David Beaty

Profile

David Beaty has taught over 15 years on MBA and Executive Education Programmes in South Africa and the United States. He is an accomplished speaker and trainer and has consulted for over 20 years with public and private sector firms in South Africa, Europe and the United States. Among honours he received is an appointment as Faculty Fellow at the prestigious Office of the Secretary for Defence (Pentagon) over a five year period.  

David Beaty is a prolific writer and has published widely on topics in Leadership, Productivity and Change Management. His articles have appeared in such prestigious journals as the Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, Journal of Organisational Behaviour, Journal of Managerial Issues, International Management Journal, Journal of Management Education and the Organisational Behaviour Teaching Review. His most recent book is Lessons from South Africa: A New Perspective on Public Policy and Productivity (New York: HarperCollins). He is currently on the Editorial Review Board of the South African Journal of Labour Relations.

Responsibilities

​Adjunct faculty 

Consulting Involvement

• Currently consults for private and public sector firms in South Africa on Leading Self (Person-Situation fit), Leading Others (Team Development, Influencing and Relationship Building), Leading for Superior Performance (Productivity Improvements)

• Currently designed (with Professor Hofmeyr) a 360-degree online Leadership Instrument (Leadership in Action) and a 360-degree online Coaching Instrument (Manager as Coach)

• Conducts High Level Executive Coaching for CEO’s and senior executives in SA and Globally

• Lead consultant and trainer for the “Challenge of World Class Leadership” Management Development Programmes held in Geneva (Switzerland) for Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceutical Firm (2001-2010)

• Consultant for institutionalizing the “Living the Values” culture for senior executives and mid-level managers in DaimlerChrysler – South Africa (2010)

• Consultant for “Transformation and Change Management Interventions” in Unilever  - South Africa (2009)

• Lectured and Trained on over 100 In-Company and Public Executive Education Programmes and Seminars for the Gordon Institute of Business Science (2000 – present).

• Taught on Corporate In-house and Public Management Development Programmes at the Graduate School of Business Leadership, University of South Africa, (1995-2000).

• Designed and awarded a competitive contract ($1 million over 4 years) and Project Manager and Principle Instructor for Department of Army’s Civilian Personnel Administration Program Managers Course, Hampton University, 1990-1993.

• Consultant with the Personnel and Security Directorate in the Office of the Secretary of Defence (OSO) (Pentagon, Washington, D.C.) on: Planning and Recruitment Strategies for the OSD to the Year 2000: Formulating

Significant Achievements

• Selected as a Faculty Fellow to work in the Summer Faculty Programme in the Personnel and Security Directorate in the Office of the Secretary of Defence (OSO) (Pentagon, Washington D.C.

• Received the Outstanding Teacher Excellence Award (2006) from the University of Pretoria’s Gordon Institute of Business Science.

• Published in the prestigious Harvard Business Review.

Qualifications

• ​BA (Bryan College)
  
• MA (Middle Tennessee State University)
• PhD (University of Port Elizabeth)

Fields of Interest

• ​Leadership
• Organisational behaviour
• Change and Transformation​
  
• Storytelling​​
  

Professional Memberships

• ​​Academy of Management
• Registered Psychologist with the Health Professions of South Africa​