The RBL Group

Allan Freed - Principal

Allan joined RBL after successfully leading a division of a fast-paced multi-national company as the General Manager of their Australia/New Zealand region. His key professional achievements are in identifying and aligning organizational behaviors and employee attributes to desired business outcomes, and the development of teams and leaders capable of delivering strategic objectives. He has a proven track record of growing a business and engaging employees.

Dave Ulrich - Co-founder

Dave has consulted and done research with over half of the Fortune 200. Dave was the editor of the Human Resource Management Journal 1990 to 1999, has served on the editorial board of 4 other journals, is on the Board of Directors for Herman Miller, is a Fellow in the National Academy of Human Resources; and is co-founder of the Michigan Human Resource Partnership.

Norm Smallwood - Co-founder

Norm is a recognized authority in developing businesses and their leaders to deliver results and increase value. His current work relates to increasing business value by building organization, strategic HR, and leadership capabilities that measurably impact market value.

Mark Nyman - Principal

Mark has spent his career assisting organizations in transforming themselves by creating strategic focus, and then aligning the design of their organizations and systems to carry out this focus. He has done executive coaching and change work in start-ups, existing organizations, mergers/joint ventures, and in numerous industries.

Justin Allen - Principal

Justin works with HR leaders in the top companies in the world, including P&G, Goldman Sachs, Intel, Unilever, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, Wal-Mart, J&J, Pfizer, and Nokia. The mission of the RBL Institute is to provide a forum for the world’s leading HR Strategists to generate ideas, share best practices, and participate in research. Participants have dubbed the RBL Institute as the world’s “#1 think tank” for human resources strategy.

Jon Younger - Principal

Jon’s career has been a mix of consulting, executive management and HR leadership. Prior to joining The RBL Group, he was Chief Learning and Talent Officer of one of the largest U.S. based financial services organizations, responsible for the leadership development, corporate learning, staffing, performance and talent management, and succession planning. He has also managed executive compensation and HR strategy.

Ernesto Uscher - Principal

For more than 20 years, Ernesto has focused on helping organizations improve through organization and leadership development. Ernesto’s work has been a blend of Strategy, Process Improvement & Organization Design with Leadership & Team Development.

Jessica Johnson - Principal

Prior to joining The RBL Group Jessica worked with Cisco where she created Cisco’s first global results-based strategy for their external events. She also consulted with various stakeholders within Cisco and provided analysis to promote data-driven decisions. Prior to that she worked at the McLean, Virginia-based consulting firm, BearingPoint. While there she managed the operations for BearingPoint’s Global Delivery Centers in India and China. She started her consulting career working on a variety of federal client projects including stand-up… Read More

Aaron Younger - Consultant

As a consultant in the Strategic HR and Leadership practices, Aaron plays a key role in the firm’s HR transformation and leadership development projects both in the U.S. and internationally. He is also a key member of an internal project that is pulling together the HR transformation playbook, which describes RBL’s award winning methodology for HR transformation and change. He is a co-author with Jon Younger and Norm Smallwood of “The A to Z of Business Ally” (2009).

Nate Thompson - Principal

Nate’s areas of expertise include building high value-added business strategies together with powerfully aligned and actionable implementation plans. He helps companies identify and create organization capabilities that will add the greatest value to customers and shareholders. Nate does extensive work helping companies analyze their leadership and HR competency models to bring them into alignment with their overall business strategy. His work focuses on aligning the internal behaviors of leaders and employees with the expectations of key external… Read More