Hamilton-Chase Consulting provides executive coaching, talent assessment, and organizational studies

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Welcome to Hamilton-Chase Consulting. We help businesses succeed by making their people more successful. Our job is to help individuals and organizations overcome the all-too-human obstacles that impede performance and profitability.

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Are your managers capable of leading?

Can you do more to retain and develop your high potentials?

Have you hired or promoted top people who didn't perform as expected?

Is your business less productive because people are not collaborating effectively?

Do you have a complete understanding of the strengths and limitations of your key employees?

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THE H-C DIFFERENCE

The Hamilton-Chase Difference

At Hamilton-Chase Consulting we're proud of our behavioral science background. Our firm is headed by a psychologist with nearly 20 years of experience assisting business people. Our approach is based on established science, not on the latest unproven management trends or buzzwords.

Although we employ advanced psychological tools and techniques, we're committed to working with you in a straightforward, business-friendly manner. We dislike "consultant-speak" and "psychobabble" just as much as you do, and so we promise to clearly say what we mean and mean what we say.

We understand that time is money and we recognize that far too many consulting projects use up way too much of both. That said, we also don't believe in quick fixes - not when it comes to people - and we won't water down a project to the point that it has no chance of succeeding. Our strategy is to target our services as efficiently and effectively as possible.

SERVICES

INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT

Executive coaching for managers, senior leaders and other professionals

Turnaround derailing individuals

360-degree survey design, administration, and feedback

Enhancing Effectiveness Coaching.pdf

Derailment.pdf

Our philosophy about 360âs.pdf

TALENT ASSESSMENT

Evaluate candidates prior to hiring or promotion

Assessment of benchstrength

Succession and pre-retirement planning

Behavioral Interviewing - design and training

Hire By Design.pdf

ExecutiveDevelopment and Succession1.pdf

ORGANIZATIONAL SERVICES

Competency Model development to ensure consistency and accuracy in hiring and promotion decisions

Vision-Mission-Core Values workshops

Organizational audits to identify and address barriers that impede collaboration

Transform work groups and boards of directors into high-performance teams

Retention Strategies to keep valued employees

Development of Competency Models White Paper.pdf

Retention.pdf

PRIVATE INDIVIDUAL EXECUTIVE COACHING

For business owners and individuals who seek the benefits of executive coaching on a private basis, we offer a special program that provides a higher degree of confidentiality.

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ABOUT US

Our LeadershipLarry Gard is a licensed psychologist and the founder of Chicago-based Hamilton-Chase Consulting. Dr. Gard has assisted a wide variety of business professionals and organizations since 1991. He received a bachelors degree in psychology with honors from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. His doctorate in clinical psychology is from Northwestern University Medical School. Dr. Gard has presented throughout Chicagoland on various workplace topics. He is a member of the Society of Consulting Psychology of the American Psychological Association.Click here to read Dr. Gard's online blog

No Frame

Our Core ValuesOffer people an experience that helps them develop and succeed.Treat others fairly and with respect.Details matter; so do ethics and professionalism.Be responsive and responsible.Partial Client ListDr. Gard has worked with high level individuals from the following companies:ABN AMRO, BP Amoco, CNA Insurance, Cole Taylor Bank, Gensler, Greeley & Hansen, Harris Bank, JMB Insurance, Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Leo Burnett, Northern Trust, Prudential

No Frame

Our PhilosophyAt Hamilton-Chase Consulting, we believe that individuals can indeed change but the most substantive and permanent growth occurs when people develop from the inside out. Real change has to start from within, beginning with self awareness - an elusive element at best. By analogy, you can probably do an acceptable job of combing your hair while looking out of the window but chances are you'll achieve better results by using a mirror. Self-awareness is critical because it allows a person to emphasize productive traits and behaviors, while self-managing the counterproductive ones.

Our Address

One South Dearborn, Suite 2100

Chicago IL 60603

Our office is located at the southeast corner of Madison and Dearborn. The building security desk requires that visitors be scheduled in advance and that they present photo identification.

phone: 312-787-9620

email: info_hamiltonchaseconsulting.com

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