Education
Brigham Young University. University of California, Los Los Angeles
professor speaker author management consultant
Brigham Young University. University of California, Los Los Angeles
He has written numerous books covering topics in human resources and leadership. Ulrich is currently on the Board of Directors for Herman Miller, a Fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources, and is on the Board of Trustees of Southern Virginia University. Dave Ulrich has been ranked the #1 Management Educator & Guru by BusinessWeek, selected by Fast Company as one of the 10 most innovative and creative leaders, and named the most influential thinker in Human Resources of the decade by Human Resources magazine.
Ulrich was born in the small town of Ely, Nevada, but grew up in Oregon.
His father worked as a forester building campgrounds, then transferred in order to direct social programs for Job Corps. His mother spent time in church and community service.
The Ulrich family lived subsequently in Kansas City, Missouri, where he attended high school. Ulrich attended Brigham Young University where he completed his undergraduate degree in University Studies in five semesters and began graduate school in Organizational Behavior.
He completed his doctorate in business at University of California, Los Los Angeles
Dave Ulrich’s professional focus has addressed questions on how organizations add value to customers and investors through both leadership and strategic human resource practices.
In the human resource area, he and his colleagues have worked to redefine and upgrade Human Resources. He has also co-directed research on over 40,000 respondents about the competencies required for successful Human Resources professionals. In addition, he has helped shape thinking on how to transform Human Resources practices so that they are aligned to customer needs and integrated around organization capabilities. In the leadership area, Norm Smallwood and Ulrich have worked to focus on the outcomes of effective leadership.
They have also shown how leadership will increase customer share by creating a leadership brand within the company.
Their work also illustrates that investing in leadership will increase shareholder value. Their work also synthesizes the thicket of leadership competency models into a unified view of leadership.
Their current work attempts to look at leadership through the eyes and expectations of investors.