, Boise-Cascade, Hewlett-Packard, Genuity, PA Consulting, Premier Health Care, AMS, Spaulding & Slye, Bolt Beranek Newman, Globespan Capital Partners, Boston Edison, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Mercer Management Consulting, Philip Morris, Boston Communications Group, Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath, and the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation.

Publications (co-authored with Tim Butler) include:

• "The Hidden Flaws of Top Executives: How to Find Them Before You Hire Them" (HR Professional, in press).
• "Understanding 'People' People" (Harvard Business Review, June, 2004).
• "A Function-Centered Model of Interest Assessment for Business Careers" (Journal of Career Assessment, August, 2004).
• "What a Star -- What a Jerk" (with Sarah Cliffe) (Harvard Business Review, September, 2001).
• "Redefining Roles, Customizing Careers" (Pathways: The Novartis Journal, July, 2001).
• The Twelve Bad Habits that Hold Good People Back (Currency Doubleday, 2000). Foreign language editions in Arabic, Korean, Mandarin and Taiwanese Chinese, Portuguese, Thai.
• "Managing Away Bad Habits" (Harvard Business Review, September-October, 2000).
• "Guess What? You're Not Perfect" (Fortune, October 16, 2000).
• "The Art of Work" (Employment Relations Today, October, 2000).
• "Job Sculpting: The Art of Retaining Your Best People" (Harvard Business Review, September-October, 1999).
• "Eight Failings That Bedevil the Best" (Fortune, November 23, 1998).
• "Finding the Job You Should Want" (Fortune, March 2, 1998).
• Discovering Your Career in Business (Addison-Wesley, 1997). Foreign language editions in Dutch and Mandarin Chinese.
• "The Executive as Coach" (Harvard Business Review, November-December, 1996).
• "Managing Your Career" and "Retaining Valued Employees" (Harvard ManageMentor, Harvard Business School Press).

Jim has lectured at business schools, corporations, and other organizations throughout the United States, Canada, and Europe, appears frequently as a keynote speaker and is frequently interviewed in various popular media on topics related to attracting and retaining talent and maximizing performance. He earned a Ph.D. in psychology in 1972 from the University of Texas at Austin.