Dr. Hope Hills is the founder and president of the Circle Consulting Group, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in enhancing organizational performance and productivity.  With over 13 years of experience as a leadership and OD consultant, 10 years as a graduate faculty member in Counseling Psychology and Business Programs, and 10 years leading various organizations, she brings a breadth and depth of experience to her work with leaders.

Throughout her 18 years as a psychologist, Hope has focused her research, writing,
teaching, therapy, consulting and coaching energies on applying solid psychological theory to real life issues.  Her extensive work researching and utilizing the Interpersonal Circle has created a solid, actionable model that she uses to help individuals, teams, organizations, families and groups become more effective. Her years of both practicing and teaching therapy support her extraordinary track record as an executive coach.  She has designed a Life Line Process that has invariably helped leaders discover the life experiences and core beliefs that are holding them back from getting the results they want. She was invited to write a chapter on counseling men in business that appeared in a book on Counseling with men.

Her work with Executive and Senior Teams has resulted in creating highly functioning teams that outperformed expectations.  Members of these teams consistently say: “you create a safe environment to talk about very difficult issues”.  When asked for feedback after a two day team retreat, a Senior VP of a retail banking group who hates meetings said: “My negative feedback is that this retreat should have been three days. We have come so far.” After moving the distribution center in two days, the Senior Leader said: “We would not have been able to have accomplished this had we not worked with you.” The CEO of a bank in New York said: “Previously consultants had helped design "fixes" but no one had ever looked at how to carry out new plans from a human systems perspective. You were very important in getting the ideas across that "team triumphs" went a lot further and counted for a lot more than departmental and individual victories.”

She has designed and implemented very successful succession planning and resultant high potential development processes. Her design for high potential development focuses on creating a “new learning environment” around the individual by involving direct reports, peers and supervisors.

Hope is also an accomplished trainer and speaker.  She has been invited by numerous organizations to present workshops and speak on the Interpersonal Circle, Psychologists as Consultants, Managing Change, and Diversity in the Workplace. 

She is involved in her community, working with the Public Allies as a trainer and consultant, and the Triangle Organizational Development Network as a board member.  She and her husband, a musician, also work with a Chamber Music Camp for adults each summer in Northern Michigan. She gets to play her ‘cello and he coaches.