Tad Waddington

Tad Waddington

Tad Waddington, Ph.D. (文达德) is a business leader and author. He is the CEO of Lasting Contribution®, LLC,[1] and a Global Senior Advisor to the Asia-Pacific CEO Association Worldwide.[2] He won the 2008 International Business Award (Stevie Awards) for Best Human Resources Executive of the Year [3] and was awarded the 2009 World Human Resources Development Congress HR Leadership award.[4] He is also a multi-published author.

Early life and education

Paddington received his BA in Psychology and Chinese from Arizona State University where he graduated summa cum laude with a 4.0 GPA; he was inducted into the academic honor society Phi Beta Kappa Society,[5] and won the Moeur award, ASU's highest academic honor. He also studied at the Beijing Foreign Language Institute and the International Chinese Language Program (ICLP, formerly known as the Inter-University Program). He received an MA from the University of Chicago's Divinity School in 1990 and a PhD from the Department of Education's Measurement, Evaluation, and Statistical Analysis program at the University of Chicago under Larry Hedges.[6] He is also a graduate of the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business' Chicago Management Institute.

Business works

Positions

Waddington was with Accenture from 1997 to 2012. He is a former Gallup Organization Research Director. As a writer at English Digest (Taipei, Taiwan), he published over 300 articles). Waddington is a former translator and interpreter (Chinese/English).

Return on Learning

While Director of Performance Measurement at Accenture,[7] Waddington was co-author of Return on Learning: Training for High Performance at Accenture (Agate, 2007).[8] The book tells how Accenture's training organization revitalized training and proved its value. To prove the value of training, Waddington performed an in-depth statistical analysis of detailed records on the 261,000 people who have ever worked for the company. These records include information such as cost rates, bill rates, total time with the organization, and promotion date. Accenture factored out the effects of personnel level, experience, inflation, and business cycles.

The analysis showed that employees who take more training (top 50% relative to bottom 50%):[9]

  • are 17 percent more chargeable
  • have 20 percent higher bill rates (due to promotions)
  • stay with the company 14 percent longer.

These combined benefits yielded a net return on the investment of training of 3.53. For every dollar Accenture invested in training, there is a return of $3.53 in net benefits, after costs are recovered.

Waddington is the owner of US Patent #8244576, "Calculating the benefit of an investment in training".[10]

Lasting Contribution

Waddington is the author of Lasting Contribution: How to Think, Plan, and Act to Accomplish Meaningful Work.[1] This self-help business book was published by Agate in 2008.

Recognition

Lasting Contribution has won the following awards:

Kirkus Reviews described Lasting Contribution as:[17]

A self-help guide that assembles scholarly and scientific material to illustrate why things happen, why people act and how those people can plan actions that make a difference. Unlike the average motivational guru who seems to have read a single book-the one he or she has just written-Waddington has read them all, so readers will learn what ancient thinkers, religious leaders, modern scientists and rival motivational guides teach about human behavior.... This thin volume contains wisdom, scientific facts and insights from great figures, all in the service of planning a meaningful future. A thought-provoking work that bears rereading.

Waddington's work on measuring return on investment in training, featured in Return on Learning, won the following awards:

References

  1. 1 2 "Lasting Contribution: How to Think, Plan, and Act to Accomplish Meaningful Work". Lasting Contribution. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  2. ↑ "World HRD Congress 2009". Asia Pacific HRM Conference. Asia Pacific HRM Conference. Archived from the original on 30 May 2010.
  3. ↑ "2008 Honorees". The International Business Awards. Stevie Awards, Inc. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  4. ↑ "AWARD WINNERS 2008- 09". Global HR Excellence Awards. World HRD Congress. Archived from the original on 6 April 2010.
  5. ↑ "KEYNOTES!". Phi Beta Kappa Association of the Chicagoland Area (PBKACA). Archived from the original on 27 July 2011.
  6. ↑ Hedges, Larry V.; Waddington, Tad (Autumn 1993). "From Evidence to Knowledge to Policy: Research Synthesis for Policy Formation". Review of Educational Research. American Educational Research Association. 63 (3): 345–352. doi:10.3102/00346543063003345. JSTOR 1170553.
  7. ↑ "Running Training Like a Business: Determining the Return on Investment of Your Learning Programs". Research & Insights. Accenture. Archived from the original on 27 January 2008.
  8. ↑ "Return on Learning: Training for High Performance at Accenture, Paperback – December 30, 2008". Amazon. Amazon.com, Inc. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  9. ↑ Waddington, Tad (December 2006), "Return on Learning, Part 3: Measuring the Return on Investment in Training", Outlook Point of View (2), archived from the original on 24 February 2007
  10. ↑ United States Patent #8,244,576 - Waddington - August 14, 2012 - Calculating the benefit of an investment in training, United States Patent and Trade Office, August 14, 2012
  11. ↑ "Best Books - 2007 Awards". USABookNews.com. American Book Fest. October 2007. Archived from the original on 1 August 2008.
  12. 1 2 "Announcing the Results of the First Annual Axiom Business Book Awards". Independent Publisher. Jenkins Group, Inc.
  13. ↑ "2008 Eric Hoffer Awards Announced" (Press release). United States: Eric Hoffer Award. 5 April 2014. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  14. ↑ "NABE 2008: Pinnacle Book Achievement AWARD WINNERS". Pinnacle Book Achievement Award. North American Bookdealers Exchange. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  15. ↑ "WINNERS & FINALISTS OF THE 2010 AWARDS!". The National Indie Excellence Book Awards. Smarketing LLC. 2008. Archived from the original on 10 December 2010.
  16. ↑ "Lasting Contribution: How to Think, Plan, and Act to Accomplish Meaningful Work by Tad Waddington". Dan Poynter's Global Ebook Awards. Global Ebook Awards. 8 May 2012. Retrieved 14 August 2017.
  17. ↑ "Waddington, Tad - LASTING CONTRIBUTION: How to Think, Plan, and Act to Accomplish Meaningful Work" (PDF). Kirkus Discoveries. Nielsen Business Media. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 July 2011.
  18. ↑ "MasterCard Named Best Overall Corporate University; Corporate University Xchange 11th Annual Awards for Excellence and Innovation Presented at Gala". CorpU. Corporate University Xchange. 2 March 2010. Archived from the original on 22 June 2012.
  19. ↑ Whitney, Kellye (1 December 2004). "Achieving Impact: Silver Award". ChiefLearningOfficer. Chief Learning Officer – CLO Media.
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