Court Chilton joins Dialogue Advisory Board

I’m very pleased to have a friend and mentor join the Dialogue Advisory Board. Please welcome Court Chilton from Court Chilton & Associates.

Court’s company specializes in helping people-intensive businesses boost productivity.  His company, very simply, helps delivers business results through people.

That’s a bit of what I do here at Dialogue. Social Media delivers business results through people as well, just through different channels. So, when I met with Court a few months ago, I managed to convince him of that same message, and to join the Board.

I think (I hope!) it was an easy answer for Court. We’ve been family friends for years, and I look forward to turning a personal relationship into a mutually beneficial professional relationship for both of us.

So, thank you Court, and welcome to Dialogue.

Court Chilton, Court Chilton and Associates
Court has helped large organizations produce business results from learning, coaching, and enterprise-wide change efforts for the last 20 years.  His clients have included GE Capital; KPMG; Goldman Sachs; Deloitte; Fidelity; Genzyme; Shire Pharmaceutical; TJX, Home Depot, Clifford Chance; Orrick; and McDermott, Will & Emery.

Court has worked internationally on a wide variety of business-building initiatives: creating “branded client experiences;” relationship management and service improvement; sales training and leadership development; executive education and coaching; implementing Six Sigma; practice management, and re-engineering the learning function.  In the course of these initiatives, he has also developed computer simulations, on-line 360 feedback, and in-process e-learning.  He is an effective facilitator and coach for senior management teams.

Prior to working as an independent consultant, Court was a senior vice president of The Forum Corporation, based in New York and Boston.  In the course of 14 years at Forum, he was responsible for the firm’s core leadership, teaming, and total quality offerings.  He also managed the $20M+ mid-Atlantic region for the firm and several strategic client relationships.

Court donates part of his time coaching MBA candidates at Northeastern University and consulting to educational institutions such as Cambridge College (higher education for those who have been denied or lacked access to it) and Mitchell College (a 4 year private college with a special expertise in helping kids with learning disabilities). He also collaborates with the District Management Council, an organization devoted to transferring for-profit management practices to public school systems.

Court received a B.A., magna cum laude with High Honors from Middlebury College in 1978, and an M.B.A. from Dartmouth’s Amos Tuck School in 1986.  Between college and graduate school he worked in book and magazine publishing in a variety of marketing roles.   He lives outside Boston with his family.  He has served on his town’s Finance Committee and currently serves on the town’s School Committee.

Hometown: Grew up in Wilmington, DE, Greenwich, CT, and Atlanta GA with stops overseas (Argentina and Switzerland).  Currently live in Weston, MA.

My Favorite Book/Recommend Reading: Mountains Beyond Mountains, Three Cups of Tea, anything about people making change happen in alien environments

How I Relax: Playing racket sports, running, cycling, watching my daughters play soccer, basketball, and lacrosse

Words to Live by/Words of Wisdom: Guts are rewarded–go for it!