The Yarbrough Group

World Wide Consultants In Developing The Human Side Of Organizations

The Yarbrough Group has provided in-depth consulting, training and coaching on conflict, diversity, leadership, communication and change, reaching more than 12,000 people in the last 10 years alone. In all, the firm has worked in 20 different countries and worked with clients representing a total of 39 countries and cultures.

We address every aspect of developing healthy human cultures in organizations--from individual needs and styles to interpersonal skills and effectiveness to social structures and whole systems.

One Yarbrough client, director of operations for a leading technology generation, talks about the impact on growth potential. He says, "Our people do technology development. If we develop each opportunity independently of others, we can grow 5% to 10% a year. But if we work across the boundaries of divisions and organizations, we can boost our capability to grow-up to 15% to 25%. So, over a long period of time, resolving conflict and paying attention to the intellectual and emotional needs of our employees enables us to double growth rates."

"The Yarbrough Group is absolutely transnational. They are very accessible for people from all parts of the world. They are respectful and warm, sensitive to others people's cultural identities without losing the frame of their own identity and culture. Their interactions are mature and appropriate."
-- Simon Middleton
Human Capital
Director of Central and Eastern Europe
Pricewaterhouse Coopers

Another Yarbrough client, HR director for a leading industrial company observes, "In any human system there is conflict. If you don't recognize that and have a plan, productivity will evaporate." A recent intervention to help a talented manager resolve a painful conflict through mediation, enabled the company to retain the employee and make him a much more effective leader. What's that worth? Accordiing to this HR executive, "If you consider cost to terminate, cost to replace and lost productivity, the cost would have been around $250,000."

"Elaine and her folks have an amazing talent for integration: people skills, intuition and the theory of organizational development. And there is a very significant impact on the bottom line."
-- Mary Peery
General Manager
Hewlett Packard