Dobbs Leadership Consulting

Introduction: Real transformational leadership drives results. After spending 27 years in the General Electric Company, and receiving the "Turnaround Business of the Year Award" in 2002, as the CEO of a GE Capital business, I served as the CEO for a more than $3 billion North American business, Philips Medical Systems. Following this experience, I joined one of the largest and most successful private equity firms in North America, Welsh, Carson, Anderson and Stowe, where I served as the CEO of an $850 million portfolio company, US Investigation Services. All three of these CEO roles, in three distinctly different businesses, involved turning around organizational chaos and significant financial under performance. I captured all that work and process to achieve these three turnarounds, over a ten-year period, in my recently published book, Transformational Leadership: A Blueprint for Real Organizational Change. This is not a "what"-I-did book, but a "how" I did. this book contains the secret sauce process that was used to fix all three businesses. From January 2008 to January 2011, I then served as a senior operations executive for Welsh Carson, helping to evaluate and mentor leadership in portfolio companies, as well as performing operational due diligence on potential investments. Since early this year, I have been doing motivational speaking about transformational leadership, and consulting with leadership teams, to improve business results. My customers would say they love working with me because I am real, and I have experienced enough failures to know that is how you really grow and succeed. My message is simple, and it is centered around communication, vision, best people, processes, and metrics. My book is available on Amazon, and it has several reviews that are all five stars. It is not a typical business book, and I am not a typical success story in GE. I have overcome some very tough odds in my life, and that is at the center of the entire story.