About Your Sensitizer Results

We hope completing the Sensitizer provided you with insight into your patterns of system behavior.  System leadership requires flexibility and the ability to respond effectively to the unique opportunities of each situation we face.  Being high on one aspect of these dimensions and low on its opposing tendency may indicate areas where greater flexibility is needed.  Your Sensitizer summary scores point the compass in the direction of which areas you may need to work on to be a more effective leader.

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Barry Oshry is a distinguished educator and a pioneer in the field of human systems thinking.  Barry’s area of research, writing and teaching has been 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 for over 35 years, 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.

Barry received his Ph.D. from Boston University where he later taught and was Chairman of the Department of Organization Studies. His clients include Fortune 500 companies as well as health care organizations, educational institutions, and government agencies.

Barry is the author of the highly acclaimed Seeing Systems: Unlocking The Mysteries of Organizational Life as well as Leading Systems and In The Middle.  Barry is also a playwright whose recent stage productions include “What A Way To Make A Living,” “Hierarchy” and “Peace.”   Since 1975 he’s been President of Power+ Systems Training, Inc. in Boston, which he founded with his wife and partner, Karen Ellis Oshry.