| Code | DS/UK/P3972 |
| Dates | 1923-2014 |
| Person Name | Lamb; Warren D (1923-2014) |
| Surname | Lamb |
| Forenames | Warren D |
| Activity | British management consultant who trained with Rudolf Laban in the 1940s in his work in industry. Lamb pioneered Action Profiling, later known as Movement Pattern Analysis. |
| Gender | Male |
| Other Forms Of Name | Lamb; W D |
| Dates and Places | Birth: Wallasey, Merseyside (28 April 1923) Death: Claremont, California (21 January 2014) |
| History | Warren Lamb, the son of Rose (nee Wilkinson) and David Lamb, was born in Wallasey in 1923 and later educated at Wallasey Grammar School. He left school aged 16 to join Lloyds Bank. In 1941 he enlisted in the Royal Navy but returned to banking following active service during World War II. Warren Lamb met Rudolf Laban in 1946 and he was impressed by his system of notation and its possibilities for use in behavioural analysis. Warren Lamb left Lloyds Bank and enrolled at the Art of Movement Studio in Manchester, where he trained under Lisa Ullmann between 1947 and 1950, whilst working closely with Rudolf Laban and F C Lawrence to develop assessment techniques for use in career selection and planning, which was initially known as Laban-Lawrence Industrial Rhythm. In 1950 Warren Lamb joined F C Lawrence's Company Paton Lawrence and Company. He also worked professionally as a dancer, and was a member of the British Dance Theatre Company between 1950 and 1952. He also worked as the company Business Manager.
In 1952 Warren Lamb left Paton Lawrence and Company and opened his own consultancy company, Warren Lamb Associates. His work was initially called Action Profiling but is now known as Movement Pattern Analysis. His work broke down the decision-making process into three staged - Attending, Intending and Committing. Working with Pamela Ramsden, Lamb continued the development and application of the Action Profile, which is based on Effort-Shape principles, and the distinction of 'Gesture' from 'Posture behaviour. Warren Lamb's consulting practice grew, and he and his colleagues provided individual assessments and top team planning to clients such as Trebor, Eversheds, Lansing Bagnall, Dunlop, Albany International and General Electric Company. While most of his professional activity was in the industrial and commercial field, Warren Lamb also worked with sculptors, artists, musicians, actors, teachers, therapists and psychiatrists. He developed and refined the Movement Pattern Analysis approach, pioneering its application to management work worldwide. In 1982 Warren Lamb founded Action Profilers International. He resigned in 1992 due to a dispute over the definition of the term 'polarities'.
Warren Lamb's contributions to the field of movement were rcognised internationally, as he received two 'Lifetime Achivement' awards, one from Motus Humanus in 1995, and the other from the International Congress on Movement Analysis in Education, Therapy and Science in 2010.
Lamb taught in various university and school settings. Among his former pupils are Irmgard Bartenieff and Judith Kestenberg. His lengthy collaborations with Kestenberg influenced Laban Movement Analysis training in the United States, and led to the development of the Kestenberg Movement Profile. He taught Effort/Shape to Irmgard Bartenieff and helped her to establish the Effort/Shape Department of the Dance Notation Bureau in New York which later became the Laban Institute of Movement Studies.
Warren Lamb published the books 'A Kinaesthetic Approach to Piano Technique' with Ronald Meachen (1962-1962), 'Posture and Gesture' (1965), 'Management Behaviour' with David Turner (1969), 'Body Code' with Elizabeth Watson (1979), and 'A Frameworkd for Understanding Movement: My Seven Creative Concepts' (2012), along with a number of unpublished manuscripts and journal articles. |
| Source | Moore, Carol-Lynne. Movement and Making Decisions: The Body-Mind Connection in the Workplace. New York: Rosen, 2005. |
| RefNo | Title | Date |
| AW/B/2043 | Posture and Gesture: An Introduction to the Study of Physical Behaviour |
| L/E/75/22 | Industrial Rhythm \ Notes on Ex's Report | 6 June 1952 |
| L/E/38/43 | Industrial Rhythm \ Your Movements Are Revealing | n.d. |
| L/E/46/17 | Assessments, Reports, Records \ Reports from Warren Lamb \ Individual Movement Therapy | 1953 |
| L/E/66/42 | Industrial Rhythm \ Memorandum on the use of Personal Effort Assessments by W.D. Lamb | 16 August 1951 |
| L/E/46/18 | Assessments, Reports, Records \ Reports from Warren Lamb \ Individual Movement Therapy | 18 June 1954 |
| L/E/65/74 | Industrial Rhythm \ Comparison of Assessments made by Mr Airey and Mr Lamb of the Art of Movement Studio | 7 June 1950 |
| L/E/65/77 | Industrial Rhythm \ Summary of W.D. Lamb's Lecture 'Selection and Training Technique' Given on 9th March 1951 | 1951 |
