As of July 2008 Professor Emeritus of Leadership at the Carroll School of Management at Boston College, Bill Torbert now broadly engages:

1) The ongoing transformation in the Third Age cohort (people in the third third of their lives) as we organize our personal family-and-friendship circles to support us in our approach to a good life, trusting in mutually transforming love, and helping one another face into our own transformation at death.  This action inquiry is being carried on primarily through by-invitation 3-day Alchemists’ Workparties.  See Activity Calendar for more details.

2) The ongoing transformation of leaders throughout adulthood. See, for example, David Rooke’s and my award-winning article in the April 2005 Harvard Business Review article “Seven Transformations of Leadership”; or explore www.harthill.co.uk and find the most thoroughly validated transformational leadership measure in the social scientific literature – the Sentence Completion Form (SCT) that, if you fill it out and send it in as directed, provides you with a 25-page, personally-crafted Leadership Development Profile (LDP).  Harthill also provides 3-day intensive trainings for people interested in exploring their own next developmental transformation and in potentially using the LDP as an executive coaching tool.

3) The ongoing transformation of senior teams and whole organizations as they transform through growth, ‘going public,’ merger, or new vision (see, for example, my 2004 book with associates, Action Inquiry: The Secret of Timely and Transforming Leadership, a Berrett-Koehler book available at www.bkconnection.com.)  For consulting support, please contact either Mary Stacey at Context Management Consulting Inc. via www.contextconsulting.com or Jackie Keeley at Harthill Consulting Ltd. UK via www.harthill.co.uk.

4) The ongoing transformation of the social sciences, from a supposedly neutral generalizable 3rd person descriptive study of the past to a 1st, 2nd, & 3rd person, increasingly participatory and timely action research on the present and the future as well.  See, for example, the special section of the December 2009 Integral Review  http://integral-review.org/current_issue.  See also such earlier books and articles as Learning from Experience: Toward Consciousness 1972, Creating Communities of Inquiry 1976, Managing the Corporate Dream 1987, and The Power of Balance: Transforming Self, Society and Scientific Inquiry 1991; all accessible at http://escholarship.bc.edu/william_torbert/