Boston Ma. USA

Barry Oshry is a distinguished educator and a pioneer in the field of human systems thinking. His research, writing and teaching have focused on the human systems dynamics arising when people are in top, middle, bottom, and customer relationships with one another. He's been exploring with special interest the issue of "middles" in organizations, and he's written extensively on the subject. His research has also led him to investigate the dynamics at play when dominant cultures interact with “other” cultures.

He is the developer of the Power Lab, a weeklong total immersion leadership development experience, the Organization Workshop on Creating Partnership, and When Cultures Meet. He is the author of Seeing Systems, Leading Systems, and In The Middle.

Lutsen, MN, USA

I am passionate about each of us showing up as the best of ourselves in all aspects of our lives. Having worked in leadership development for over 30 years, I realize we cannot be any better leaders than we are as people. I believe the way to grow our power, impact and joy is through awareness. I am committed to increasing the quality and quantity we each bring into our days. In addition to offering the Organization workshop (and complementary programs), I host personal retreats on the North Shore of Lake Superior as well as offering leadership development programs (many focused on women leaders). I also created a weekly radio show entitled “The Best of Ourselves” to help us live more intentionally.

London, UK

My work, and my company, are dedicated to finding effective and human ways to make organisations, across the world and across sectors (but particularly UK public services) meet their customers' needs well and efficiently. I try to bring together organisational, process, human, and systems thinking - which of course is why I'm so attracted to the Power+Systems work. I love to think about and challenge the possibilities for organisations - and put them into practice.

Dallas, TX, USA

Marsha Clark’s passion is supporting others in their personal and professional development. She is currently delivering a series of offerings to enable women to explore, discover and optimize their potential. One of the offerings, a 12-month program called the Power of Self, combines experiential learning and individual coaching, and provides an opportunity for women to gain greater personal clarity and a strategic framework for making more deliberate choices in all dimensions of their lives. Marsha has also co-authored a book with Dottie Gandy entitled Choose! The Role That Choice Plays in Shaping Women's Lives (Brown Books 2004) and has been featured in several other publications regarding accomplished women.

Prior to starting her own business in 2000, Marsha was a Corporate Vice President for EDS. In the last 14 years Marsha has worked with corporate clients such as Pepsico, FritoLay, Accenture, Alcon Labs, and Cisco. She has also worked with the University of Texas at Dallas and SMU School of Business. Marsha is currently developing programs with the University of Texas at Arlington.

Marsha serves on the Board of advisers for a number of organizations including Hardy Girls Healthy Women, Metro Dallas Homeless Alliance, and The Hill School of Grapevine. Marsha has a Masters of Science in Organization Development from American University in Washington, D.C.

Phoenixvile, PA, USA

Bill brings over 40 years of experience in Human Resources, Training and Development, Management, Recruitment, Consulting and Sales to organizations looking for ways to create excellence and peak performance at all levels. A former client who said, “Bill is my business partner on human issues”, can best sum up Bill’s style and effectiveness.

Bill started his own consulting practice in 1995. He has developed and delivered training experiences for both large and small organizations, dealing with executives, managers & workers in a variety of industries. Using the Organization Workshop as a linchpin of his consulting, the focus of his work has been in: Leadership, Interviewing and Selection, Teamwork, Change Leadership, Communication, Listening, Building Trust, Valuing & Including Diversity, Performance Management, Organizational Effectiveness.

Bill has delivered learning experiences that engage and develop leaders in 10 different countries and for companies in the Fortune 100 to small regional organizations. He has worked in multiple industries including Insurance, Chemicals, Aerospace & Defense, Health Care, Heavy Manufacturing, Semi-conductors and Government Agencies.

What drives Bill is growth through learning. He loves collaborative process and is constantly seeking to create highly engaged human systems. His passion can be summed up in his motto Learn, Engage, Succeed.

Peoria, Il, USA

I have conducted more than 180 OW's over the past 25 years. I have done a variety of designs from 4 hours up to 3 days in length. I have also conducted 8 Power Labs for Microsoft leaders. I have been on staff for another 14 Cape Cod Power Labs. I have conducted 25 Merging Cultures workshops for Microsoft leaders. Finally, I have designed and developed a 3 hour "Space of Service: Effective Consulting" workshop based on Barry's material on the space of service. I worked for 10 years as Director of Org Dev for Microsoft form 1994- 2004. I also have worked, as external consultant, with Oracle, Storage Tec, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Sempra Utitlities, Memorial Health Systems and NICE Systems. My skill set, in addition to my experience with the workshops, is mentoring people to learn to do this work and also innovating designs based on the culture of the client group. Finally, I am most passionate about enabling people to see systems, see the part they play, and embrace the passion they have for owning their part of the world and making it better.

