Bill is Leadership Professor Emeritus at Boston College. He has consulted worldwide and served at numerous boards. Bill’s leadership article “Seven Transformations of Leadership” was selected as the “10 best ever” by Harvard Business Review. He is also the father of the Global Leadership Profile (GLP).
Having received both his BA in Politics and Economics and his PhD in Individual and Organisational Behavior from Yale, Bill served as Founder and Director of both the War on Poverty Yale Upward Bound Programme and the Theatre of Inquiry. He also taught leadership at Southern Methodist University, the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and then, from 1978-2008 at the Carroll Graduate School of Management at Boston College, where he also served as Graduate Dean (the BC MBA programme’s ranking rising from below the top 100 to #25 during his tenure) and later served as Director of the Organisational Transformation Doctoral Programme.
In addition to consulting companies, not-for-profits, and governmental agencies, Torbert has served on numerous Boards, notably at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care when it was rated the #1 HMO nationally in the US; and, for twenty years, at Trillium Asset Management, the original and largest independent Socially Responsible Investing firm, founded by Bill’s friend Joan Bavaria, a rare CEO who was at once visionary, strategic, executive, and also truly collaborative.