| L/E/66/41 | Industrial Rhythm \ Movement Observation \ Draft Copy | 1949 |
| XZA/599 | Kaleidoscope Feature \ Dancing With Your Eyebrow \ Profile of Rudolf Laban | 15 November 1997 |
| AW/B/2042 | Body Code: The Meaning in Movement |
| XZB/1259 | Posture and Gesture \ Introduction to the Study of Physical Behaviour, An |
| BMJ/B/1219 | Posture and Gesture \ An Introduction to the Study of Physical Behaviour |
| XZK/C2049/3423 | Laban Art of Movement Guild News Sheet | October 1952 |
| XZK/C2049/3424 | Laban Art of Movement Guild News Sheet | March 1953 |
| XZL/B/1933 | Beyond Dance: Laban's Legacy of Movement Analysis |
| XZD/56 | Decision Making and Movement Pattern Analysis | 2006 |
| XZL/B/2454 | Movement and Making Decisions: The Body-Mind Connection in the Workplace |
| L/E/46/19 | Assessments, Reports, Records \ Reports from Warren Lamb \ Yardstick for Personality, A | 1953 |
| XZB/397 | Body Code \ The meaning of movement |
| L/E/66/44 | Industrial Rhythm \ Journal of Industrial Engineering, The \ News Selection Assessment Technique, A | 1952 |
| L/E/74/15 | Industrial Rhythm \ Simpson & Godlee Limited \ Report on Candidates ... | 28 April 1949 |
| L/E/66/46 | Industrial Rhythm \ Correspondence between Lisa Ullmann and Warren Lamb | 11/07/1983-18/08/1983 |
| L/E/74/2 | Industrial Rhythm \ Pilkington's Tiles Ltd. \ Movement observations, manuscripts and reports | 1948 |
| AW/E/5/14 | Private Sessions Laban, W.Lamb, G Stephenson | 1954-1960 |
| LU/E/12/7 | Lectures \ Drama Courses \ 1943-1949 | 1943-1949 |
| LU/E/17/2 | Work of Former Students \ Warren Lamb | n.d. |
| L/E/63/15 | Industrial Rhythm \ Assessments \ Report of Course in 'Movement' | 6 July 1954 |
| L/E/66/45 | Industrial Rhythm \ Dance Magazine \ Movement Analysis Becomes a Tool of Industry | 1952 |
| XZK/C2049/3431 | Laban Art of Movement Guild Magazine | March 1957 |
| WL | Warren Lamb Collection | 1943-2013 |
| L/E/46/16 | Assessments, Reports, Records \ Reports from Warren Lamb \ Research into Movement Therapy | 1954 |
| L/F/3/21 | Portraits \ Laban Lawrence Industrial Rhythm \ Personal Effort Assessment, left C.D. Ellis, right Warren Lamb | 1952 |
| L/B/57 | Posture and Gesture \ An introduction to the study of physical behaviour |
| L/E/50/73 | Letters \ Note from Warren Lamb quoting Aldous Huxley | n.d. |
| L/E/66/11 | Industrial Rhythm \ Lyons | n.d. |
| L/E/75/34 | Industrial Rhythm \ Pilkington's Tiles Ltd \ Training Scheme for Pilkington's | n.d. |
| L/E/62/26 | Industrial Rhythm \ Assessments \ Comparison of LLEA by Lamb and Armistead | n.d. |
| L/E/62/25 | Industrial Rhythm \ Assessments \ Reply to Laban-Lawrence Notes | n.d. |
| L/E/68/44 | Biographical Information \ Rudolf Laban \ Biographies of Rudolf Laban, Irmgard Bartenieff, Sylvia Bodmer, Martin Gleisner, Warren Lamb and Lisa Ullmann | n.d. |
| L/E/38/41 | Industrial Rhythm \ Report of the Discussion between Mr Warren Lamb and Mr John Armistead about the Comparative Assessments of Harvey | n.d. |
| L/E/46 | Assessments, Reports, Records (Industrial Rhythm) \ Files in Box 46 | 1940s-1950s |
| L/E/75/38 | Industrial Rhythm \ Pilkington's Tiles Ltd \ Lisa Ullmann's Correspondence | 30 March 1948-19 July 1948 |
| L/E/62/56 | Industrial Rhythm \ Assessments \ Report on Candidates from Simpson and Godlee Limited | 28 April 1949 |
| L/E/66/40 | Industrial Rhythm \ Movement Observation | 1950 |
| L/E/75/32 | Industrial Rhythm \ Correspondence between Warren Lamb, Laban, Lisa Ullmann and F.C. Lawrence | 23 August 1950-11 March 1957 |
| L/E/38/30 | Industrial Rhythm \ Youth Advice Bureau \ Correspondence | 1951-1959 |
| L/E/62/61 | Industrial Rhythm \ Assessments \ Correspondence between Paton Lawrence Management Training Ltd. and the Ministry of Labour | 13 March 1951-19 April 1951 |
| L/E/75/20 | Industrial Rhythm \ American Institute of Industrial Engineers | 1952-1953 |
| L/E/33/56 | Industrial Rhythm \ L. L. Selection and Training | 13 February 1952 |
| L/E/64/61 | Industrial Rhythm \ Periodical Articles | 1954-1981 |
| L/E/78/23 | Industrial Rhythm \ Wives on Trial for their Husbands' Jobs | 8 February 1958 |
| L/E/41/50 | Articles about Laban \ New Era, The \ Special Issue on Rudolf Laban | 1959 |
| L/E/62/19 | Industrial Rhythm \ Assessments \ Personal Effort Assessment and Movement Training for Personal Efficiency | [c1951] |
| MH/5/3 | 1996 Understanding Movement Patterns - Warren Lamb Advanced Seminar | 1996 |
| MH/REF/1 | 'Lamb Legacy Lives!' Motus Humanus Advanced Seminar Programme | 23 May 2015 |
| MH/4/2 | 1994 Movement Pattern Analysis Focus Group | 1994 |
| MH/4/3 | 1995 Roundtable on Professional Issues | 8 June 1995 |
| MH/7/3 | Grant to Warren Lamb | 2004 |
| XZK/C2049/2238 | Laban Art of Movement Guild Magazine | May 1964 |
| MH/3/17 | 2000 'Teaching Laban Movement Analysis and Bartenieff Fundamentals' Event | 11 June 2000 |