How We Work
Managing Partners Ken Hyatt, Tom Schaub, Liz McClintock and Eric Henry formed CMPartners in 2003, combining their individual practices and more than 50 years of training and consulting experience into one firm.
Our intellectual heritage is rooted in the work of Professor Roger Fisher, co-author of Getting To Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In. Professor Fisher is the founder and Director of the Harvard Negotiation Project, and works with CMPartners in an advisory capacity and has been a long-time mentor of and colleague to its managing partners.
A Community of Practice
Today, CMPartners operates largely as a "community of practice" in which our core team of five partners brings their extensive experience to the design, management, and delivery of our services.
As a "community of practice" we draw upon a global and diverse group of consultants, with experts in many fields including finance, supply chain management, organizational development, governance, public policy, talent coordination, psychology, and world trade. We also draw upon academic professionals in similar fields from Harvard, MIT, and the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and we partner with affiliated organizations where appropriate to deliver value to our clients.
Partnering with Clients
As a boutique firm, our objective is not growth: it is producing results in sustainable partnerships with our clients. So we build project teams based on the project needs, shared team values, and mutual dedication to the client's objectives.
In our experience, partnering, sustainability, and results depend on:
- Mutual commitment to shared objectives;
- Aligning organizational systems with desired behaviors;
- Seeing individuals as members of teams;
- Seeing skill enhancement as a shared journey, not a one-time info-tainment experience;
- Commitment in the business line as well as in HR;
- A direct link between skills work and actual business problems, with a shared sense of what the Return On Investment (ROI) will be; and,
- Leadership buy-in, modeling, support, coaching.
