About The Axelrod Group

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The best way to make change happen within your organization – indeed, the only reliable way – is for leaders and employees to come together, understand each other’s positions, and use the unique knowledge in the room to help drive the company’s effort.

The Axelrod Group can help you make that happen.

We design collaborative systems that enable leaders and employees to jointly construct a company that is both profitable and worthy of pride.

Some have called our practices “organizational barn raising” because the focus and energy demonstrated by participants reminds them of the old-fashioned community barn raisings, during which neighbors would erect a sturdy building within a weekend. We like that comparison. When a company is focused and the working environment encourages spirited involvement, remarkable things can occur quickly.

The Axelrod Group Founders

Dick and Emily Axelrod founded The Axelrod Group, Inc., a consulting firm that pioneered the use of employee involvement to effect large‑scale organizational change.  They now bring thirty years of consulting and teaching experience to this work, with clients including Boeing, Coca‑Cola, Harley‑Davidson, and Hewlett Packard.  Dick and Emily are faculty in University of Chicago’s Leadership Arts Program and Dick is faculty in Columbia University’s Principals and Practices in Organization Development program.   Dick serves on the Board of Directors of Berrett-Koehler Publishers and authored Terms of Engagement: Changing the Way We Change Organizations, and Dick and Emily co‑authored You Don’t Have to Do It Alone: How to Involve Others to Get Things Done, along with Julie Beedon and Robert Jacobs, which the New York Times calls, “the best of the current crop of books on this subject.”  Dick’s latest e‑book is How to Get People to Care about What You Find Important.

Visit us at www.AxelrodGroup.com or contact us directly at 847.251.7361 or at info@AxelrodGroup.com

Some have called our practices “organizational barn raising” because the focus and energy shown by participants reminds them of the old-fashioned community barn raisings, during which people would work together to quickly produce quality results. We like that comparison.