Leadership Deep Dive - Instructor Bios

Ronald Fry, Ph.D.

A co-creator of Appreciative Inquiry, Dr. Fry has conducted research and consulted with industrial, service and public sector organizations in the areas of human resource development and organizational change for more than twenty-five years. His work with such organizations as Ford, General Electric, Northern Telecom, Mittal Steel, and the Greater Houston Mental Health Association has focused on projects related to employee involvement, participatory management systems, fundamental cultural change, team building and executive development, and strategic planning.

Selected works: Appreciative Inquiry: A Positive Approach to Building Cooperative Capacity (with Frank Barrett); Appreciative Team Building (with Diana Whitney, Amanda Trosten-Bloom and Jay Cherney).

The professors teaching this program are first class, both for their expertise and their ability to connect with executives.