Darwin L. Gillett IV

President, Institute for Human Economics

Executive Career Summary

As the developer of Human Energy Economics, which creates and maximizes organizational human energy capital and the Noble Enterprise approach to uplifting people and profts, Darwin Gillett is an expert in expanding and applying the full range of human potential in the work environment in order to increase a company’s growth and profitability.

Gillett has more than thirty years of line and staff management and consulting accomplishments expanding corporate profitability and building organizational capacity for manufacturing and services businesses. His experience includes: strategic, financial and business planning in Fortune 500 companies in chemicals, plastics, electrical and electronic manufacturing; sales and market expansion in personal products and power utility industry; revitalization of manufacturing and professional service firms; and a broad range of consulting assignments in pharmaceuticals, paper and packaging, chemicals, international publishing, banking, industrial distribution, and for professional services firms.

A strategic thinker with a comprehensive understanding of how to organize, manage and motivate people for optimum business results, Gillett has in-depth knowledge of finance, systems, strategic visioning, organization development, business analysis and planning, and executive counseling. An effective business speaker and designer of educational seminars, Gillett is a clear and persuasive communicator with an entrepreneurial spirit and a well developed sense of personal and professional integrity.

Management Positions

Darwin Gillett is president of Noble Advisors, an international consulting organization, specializing in holistic organizational performance improvement based on the effective management of human energy systems and human capital.

He is also founder and president of the Institute for Human Economics, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to researching and communicating new models of managerial science for leaders of businesses and other work organizations.

Previous Positions include:

Director of Corporate Planning of Hubbell Inc., a leading Fortune 500 manufacturer of electrical and electronic wiring devices and lighting equipment, where he developed the company's diversification strategy and revitalized division planning.

Earlier, he led Union Carbide's two-year project that created the company's strategic and planning process integrated in the company's other planning processes.

Mr. Gillett was also President and CEO of Formatron, a manufacturer of equipment for the beauty industry, where he built strategic alliances with beauty distributors.

He also served as Director of Administration of a full service, 85-attorney law firm, where he revitalized the support staff, upgraded the firm's information technology, improved client service and restored profit growth.

Education

University of Chicago, MBA,
Business Economics & Finance

Yale University, BA, Economics

Executive Development

Mr. Gillett has lectured and taught courses on business strategy and leadership at leading universities including Boston College's Carroll School of Management, Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, Fordham Business School and the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis.

Business Author
Yale Business Economist
Business Strategist
Business Consultant
Executive Coach
Change Catalyst
Organizational Performance Specialist
Executive Educator
Specialist in Human Economics and Optimizing Human Capital
Corporate Futurist

Originator of
"the Noble Enterprise"
Approach to Peak
Performance

Developer of
"Human Energy Economics" and "Human Energy Capital" to create and maximize organizational
human energy capital

Author of the breakthrough book NOBLE ENTERPRISE

Co-author of this best-selling book
"Powerful, perceptive, practical advice from some of the best business minds today."
- Ken Blanchard,
co-author of The One Minute Manager