Robert H. Miles
Class of '67
Robert H. Miles Ph.D., President, Corporate Transformation Resources, is a thought and practice leader in the fields of corporate transformation and executive leadership. He is also Chairman of both Oakland-based Dissero Partners and Atlanta-based Galloway Consulting Group and Special Advisor on Execution and Corporate Transformation to Julius Baer, the Swiss Investment Bank.
Over the past two decades Dr. Miles has pioneered an Accelerated Corporate Transformation methodology at such leading companies as General Electric, IBM Global Services, National Semiconductor, Office Depot, the PGA TOUR, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Rockwell International, Southern Company, and Symantec, as well as a number of emerging high-tech companies. He is the author of many books on corporate transformation and organizational effectiveness, including most recently Corporate Comeback, Leading Corporate Transformation: A Blueprint for Business Renewal, and soon to be available from Financial Times Press, BIG Ideas to BIG Results.
Frequently serving as a senior adviser to executive teams as they plan, launch, and refocus corporate transformation efforts, Dr. Miles often helps new CEOs “take charge,” a process that frequently involves launching or re-energizing a corporate transformation. A hallmark of his approach has been the intensive, high-engagement, all-employee cascade, which quickly focuses everyone in the enterprise on a shared set of business performance and cultural stretch goals for breakthrough results.
At the Yale School of Management and the Harvard Business School faculties for many years, Professor Miles taught in the M.B.A., doctoral executive programs. At Harvard he was Faculty Chairman of the intensive Managing Organizational Effectiveness executive program, which helped CEOs, business presidents and their teams plan major transformation efforts. He was Dean of the Faculty and the Isaac Stiles Hopkins Professor at the Goizueta Business School of Emory University, where he also held the rank of University Distinguished Professor. Dr. Miles has served as a member of the Stanford Executive Institute faculty at Stanford University and on the Advisory Board of the U.S. Department of Energy and the Organizational Effectiveness Division of The Conference Board, and at several leading business schools.
He holds a B.S. from the McIntire School of Commerce and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the Kenan-Flagler School at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Dr. Miles resides with his wife, Jane, in Charlottesville, Va., and Chatham, Mass.