John B. McGuire

John B. McGuire, MBA

Honorary Senior Fellow & Former Practice Leader

Current Role

John B. McGuire is an Honorary Senior Fellow & Former Practice Leader. He’s an international authority on leadership culture and organizational transformation and the co-founder of our Organizational Leadership practice. He specializes in vertical leadership culture as the core mechanism in his change leadership methodology for the transformation of executives, their teams, and organizations.

Experience

John has been with us for more than 20 years. He’s also Principal of the McGuire Consultant Group and an Action Inquiry Associate charter member. He specializes in vertical leadership culture as the core mechanism in his change leadership methodology for the transformation of executives, teams, and organizations.

John’s work has been widely published, including the book Transforming Your Leadership Culture; professional journal articles from Integral Review and Leadership Quarterly to Forbes and HBR; multiple handbook chapters from Sage to Harvard Business School to CCL; op-ed columns in the Washington Post and other popular press; and an action research series of CCL white papers.

John has assisted organizations across market sectors in transformation toward interdependent leadership cultures, and previously practiced vertical transformation through senior business management positions across industries.

Education

John has an MBA from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University and an MA from the Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Science.

Insights From John B.

Organizational capabilities are the missing step between strategy and execution. Learn what they are and how to identify the most important ones for your organization.
A leadership strategy is a map that aligns investments in leadership development with the strategy, goals, and aspirations of the business.
Every organization that invests in leadership development must evaluate how the benefits stack up to the time and money invested.

Research From John B.

Discover how interdependent cultures characterized by collaborative, shared leadership require vertical mindsets with both / and thinking. Framework emphasizes that leadership culture makes or breaks strategy, requiring deep understanding of organizational beliefs and their impact on transformation success.
Understand how strategically collecting, analyzing, and using data throughout culture change initiatives reveals success and enhances effectiveness. Our evaluators challenge the misconception that impact assessment should wait until completion, demonstrating how continuous evaluation drives lasting organizational change.
Discover a framework for leadership culture and vertical transformation. Research provides a comprehensive model for understanding and developing organizational leadership cultures through developmental stages and collective capacity building.