DR. TIMOTHY BUTLER

Dr. Timothy Butler

A principal and co-founder of CareerLeader, LLP, Dr. Timothy Butler is Senior Fellow of Business Administration and Director of Career Development Programs at the Harvard Business School, where he has worked since 1984. He has worked as a psychologist, psychotherapist, and career counselor for over thirty years. Together with Dr. James Waldroop, he developed CareerLeader®, which is currently used by over 400 MBA programs and corporations around the world, and includes the Business Career Interest Inventory, the Leadership Motivations Profile, and the Leadership Skills Profile, all instruments designed by Butler and Waldroop.

For over 25 years, Dr. Butler's research has explored the relationship between personality structure and finding and sustaining meaningful careers. In his research and consulting work, Dr. Butler has interviewed thousands of business professionals from a wide range of industries and functions. His psychological testing database now contains profiling on over 350,000 individuals from 84 countries. He has lectured and taught business career self-assessment and career counseling process at universities around the world. He has also worked with a wide range of organizations and with business professionals from both the manufacturing and service sectors, from Fortune 500 corporations to smaller high-growth firms. CareerLeader, LLP' clients include McKinsey & Company, Fidelity Management Research Company, Sony Music Entertainment, Globespan Capital Partners, Boston Communications Group, Pittiglio Rabin Todd & McGrath, Manpower, the Boston Consulting Group, and the Kuwait Petroleum Corporation.

Publications (co-authored with Jim Waldroop unless noted otherwise) include:

• Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New Paths sole author (HBS Press, 2007)
• "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).

Tim has lectured at business schools, corporations, and other organizations throughout the North America, Asia, 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.