Dr. Timothy Butler is Senior Fellow of Business Administration and Director of Career Development Programs at the Harvard Business School. He has worked as a psychologist, psychotherapist, and career counselor for over twenty-five years. He is also a principal and co-founder of Peregrine Partners, a consulting company in Brookline, Massachusetts that focuses on career development, life transition counseling, and using career development for competitive advantage within organizations.

For over twenty years, Dr. Butler's research has explored the relationship between personality structure and finding and sustaining meaningful careers. In his research and consulting work, Dr. Butler has interviewed thousands of business professionals from a wide range of industries and functions. He is the co-author of three business career assessment instruments (the Business Career Interest Inventory, the Management and Professional Rewards Profile and the Management and Professional Abilities Profiles) and his psychological testing database now contains profiling on over 170,000 individuals from 84 countries.

Together with Dr. James Waldroop, Dr. Butler developed the Internet-based interactive career assessment program CareerLeader™ (www.careerleader.com) that is currently used by over 300 MBA programs and corporations around the world. He has worked with a wide range of organizations and with business professionals from both the manufacturing and service sectors, from Fortune 500 corporations to smaller high-growth firms. Dr. Butler's latest book is Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New Paths (Harvard Business School Press, 2007) He has co-authored with James Waldroop two other books, Discovering Your Career in Business (Basic Books, 1997) and The Twelve Bad Habits that Hold Good People Back (Currency Doubleday, 2001). His articles in the business press (with James Waldroop) include "The Executive as Coach", "Managing Away Bad Habits", "Job Sculpting: The Art of Retaining Your Best People", and "Understanding 'People' People" (all in the Harvard Business Review).

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