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.

We’ve found that organizational leadership cultures tend to fall into 3 types and, with maturity, evolve from one to the other. Which one best describes how your organization functions?
Discover how vertical development opens the door to deeper understanding, greater clarity, and multiple right answers — especially necessary for senior leaders balancing complexity and competing priorities.
If our strategy is so good, why isn't our performance? Consider whether there is strategic leadership alignment on your executive team. Here are 6 things to do to increase alignment and improve performance.