RHR International LLP

RHR International LLP, headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, is a firm of management psychologists and consultants who work closely with senior level management, especially the C-suite, for the purpose of accelerating individual, team and business performance. The firm’s focus in on five key areas of client need: Executive Selection and Integration, Accelerated Executive Effectiveness, Senior Team Effectiveness, Management Due Diligence and CEO Succession. According to the company, it differentiates itself from the competition through a combination of top management focus, psychologists’ perspective and the high-level business acumen of its consultants. RHR International has offices in Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States.
Many FORTUNE 500 companies have come to depend on RHR International as a trusted advisor. Ajay Banga, president and CEO of MasterCard, said, “MasterCard has formed a valuable partnership with RHR…their insights and expertise have been essential in achieving our goals through an aligned development and coaching experience for our executive team.” Other notable clients include, ARAMARK, Campbell’s, Gillette, McCormick, Pacific Life, and Reckitt Benckiser.
As acknowledged industry experts, the firm’s consultants are in demand as speakers and are frequently quoted in publications such as Chief Executive magazine,
the HBR Blog Network ,
The Wall Street Journal ,
Boardmember.com ,
CNN Money ,
Forbes , and FORTUNE Magazine .
Books written by RHR International consultants include "Big Change at Best Buy" and the best-seller "The Intangibles of Leadership".
Company history
In the 1930’s, management engineering firm Stevenson, Jordan & Harrison assembled a staff of experts on business organization. The work included drawing charts with boxes for every job. The company hired Dr. Perry Rohrer, at the time the lone psychologist for the Cook County Juvenile Court in Chicago, to assign names to the boxes.
At the time, most personnel evaluation work was done with psychometrics, using tests designed during World War I to identify the personal traits or qualities of an individual. At the opposite end were clinicians, whose developments, prompted by Freud and Adler, emphasized prolonged analyses of the psyche. Dr. Rohrer had the inspiration that clinical insights plus psychometric data would predict behavior with more accuracy. By bridging the two strong psychological trends, the foundation for modern personnel evaluation was created.
SJ&H soon had to add personnel to serve the large number of clients that wanted to try this new method of behavior assessment. These included professionals who later became founding partners of RHR International: Charles Flory, Fran Hibler, Elliott Janney and Fred Replogle.
As World War II wound down, the colleagues agreed to go out on their own and launched their new enterprise on September 15, 1945. Since using the names of all five founders proved awkward, the partnership was named after the three partners who worked in the Chicago office: Rohrer, Hibler and Replogle. As the firm became global with offices in Canada and London, the name evolved to its present version of RHR International. The original partnership became a private corporation in 1973.

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