Fred Harburg
Advisory Board Member, Performance Coach, and
Keynote speaker
Fred Harburg is an Advisory Board member and keynote speaker for Human Performance
Institute. He is a respected consultant, writer, and speaker in the disciplines of leadership, strategy,
and performance coaching.
Fred graduated from the US Air Force Academy and served as an Air Force officer and pilot.
He flew a variety of jet aircraft in both domestic and international missions some of which were
in direct support of the White House. He has a compelling personal history in highly demanding
athletic, military, and corporate settings. His wealth of successful experience enables him to
credibly declare, “Organizations that intelligently equip their leaders to fully engage themselves
and their people consistently outperform those that do not!”
Fred has lived in the US and abroad and has served in several significant international business
leadership roles. He has been both an internal and external organizational architect for Fortune
100 companies including IBM, General Motors, Disney, AT&T, and Fidelity Investments. He
served as the Chief Learning Officer and President of Motorola University which at its peak had
over 1,000 faculty and staff and operated from more than 20 campuses around the world. His
achievements at Motorola University were profiled in the November 2002 issue of Chief Learning
Officer Magazine.
His academic degrees include a Bachelor of Science from the U.S. Air Force Academy and an MBA from UCLA. He served as a member of the Center for Effective Organizations Advisory Board at the Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California; is a member of the Chief Learning Officer Magazine Editorial Advisory Board, a publication for which he writes a bimonthly column on strategy; is an advisory board member for the Tufts University Institute for Global Leadership; a Senior Fellow for The Trinity Forum; a guest lecturer at the MIT Sloan School of Management; and Director of PathNorth, a non-profi t created for the purpose of encouraging principal business founders, owners, and chief executive officers to broaden their definition of success. He has been interviewed by The Fox News Network on a range of issues dealing with effective leadership in challenging situations.