Greenwood Village, CO, USA

My background is in technology and business and I've worked for some large corporations including General Electric and EDS. In 1992, I founded a successful data management consulting firm. We quickly incorporated an organizational development component because we observed that projects are more likely to fail because of power, political and process issues than because of the technology. After attending Power Lab and becoming certified in the Organization Workshop and the Merging Cultures Workshop, the Power and Systems framework became a part of me and I couldn't shake it! The world looked different. I have co-facilitated over 100 workshops with a variety of clients in health care, financial services, high tech, higher education, federal, state and local government and non-profits. As a CEO for over 20 years, I had the unique opportunity to incorporate these system concepts into my own company as a manager, facilitator, service provider, customer and entrepreneur. As a wife and mother of 4 children, it also became a significant and positive factor in our family. I ultimately decided that I wanted to focus on sharing my experiences of this system framework so I successfully sold my company in 2010 so that I could focus on public speaking, teaching and consulting. I enjoy working with technology groups, business groups, non-profits and educators. I have done a number of keynote speeches and facilitated workshops at professional conferences.

Wolcott, CT, USA

After many years in Academia and in my own consulting practice, I earned a Ph.D. in Organizational Learning and entered Corporate America where I have been for the past twenty-two years. My responsibilities include executive coaching, debriefing 360s, facilitation, intervention work, and training in an organization of 30,000 employees.

Of the many programs I facilitate, Leading from the Middle is a definite favorite. I have seen participants gain greater insight into their own worlds and recognition of the worth and power of partnership. The Organization Workshop has created a network of hundreds of change agents within the company. That has been very personally rewarding.

I am very proud to be a member of the Steering Committee of the World Wide Week of Partnership. It is such a worthwhile initiative on so many levels. The week of October 21, 2013 will provide each of us as members of the Power and Systems family an opportunity to give of our time and talent to those who may not to be able to afford our services. We will have a larger forum to help spread understanding of human systems so needed in this troubled world. It will help us become closer partners with one another and build new and lasting partnerships.

I believe that the W3P message will spread and grow into a worldwide initiative we’ve yet to envision. What an exciting journey we are about to begin together.

Lancashire, UK

I am married to Carl and have 3 grown up daughters Louise, Alice and Eleanor. I am a Liverpool FC fan and go to home games whenever possible.

I enjoy running, yoga, cooking and travel with my family

I am passionate about developing sustainable individual and team performance within organisations. Creating space for the empowerment of individuals and teams to contribute to the possibilities of partnership and leadership. I bring experience from a wide range of areas including B2B and healthcare. I am a business development manager working for Siemens Healthcare Diagnostics. I focus on both internal and external partnership to challenge the current working and to jointly create other possibilities for healthcare provision.

Barcelone, Spain

I´m a constant learner that loves growing and sharing new tools, techniques and approaches to offer my clients the most updated perspectives in human development to face their personal and professional challenges.

I´m a PCC - Professional Certified Coach by ICF - International Coach Federation, and CPCC - Certified Professional Co-Active Coach accredited by CTI - The Coaches Training Institute. I work as Executive Coach and Trainer, and have worked with more than 7000 people from 30 countries (Europe, Asia, Africa and America). I also train new coaches in Spain as part of CTI faculty.

My background includes a Diploma in Tourism, a Diploma in Acting, a Bachelor Degree in Business Law, a Master´s Degree in Human Resources and Psychology studies.

I´m passionate about change and development processes, and I usually work with teams and individuals in a experiential learning style helping them achieve their goals, deepening in their learning and forwarding needed actions to make the learning happen and co-create the opportunity for transformation.

