Elaine Herdman Barker

Elaine Herdman-Barker is Co-founder & Partner for Mutual Growth…and the search for the common good at Global Leadership Associates. Elaine co-created the Global Leadership Profile and MyWorldview and is a leading authority on leadership action-logic assessment and change. She consults across multiple sectors, with a worldwide coaching practice, specializing in the development of high potential leaders and senior executives.

Elaine is dedicated to helping individuals liberate their leadership skills by unlocking untapped potential and developing their leadership capabilities and strategic thinking skills. Her passion is in supporting high potential leaders to realize their talent. She approaches coaching, group facilitation and leadership development programmes from the position that individuals have an inexhaustible resource from which to build their leadership capacity. Her fundamental aim is to uphold the talents of the person and to bring forward their unique style while facilitating a match with the goals of the organization.

Elaine is a leading world authority on assessing and profiling action logics/leadership paradigms and supports organizations to apply this practice to transform leadership effectiveness.

Elaine also hosts the ever popular Leading for Good podcast series, gathering people who are transforming leadership and aiming to stretch the concept of “a leader’s footprint”. Can leaders tip the world towards the good and contribute in ways that both feel good and are profitable? Alongside strategic thinkers from organisations worldwide, she investigates what “Leading for Good” entails.

Publications

Herdman Barker E & Torbert W. Generating and measuring practical differences in leadership performance at postconventional action-logics: e. In A. Coombs, A. Pfaffenberger & P. Marko (Ed.s) The Postconventional Personality: Perspectives on Higher Development. Albany NY: SUNY Academic Press.

Herdman Barker E, Livne-Tarandach R, McCallum D, Nicolaides A and Torbert W et al. Developmental Action Inquiry: An integral approach that actually integrates theory, practice, and research in action. (Ed.s) Integral Research Suny Press.

Herdman Barker. E. & Jironet K. Next Generation of Leaders in K Jironet, H Starren and P Harris, (Eds) Leadership Talks unifying Leadership in a Post crisis World.

Herdman-Barker.E. & Erfan, A.. Clearing Obstacles: An Exercise to Expand a Person’s Repertoire of Action. In H. Bradbury (Ed). The Sage Handbook of Action Research (Third Edition).

Herdman-Barker & Wallis, N. Imperfect Beauty: Hierarchy and Fluidity in Leadership Development. In Challenging Organisations and Society Reflective Hybrids. In Press/May 2016

Leading for Good podcast www.gla.global/leadingforgood

Webinars

Fallback…the good, the bad and the ugly! With Elaine Herdman-Barker and Valerie Livesay

Conversations

Inviting Vertical Development into Coaching: Interview with Elaine Herdman-Barker & Bill Torbert