Autor/-in: Barbara Perry and Harry Hutson

Barbara Perry, Ph. D. , is a cultural anthropologist who has advised the tribes we call organizations for 50 years. Her work, rooted in the intersection of culture, organizational learning, and hope, has been applied to a wide variety of organizational challenges from innovation to large scale systemic transformation. As a teacher, her goal is to stimulate growth in systems and individuals by designing processes that honor and integrate individual voice with collective knowledge and aligned action, to create resilient organizations capable of thriving in chaotic and complex times. Her previous writing includes articles on using team ethnography to uncover customer needs, the start-up of a high-performance work system, organizational learning, and the book, Putting Hope to Work: Five Principles to Activate your Organization's Most Powerful Resource.