Barry Oshry

Barry Oshry is a pioneer in the field of human systems thinking. His life’s work has been to empower individuals and organizations by transforming system-blindness into system-sight. The educational programs he has developed include The Power Lab, the Organization Workshop on Creating Partnership, and the When Cultures Meet Workshop.In 1975 he and his wife and partner, Karen Ellis Oshry, founded Power+Systems, Inc. whose worldwide network of trainers continues the work of empowering individuals and organizations by transforming system-blindness into system-sight. They retired from Power+Systems in 2018.
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In 2013 he launched The Worldwide Week of Partnership, during which Power+Systems trainers across the globe conduct pro bono partnership events for educational, charitable, advocacy, and service organizations in their local communities. In 2015 he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the International Organization Development Network.Barry is the author of The Systems Letter, Seeing Systems, Leading Systems, In the Middle, The Possibilities of Organization, and Context, Context, Context. He is also a playwright whose stage productions include “What a Way to Make a Living”, “Hierarchy”, “Power Play”, and “Peace”.