My clients are executives and teams from all levels in different countries, and from companies such as Iberia, Sony, KPMG, Sanofi Aventis, Hewlett Packard, Villeroy & Boch, Reale, Holmes Place, Pirelli, Roche, Hochland, Panrico, Barclays Bank, “la Caixa”, Lear, Media Markt and Axel Springer, among others

Since 2009 I founded The Coaches, Leadership & Coaching, from where we offer different solutions:

• The Organization Workshop, to accelerate the impact of leadership development and increase the impact people can have in the organization
• Leadership Programs, to deepen in personal learning and stimulate excellence, focused primarily on awareness and accountability
• Coaching, understood as a creative process of accompanying an individual or team in their development and evolution, stimulating to achieve extraordinary results
• Tools for assessment or experiential tools, to boost insights and expand new perspectives.

Auckland, New Zealand

I run BrittendenSmith ltd. a consultancy specialising in the development and strengthening of the relationships that enable organisations and individuals to be successful. We work with individuals, teams and across organisations, coaching, training and facilitating.

Our work helps you create trust-based sustainable business relationships whether you are selling, leading, providing internal services, partnering with others.

We work with individual leaders and their teams to create enhanced personal, collective and organisation - wide performance. We help leaders develop the mindset, awareness and capability to create the conditions for themselves, their people and their organisation to flourish.

We provide a systemic lens through which exec. teams can see and explore how to create the conditions for themselves and others to fully contribute to the success of their organisations. This systemic lens brings to life the unseen and unavoidable traps that top teams and their organisations fall into and offers strategies to guard against these debilitating traps. Our primary vehicle for this work is the Organisational Workshop.

BrittendenSmith ltd. was established in NZ in October 2012 having been trading in the UK since January 2006. We look forward to partnering with clients from our new base in New Zealand. Our clients in the United Kingdom come from a variety of private, public and not for profit sectors including: Alton College ( tertiary education), Anthony Collins- (Solicitors), Arup- (Engineers), Cornwall County Council, Lambeth and Southwark Social Services, LeasePlan, PricewaterhouseCoopers-(Accountants), Simmons and Simmons –(Solicitors), The Outward Bound Trust, UK Sport, VSO (Voluntary Service Overseas)

In addition to offering the Organisation Workshop, we provide the following services: Executive coaching, Business Development coaching and training, Bespoke Leadership development., Effective team development.

Taipei, Taiwan

David Chard, president of EngagingMinds, a Taipei-based leadership development consultancy, is a 35 year resident of Asia and a fluent Mandarin speaker. He has been deeply involved in training and development since 1989, when he first began conducting media spokesperson training and crisis team simulation programs for his public relations clients in the Asia-Pacific region.

David envisions creating a future filled with creative, conscious leaders who genuinely care about those they lead, and who strive to connect individuals with their natural inner drive and passion. He believes that a new generation of leaders who take a stand for partnership, who are grounded in the human dimension, authentically engaging their peers, is the key to a better world and a brighter future.

Recently, David has focused on developing the “Twelve Engaging Minds”, a comprehensive leadership development program that grounds participants in twelve distinctive lenses that are derived from the winning mindsets of the world’s greatest leaders.

In the past, David has consulted for a wide range of MNCs, including: Pfizer, Bayer, Microsoft, Unilever, Phillip Morris, Metlife, Johnson & Johnson, Lenovo, Avon, Marriott, Solvay, P&G, Sanofi, BAT, Coca-Cola, Budweiser, Novartis, New York Life

His current qualifications as a trainer / coach / facilitator include: Engaging the Future® Leadership Facilitator, Sizzling Storytelling® Trainer, Group Facilitation Methods, Open Space Facilitation, Certified NLP Practitioner, Action Learning Methods, Super Learning Methods, Certified Simulation and Gaming Designer, Certified Hypnotherapist, NLP Coaching, Ontological Coaching (Executive Coaching), Appreciative Inquiry, Veteran Media Spokesperson Trainer, Veteran Crisis Simulation designer and facilitator

David is also a certified trainer of top 3rd party training systems: The Organization Workshop from Power and Systems, Applied Strategic Thinking, CMOE, TIPS2 Performance Coaching, CMOE, The Manager’s Compass, Root Learning, Civil Treatment, ELI, Inc.

Following a long career as a communications consultant to major corporations, Chard also brings a unique skill set in managing corporate reputation, including: Corporate Messaging Development, Corporate Communication Strategy, Crisis Preparedness and Response, Corporate Social Responsibility.

