Powerful Professionals: Getting Your Expertise Used Inside Your Organization (2nd Edition)

This book is to professionals what management books are to managers. Chock full of checklists, dos and don'ts, models, assessments, worksheets and flowcharts, this is designed to help professionals: -market their skills -establish 50-50 partnerships with managers -sell their ideas and proposals -establish powerful professional roles -secure client commitment to action

Murray and Eilis Hiebert manage a consulting organization specializing in professional development and organizational effectiveness from their Calgary, Canada office. Murray has published a world-class internal Consulting Skills for Professionals Workshop, part of which are client feedback surveys, which have provided Murray with the world's largest database on high performance skills of professionals--as seen by their own internal customers. The constantly upgraded workshop is presented by associates in the U.S.A., Canada, Europe and Asia in English, German, French and Spanish.

Murray's second book, The Encyclopedia of Leadership, co-authored with Bruce Klatt was released January 2001 by McGraw-Hill Business Books. Designed to provide modern, busy leaders with practical help in 15 minutes or less, it includes 130 classical and modern leadership tools, each summarized in a few pages, including application worksheets. An accompanying Coaching Guide will provide content and application focus for many successful coaching meetings. Leadership development materials are also available.

Murray's skills and experience cover a wide range, with proven specialty in professional productivity--developing internal professionals and world-class internal consulting groups. With clients ranging from multinational petrochemical companies through very large utilities to small entrepreneurial organizations, Murray consults in the strategy of professional groups, marketing internal professional groups, internal customer service, career management, change management, organizational and work redesign and strategy development. He has worked with a wide range of organizations in Canada, U.S.A. and worldwide. He has presented workshops from the Arctic Circle to Brazil and across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Murray has presented on the topic of internal consulting and professional productivity at professional gatherings all over North America including for the ASTD, Linkage Inc.'s Consulting Skills Conference and the Association for Internal Management Consultants.

Murray, who has a Masters Degree in Science, has published numerous articles in scientific journals, professional newsmagazines, international human resource development journals, Executive Excellence, The Wall Street Journal and the AIMC Forum. His work has been selected for the American Society for Training and Development's The Best of... series.Eilis Hiebert has worked in international development for many years, living and working in North America, Europe, Africa, India and Singapore. She designs and delivers programs in the area of cross-cultural relations to diverse groups. Her extensive writing and editing experience includes publishing a series of brochures on world religions and production of an award winning TV series. She has been Murray's writing (and life) partner for many years.