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Frank
J. Barrett, Ph.D.
Frank
J. Barrett, PhD is Associate Professor of
Systems Management at the Naval Postgraduate
School in Monterey, California. He received
his BA in Government and International Relations
from the University of Notre Dame, his MA
in English from the University of Notre
Dame, and his PhD in Organizational Behavior
from Case Western Reserve University. He
has also served on the faculty of The Katholieke
University of Leuven in Belgium, Penn State
University Behrend College, Case Western
Reserve University, and Benedictine University.
He
served as Director of Budgetary Analysis
for the Cuyahoga County Auditor and taught
English at Cuyahoga Community College in
Cleveland, Ohio. He has served on the faculty
at Penn State University Behrend College,
Case Western Reserve University, and Illinois
Benedictine College where he taught Management,
Organizational Behavior, Organizational
Theory, Group Dynamics and Leadership, Organizational
Design, Organizational Development, and
Organizational Change.
Dr.
Barrett has been involved in a number of
research projects. As a member of SIGMA
(Social Innovations in Global Management)
at Case Western Reserve University, he has
traveled extensively in the former Soviet
Union studying social transformation and
social innovation.
Dr.
Barrett has consulted to various organizations
including the US Navy, Ford Motor Manufacturing
Division, Johnson & Johnson, Bell South,
Granite Construction, GlaxxoWelcom, General
Electric, British Petroleum, the Council
of Great Lakes Governors, Omni Hotels, The
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and University
Hospitals of Cleveland.
He
has written and lectured widely on social
constructionism, appreciative inquiry, organizational
change, jazz improvisation and organizational
learning. He has published articles on metaphor,
masculinity, improvisation, organizational
change and organizational development in
the Journal of Applied Behavioral Science;
Human Relations; Organization
Science , and Organizational Dynamics
as well as numerous book chapters.
He wrote "Generative Metaphor Intervention:
A New Approach to Intergroup Conflict" (with
D. Cooperrider) which won the award for
best paper from the Organizational Development
Division of the Academy of Management in
1988. He is co-editor of Appreciative
Inquiry and Organizational Transformation
(Vermont: Greenwood Books, 2001).
Dr.
Barrett is also an active jazz pianist.
In addition to leading his own trios and
quartets, he has traveled extensively in
the United States, England, and Mexico with
the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra.
Ronald
E. Fry, Ph.D.
Professor
Ronald E. Fry joined the faculty of the
Department of Organizational Behavior, Weatherhead
School of Management, Case Western Reserve
University in August, 1978 and was tenured
in 1984. Before coming to CWRU he received
a BS in Engineering at University of California
at Los Angeles (1969), and an SM in Management
from the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management
at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
(1971) where he also received a Ph.D. degree
in Organizational Psychology (1978). While
at CWRU he has served as Director of the
Master's of Science in Organizational Development
and Analysis (MSODA) program and has received
the University Award for Outstanding Teacher
in the Professional Schools. For the past
11 years he has served as Faculty Director
of the Weatherhead School's Executive MBA
Program, consistently ranked by Business
Week , US News and World Reports,
and Financial Times as one
of premier EMBA Programs in the world.
Professor
Fry has been involved in research and consulting
with industrial, service and educational
organizations in the areas of human resource
development and organizational development
for the past twenty-five years. Major field
work has involved firms including Ford,
General Electric, Northern Telecom, KeyCorp,
Roadway Express, Square D, City of Cleveland,
Keithley Instruments, the Metropolitan Water
District of So. California, and most currently,
the United States Navy. He has collaborated
in developing a widely used team development
program, Task Oriented Team Development
, and conducts internationally publicized
seminars on the same. With colleagues David
Cooperrider and Suresh Srivastva, Ron has
pioneered the theory and practice of Appreciative
Inquiry over the past ten years. He has
designed and led a Certificate Program in
Organization Capacity Building and Appreciative
Leadership for over 150 leaders of Non-Governmental
social change Organizations worldwide and
their partnering, US based Private Voluntary
Organizations.
Professor
Fry has published widely in the area of
Organization Development, Team Building,
Change Management, Appreciative Inquiry,
and the role and behavior of the CEO. His
current research interests lie in the study
of global organization and management for
social change, the exploration of continuity
as a key to organizational health and the
application of appreciative inquiry to build
organizational capacity. Among his most
recent publications are Appreciative
Inquiry and Organizational Transformation
, co-edited with Frank Barrett, Jane
Seiling and Diana Whitney (Quorum: 2001),
and Executive and Organizational
Continuity: Managing the Paradoxes of Stability
and Change (Jossey-Bass), a volume
co-edited with Suresh Srivastva.
Professor
Fry is a frequent visiting lecturer to specialized
OD programs at Benedictine University and
McGill University and is an adjunct faculty
member of the New Zealand Institute of Management
where he conducts executive development
programs annually. He has also served as
a visiting faculty to the Katholieke University
in Leuven, Belgium and to the Administrative
Staff College of India. For more information,
visit Dr. Fry's faculty
profile on the CWRU website.
David
Bright
David
Bright is a Doctoral Candidate in Organizational
Behavior at the Case Weatherhead School
of Management, located in Cleveland, Ohio.
He previously attended Brigham Young University
where he received the degrees of B.S. in
Accounting (1996), M.A. in International
Area Studies (1999), and Master of Organizational
Behavior (1999). His work focuses on large-scale
organizational change, and in his research
he explores the factors that support empowered,
participative change. During the past ten
years, he has conducted research and consulting
with several organizations including INTEL,
the U.S. Navy and Roadway International.
Edward
H. Powley
Edward
H. Powley (Ned) is a doctoral candidate
in the Department of Organizational Behavior
at the Weatherhead School of Management
at Case Western Reserve University. He has
worked with the U.S. Navy, Roadway Express,
the Society for Organizational Learning's
Sustainability Consortium, and Weatherhead's
Business as an Agent of World Benefit project.
His research interests include Appreciative
Inquiry, sustainable organizational change,
and myth and ritual in change. Prior to
studying at Case Western, Edward worked
for the World Bank and conducted best practices
research at the Corporate Executive Board
in Washington, DC. He received his master's
degree from George Washington University
in Organizational Management.
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