Today’s difficulties represent a unique opportunity for leaders to lead... to get out in front. Tim Irwin discusses four ways leaders can effectively respond.
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Tim Irwin 
Dr. Tim Irwin has consulted with a number of America's most well-known and respected companies including SunTrust Banks, Chick-fil-A, Bank of America, Corning, Inc., IBM, Hoechst-Celanese, Gerber Products Company, The Ritz Carlton Hotel Company, The Coca-Cola Company, and Turner Broadcasting Systems. He is a frequent speaker on leadership and has established a niche of communicating exclusively to some of the world's most respected leaders.
As a consultant for twenty years, Dr. Irwin has assisted corporations in diverse industries and his work has taken Dr. Irwin to over twenty-five foreign countries in Europe, Latin America, Canada and the Far East.
Dr. Irwin served from 2000 to 2005 in senior management of an international consulting firm with over 300 offices worldwide. He is currently Managing Partner of Irwin, Inc. He is the author of three critically-acclaimed books, Run with the Bulls without Getting Trampled, Derailed: Five Lessons Learned from Catastrophic Failures of Leadership and New York Times Best Seller, Impact: Leadership Changes Everything
Academic Background
Dr. Irwin received his A.B. and M.A. from the University of Georgia. His Ph.D. training included a dual major in industrial/organizational and clinical psychology from Georgia State University. He is a licensed Psychologist and an adjunct professor of psychology at the University of Georgia.
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Dr. Irwin has shared his insight on numerous national media outlets including Fox Business News, Fox & Friends, CNBC, Investors Business Daily, Business Week, and The Wall Street Journal.
As a consultant for twenty years, Dr. Irwin has assisted corporations in diverse industries and his work has taken Dr. Irwin to over twenty-five foreign countries in Europe, Latin America, Canada and the Far East.
Dr. Irwin served from 2000 to 2005 in senior management of an international consulting firm with over 300 offices worldwide. He is currently Managing Partner of Irwin, Inc. He is the author of three critically-acclaimed books, Run with the Bulls without Getting Trampled, Derailed: Five Lessons Learned from Catastrophic Failures of Leadership and New York Times Best Seller, Impact: Leadership Changes Everything
Academic Background
Dr. Irwin received his A.B. and M.A. from the University of Georgia. His Ph.D. training included a dual major in industrial/organizational and clinical psychology from Georgia State University. He is a licensed Psychologist and an adjunct professor of psychology at the University of Georgia.
Media
Dr. Irwin has shared his insight on numerous national media outlets including Fox Business News, Fox & Friends, CNBC, Investors Business Daily, Business Week, and The Wall Street Journal.
Category: Entrepreneurship, Management Fundamentals, Organizational Strategies, Start Up, Work-Life, Balance
Interviews with Tim Irwin»See all
Tim Irwin joins Jim Blasingame to discuss what it takes to be a leader where others want to follow you, including focusing on respect and performance rather than popularity.
Tim Irwin joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the role that courage plays in the demonstration of your leadership as you attempt to influence others.
Tim Irwin joins Jim Blasingame to discuss the power of a corporate culture that is nurtured with intention, and used as a platform for community and marketplace leadership.
Articles by Tim Irwin»See all
Worker dissatisfaction and poor productivity are linked: Lessons from a hotel stay in Portugal.
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Books by Tim Irwin
Anyone who has run a company, raised a family, lead an army, or coached a team struggles to find the key to help others excel and realize their potential. What if we could speak Words of Life that transform those under our influence and ignite fires of intrinsic motivation? Recent discoveries of brain science and the wisdom of top CEO's that Dr. Tim Irwin interviewed for this book give us the answers we've long sought.
In most organizations, the methods used to provide feedback to employees such as performance appraisal or multi-rater feedback systems, in fact, accomplish the exact opposite of what we intend. In recent years, science discovered that affirmation sets in motion huge positive changes in the brain. It releases certain neurochemicals associated with well-being and higher performance. Amazingly, criticism creates just the opposite neural reaction.
Brain science tells us that we can establish a connection between the employee's work and his or her aspirations. Extraordinary Influence calls for a new approach to align workers with an organization's mission, strategy and goals, called Alliance Feedback.
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For more than 25 years, organizational psychologist and management consultant Dr. Tim Irwin has worked with thousands of leaders in well-known global companies. He knows most leaders work for recognition and advancement and they want more challenge and responsibility. He’s also found this to be true: Most of us want to make a positive difference through our work and to have our lives count for something more than simply making a living. We want to make an impact.
Yet when we look around our organizations, we don’t see many leaders who have real impact. We see them just managing the daily rat race. Somewhere along the line, many began working for money instead of for meaning, for status instead of for a lasting legacy.
In Impact, Irwin identifies the principles and beliefs that lead to great leadership—ways in which you can grow and thrive and be trusted by others. Learn how to be the kind of leader that motivates others in meaningful work and great accomplishments and what you can do to stay on track so you avoid a path of personal destruction so many leaders go down today.
Accessible, humorous, and engaging, Irwin’s latest book shows you how to live the vision you began your career with and then finish strong for a lasting impact, the hope of every great leader.
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Dr. Tim Irwin believes that these leaders suffer from failures of character that are common to each of us--even the most capable individuals. Deficits in authenticity, humility, self-management, and courage become more dangerous as we take on more leadership, and can cause us to ignore glaring signals that might otherwise save us from catastrophic demise. Derailed profiles the collapse of six high-profile CEOs (Robert Nardelli - Home Depot, Carly Fiorina - HP, Durk Jager - Proctor and Gamble, Steven Heyer - Starwood Hotels, Frank Raines - Fannie Mae, Dick Fuld - Lehman Brothers) and the factors that drove their downfalls, finding that derailment actually happens long before the crash and can be avoided. Derailed explains the character qualities that are essential for successful leadership and how to cultivate them so that we can avoid being derailed.
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