Noel M. Tichy 

Noel M. Tichy

NOEL M. TICHY is a Professor of Management & Organizations at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan, where he is the director of the Global Business Partnership, which for over a decade ran the Global Leadership Program, a 36-company consortium of Japanese, European, and North American companies who partnered to develop senior executives and conduct action research on globalization in China, India, Russia, and Brazil.

In the mid 1980s, Dr. Tichy was head of GE’s Leadership Center, the fabled Crotonville, where he led the transformation to action learning at GE. Between 1985 – 1987, Dr. Tichy was Manager of Management Education for General Electric where he directed its worldwide development efforts at Crotonville. Prior to joining the Michigan faculty, he served for nine years on the Columbia University Business School faculty.

Linkage and Dr. Tichy have been working together for many years inside a variety of client organizations. The decision was made recently to create a formal partnership and introduce a proven methodology known as Leaders Developing Leaders (LDL) to organizations worldwide.