Ralph Jacobson
Ralph Jacobson has written the only book that shows how to build a company of leaders.
Ralph Jacobson builds companies of leaders. He teaches leaders how to tackle the challenges in front of them. He offers innovative leadership development programs that help leaders see a new way to lead and provides them with practical and powerful tools to create employee commitment and organizational success. Ralph'? s proprietary leadership development program, The Leader'? s Toolbox' is designed to unlock the power of leaders who work together to ensure long-term organization success. He helps leaders communicate and plan for change. He uses large-scale organizational change techniques to simultaneously involve all employees in a meaningful way, thus reducing the time and increasing the effectiveness in making transitions. Ralph is a strategist, trainer, coach, speaker and facilitator.
For more than twenty years he provided innovative solutions for Fortune 50 organizations as well as emerging growth companies in a wide variety of industries. For the last fourteen years he has been the Principal of Synthesis Consulting, Inc. He has held executive Human Resource positions with Medtronic, Crosfield Dicomed, and General Growth Center Companies. He was recognized by Executive Excellence Magazine as one of the country'? s top leadership development experts. His book, Leading for a Change: How to Master the Five Challenges Faced by Every Leader was nominated by mgeneral.com as one of the top business books for the year 2000. Ralph is the contributing author to The Change Champions Field Guide, published June 2003 and a number of business journals and magazines. He received the American Express Quality Award for his consulting work and was an examiner for the Minnesota Quality Award. He is coach within Marshall Goldsmith Partner'? s network. Ralph is an adjunct faculty member in the Physician'? s Leadership College, University of St. Thomas. He holds advanced degrees in psychology and human resources from The Ohio State University and the University of Minnesota
