Richard G. Lazar PhD
Richard G. Lazar, PhD
Chairman of The Lazar Group, Incorporated
CEO, Build Products That Create Jobs Institute
Dr. Lazar developed the New American Leadership System™. It is a complete, systematically planned program of training and development for leaders and their teams. The New American Leadership System™ was refined and implemented in over thirty years of solid success within organizations across the United States.
He has worked with managers and their start-ups to get their products produced and their research and development executed properly. As an entrepreneur of three small, profitable businesses he practices what he preaches and teaches. The New American Products initiative is a logical next step.
Dr. Lazar is well known as the developer and a leader in Team Excellence™. He is nationally known as an executive coach and he certifies coaches in his methods. Emphasis has been on exited military members who want to start businesses and creates jobs. He loves working with creative people.
Dr. Lazar has applied the New American Leadership System™ at IBM, Aspen Tech, Tandem Computers, Genentech, American Express, Satellite Business Systems, Credit Suisse Bank, and Burlington Northern Railroad among others. He has an impressive string of successes with a wide range of industries that include financial people, high technology teams, sales persons, branch office managers and senior executives.
In 1970, he recognized that there was a need to find ways to develop collaboration within organizations and competition outside of them. He found that many organizations compete internally in ways that harm the team and the individuals. He returned to NYU to work with Peter Drucker to complete his PhD, and built a management model around the team concept of winning sports teams. The New American Leadership System™ technology evolved and has since worked successfully for more than 45,000 leaders and managers.
Prior to founding United States Management Technology, Inc., Dr. Lazar was President of the Organizational Productivity Division of Lee-Hecht & Associates, Inc. He served as a Group Executive and Vice President, Human Resources for the Information Services Group at Chase Manhattan Bank, N.A. Before that, he worked with IBM, beginning as Director of Personnel for Science Research Associates, Inc. At IBM, he was a senior Management Development consultant where he coached senior teams to build hardware and software products with Quality and Profit.
Influenced by Carôn, they transformed their life work into a new division of The Lazar Group called The Lazar Character Academy which is the arm that publishes and sells their books, CDs, workshops and licensing and certification programs to train future Character Coaches.
MILITARY
He served in the U.S. Army from 1957-1959 assigned to the U.S. Army Human Engineering Laboratory as Project Manager for the LaCrosse Missile System.