British Columbia, Canada

I am President of CLS West, and an Associate Faculty Member at Royal Roads University. Clients and colleagues know me to be a passionate, dynamic and experienced facilitator of large group learning activities, conferences and systemic interventions. I both draw and give great energy to whole-systems work in the service of healthy, productive relationships and performance. As a highly achievement-motivated person, I have worked with clients across all sectors within Canada, and abroad involving groups ranging from small teams to entire organizations. I am honoured and excited to contribute to the World Wide Week of Partnership!

Philadelphia, PA, USA

In partnership with some wonderful colleagues I’ve brought the Organization Workshop to education, healthcare, environmental engineering, and non-profits. It has been an essential component of a leadership program for women in academic medicine and women in engineering offered by Drexel University. It is now part of the Friends Services for the Aging Leadership Institute. I teach a graduate course on Systems Literacy based on this work in the Organizational Development Leadership Program at Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine. Students find the concepts immediately useable in their roles as executive directors, managers, supervisors and service providers. Another area of deep interest for me is designing and facilitating large group, task-focused meetings that activate whole system thinking. For the last 30 years, I’ve partnered with leaders in organizations and communities to address strategic issues by engaging critical stakeholders in making decisions tha t are best for the system, not just individual interests. What I most appreciate about the concepts offered in Barry Oshry’s work is the power of seeing patterns. Once we see the patterns…once we see the dance…we’re better able to intervene to influence more productive outcomes, more of the time—without having to “pathologize” people.

New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

I’m passionate about creating the most meaningful and productive workplaces on the planet. What we call “the human enterprise”. We do this by transforming the way people Live their lives, Lead their businesses and Leave a legacy. We help to develop what we call “Leaders for Life” At the heart of our work is developing organisational cultures where “Everyone Leads” through a distributed leadership model.

We have worked with a variety of fast moving Consumer Goods Organisations, Financial Institutions, and Professional Service Firms.Multinational clients over the years have included such organisations as Unilever, Mars Corporation, Coca Cola, Reckitt Benckiser, Campbell Arnotts, Red Bull, Fujitsu, SAP, Alcatel Lucent, NEC, Franklin Templeton, and MAN Investments.

We have used both the “The Organisation Workshop” and “When Cultures Meet” both as stand-alone interventions and as part of longer term leadership development programmes. We find both exercises are brilliant at opening leaders minds to even more “possibilities for partnership” and collaboration across the total business. Additionally the experiential components make sure leaders get it at a “gut” level which directly impacts their leadership “mindsets” and how they can make a difference from any chair.

The human enterprise offer a range of services including: leadership coaching, leadership keynotes, team facilitation, and a variety of leadership development programs.

Doylestown, PA, USA

I provide organizations with transition advising. When it comes to successful transitions, it’s all about breaking the mold and finding ways to begin again. Barry Oshry’s power and partnership work is a key part of my toolkit. I have trained a generation of teams and managers to

• Respond thoughtfully—rather than react anxiously—to work frustrations
• Cross over the fences that separate us
• Build partnerships that help us see more and do more than we can alone


Through applying The Organization Workshop principles, I have witnessed sales teams excel and government agencies impress citizens. And, in a decade-long training program, I have supported high potential managers in launching their careers with these practices.

• Get more done using cross-functional meetings to front-end their projects
• Find common ground to build collaboration
• Use their strengths (not their limitations) as the foundation for change


As a parent and community volunteer I often draw from Barry’s teachings, especially when I’m tempted to judge or complain, instead of partner on a project. I have a passion for working with people who are willing to be a beginner and make a bold move, and these are the tools that create those possibilities. http://chooseonpurpose.com

Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA

Expert in leadership development, talent management and organizational development.

Glendale, Arizona, USA

It’s hard to describe the extensive impact that the OW still continues to have in both my work and personal life. In Through OW, I discovered my passion for leadership and organization development and I make a very “grumpy” bottom! For the past 23 years, I have tried not to soak up all responsibility or be torn. Instead, when bottom and customer space opens, I ask, “What else can I do?” to remain informed and engaged. As an executive coach for the Boeing Leadership Center in St. Louis, I learned that at times, even positive intentions and recognition to disenfranchised bottoms can have unintentional negative outcomes! It’s important to understand what motivates individuals. My passion is helping leaders to unlock their own potential to remove barriers that keep others from reaching their ultimate capabilities. The OW shows where to look!