HAROLD HILLMAN PhD
Managing Director ▪ Leadership Coach ▪ Author
Why Authentic Leadership Really Matters
Authenticity is at the core of our ability to connect with and influence others, and to be influenced by them. There are pressures in society and certainly in the work place that put a higher premium on wearing the mask of perfection, rather than acknowledging your strengths and those areas in which you could benefit from some personal stretch or allowing yourself to let others help you. Imperfection begets authenticity, which means that you have to get comfortable with not being a perfect person and you have to understand that great leadership is about letting others help you be successful, primarily because of who you are. Dr. Hillman will introduce a model that defines what authentic leadership looks like in action, and advocate why authenticity really matters in the work place.
About Harold Hillman
Harold Hillman is the Managing Director of Sigmoid Curve Consulting Group, a company he launched in December 2006. The sigmoid curve is an algebraic formula that shows how growth and momentum are best sustained by proactively anticipating when and how to disrupt the status quo. Sigmoid specialises in tools and frameworks that help leadership teams make those choices wisely and with a collective sense of ownership and commitment to strong results. Since change really is the only constant in business, developing the capability to lead it, rather than be led by it, is the true hallmark of successful and enduring organisations.
Hillman migrated to New Zealand in 2003 to join Fonterra and help lay the foundation for the dairy co-operative to realise its vision of being the global leader in dairy. He served in two roles with Fonterra, initially as Interim Group HR Director on the Fonterra Leadership Team and then in the role for which he was recruited, Director of Talent & Organisational Development. Harold’s contributions established Fonterra as a benchmark in people engagement strategies, evidenced by strong performance on key engagement factors typically tracked by global companies of comparable size.
Over the past two decades, Hillman has worked with a number of prominent chief executives and their teams in the U.S. and Australasia, including Larry Fuller of Amoco, Art Ryan of Prudential Financial, Irene Rosenfeld of Kraft Foods and Sanjay Khosla of Kraft Foods International, Andrew Ferrier of Fonterra, Graham Stuart of Sealord, Simon Carter and Pat Hills of Transfield Worley, Ken Rivers of Shell and Refining NZ, Andrew Thorburn of Bank of New Zealand, Rick Ellis of TVNZ and Doug McKay of Auckland Council. His other clients include Foodstuffs, Tegel, RD1, Air New Zealand, University of Melbourne, Duke University (USA) and FMG.
Hillman’s career highlights include:
Harold Hillman earned a Master’s Degree in Education from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh (USA). Hillman coaches business leaders and executive teams to appreciate the strong relationship between leadership and learning. He believes that the best leaders are also the most skilled learners.
Hillman is frequently invited to deliver keynote speeches and presentations at conferences in the arena of talent and human capital. His first book, The Impostor Syndrome: Becoming An Authentic Leader, was published by Random House New Zealand in December 2013.
www.sigmoidcurve.com
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Authenticity is at the core of our ability to connect with and influence others, and to be influenced by them. There are pressures in society and certainly in the work place that put a higher premium on wearing the mask of perfection, rather than acknowledging your strengths and those areas in which you could benefit from some personal stretch or allowing yourself to let others help you. Imperfection begets authenticity, which means that you have to get comfortable with not being a perfect person and you have to understand that great leadership is about letting others help you be successful, primarily because of who you are. Dr. Hillman will introduce a model that defines what authentic leadership looks like in action, and advocate why authenticity really matters in the work place.
About Harold Hillman
Harold Hillman is the Managing Director of Sigmoid Curve Consulting Group, a company he launched in December 2006. The sigmoid curve is an algebraic formula that shows how growth and momentum are best sustained by proactively anticipating when and how to disrupt the status quo. Sigmoid specialises in tools and frameworks that help leadership teams make those choices wisely and with a collective sense of ownership and commitment to strong results. Since change really is the only constant in business, developing the capability to lead it, rather than be led by it, is the true hallmark of successful and enduring organisations.
Hillman migrated to New Zealand in 2003 to join Fonterra and help lay the foundation for the dairy co-operative to realise its vision of being the global leader in dairy. He served in two roles with Fonterra, initially as Interim Group HR Director on the Fonterra Leadership Team and then in the role for which he was recruited, Director of Talent & Organisational Development. Harold’s contributions established Fonterra as a benchmark in people engagement strategies, evidenced by strong performance on key engagement factors typically tracked by global companies of comparable size.
Over the past two decades, Hillman has worked with a number of prominent chief executives and their teams in the U.S. and Australasia, including Larry Fuller of Amoco, Art Ryan of Prudential Financial, Irene Rosenfeld of Kraft Foods and Sanjay Khosla of Kraft Foods International, Andrew Ferrier of Fonterra, Graham Stuart of Sealord, Simon Carter and Pat Hills of Transfield Worley, Ken Rivers of Shell and Refining NZ, Andrew Thorburn of Bank of New Zealand, Rick Ellis of TVNZ and Doug McKay of Auckland Council. His other clients include Foodstuffs, Tegel, RD1, Air New Zealand, University of Melbourne, Duke University (USA) and FMG.
Hillman’s career highlights include:
- Chief Aviation Psychologist, Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, South Carolina
- Assistant Professor and Director, Leadership Programs at the US Air Force Academy, Colorado
- Director, Amoco Management Learning Center, Amoco Corporation, Chicago
- Dean, Amoco Marketing University, Amoco Corporation, Chicago
- Vice President, Executive Development, Prudential Financial, New York
- Corporate Vice President & Chief Learning Officer, Prudential Financial, New York
Harold Hillman earned a Master’s Degree in Education from Harvard University and a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the University of Pittsburgh (USA). Hillman coaches business leaders and executive teams to appreciate the strong relationship between leadership and learning. He believes that the best leaders are also the most skilled learners.
Hillman is frequently invited to deliver keynote speeches and presentations at conferences in the arena of talent and human capital. His first book, The Impostor Syndrome: Becoming An Authentic Leader, was published by Random House New Zealand in December 2013.
www.sigmoidcurve.com
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