Barry Dym is an organization development consultant, executive coach, psychotherapist, and entrepreneur. His clients range from small nonprofits, high tech start up companies, and both public and private school systems to large corporations, such as State Street Corporation, The Boston Globe, Honeywell, and Massachusetts Financial Services (MFS).
He was the co-founder of the Family Institute of Cambridge (1975) and the founder and Director of both the Boston Center for Family Health (1985) and WorkWise Research and Consulting (1997). For fourteen years, he served as a Lecturer at the Harvard Medical School.
He has written three previous books, Leadership Transitions, Couples, and Readiness and Change in Couple Therapy, co-founded a professional journal, Families, Systems, and Health, and newsletter, Collaborative Family Health Care, and has also written many articles, including “Utilizing States of Organizational Readiness” (with Harry Hutson), winner of the Larry Porter Prize as the best article on organizational development, 1998-99, “Resistance in Organizations: how to Recognize, Understand and Respond to It,” “Integrating Entrepreneurship with Professional Leadership,” and “Forays: The Power of Small Changes.”
