Gordon’s entire 40+ year career has been spent as a practitioner in human resource management (HRM) and human resource development (HRD).
He was Vice President, Human Resources and Chief Human Resource Officer (CHRO) for Pullman, Inc., a $6 billion, 40,000 employee international organization that manufactured transportation equipment and provided petroleum/petrochemical design engineering, procurement, and construction management services to the world’s energy sector. At the time of its sale and dissolution in 1981, Pullman Inc. was the 109th largest corporation in the U.S., the second oldest company listed on the New York Stock Exchange and held the record for the longest string of consecutive quarterly dividend payments in the history of Wall Street.
Previously Gordon worked for General Motors Corporation, Sears Roebuck and Allstate Insurance and as a human resource development (HRD) consultant for three of America’s leading behavioral scientists: Robert Blake and Jane Mouton of Managerial Grid fame and credited by historians with coining the term “organization development” (OD) and establishing the discipline of OD, and William Byham, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Development Dimensions International (DDI), who popularized the wide-spread use of assessment center methodology, developed Interaction Management (Social Learning Theory) with James Robinson and designed the popular Targeted Selection interviewing process.
During this phase of his career Gordon’s many consulting clients included Ceiba-Giegy and Merck pharmaceuticals, Federal Bureau of Investigation, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, Texas Instruments, TWA and United Airlines, Xerox, Proctor and Gamble, Merrill Lynch, Honeywell, Federal Reserve Bank, Canadian Broadcasting Company, World Bank, Baxter Laboratories, and General Dynamics.
Since the mid 1980’s Gordon has advised Arab country governments (Algeria, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, and Kuwait) in the areas of public and private sector reform while building institutional capacity through the application of proven human resource management (HRM) and human resource development (HRD) methodologies.
His consulting areas include executive and leadership development, developing high-performance organization cultures and processes, and transforming HRM and HRD departments. Gordon recently conducted the largest research study of its kind ever undertaken in the Arab Gulf region on managerial effectiveness and bureaucratic developmental capacity for the government of Kuwait.
In January 2008 Gordon assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer and Master Coach for the Arab Leadership Academy.
Gordon has a bachelor’s degree in psychology, two master degrees: MBA and MLIR (Labor and Industrial Relations), and extensive doctoral work in the areas of leadership and organization development.
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