Barry JOHNSON, Ph.D.


USA

For the past 15 years, Dr. JOHNSON has been an independent consultant in the combined areas of management development and organisation development. He has been working on the Polarity Management Model and set of principles since 1975 and is the author of Polarity Management, Identifying and Managing Unsolvable Problems (HRD Press, 1996).
Dr. JOHNSON holds a Ph.D. in Organisation Development (International College), got educated in the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland in Organisation and System Development and specialized in Trust Development under guidance of Jack GIBB. As a presenter he has made presentation to a variety of conferences and universities in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Australia and Europe. As a trainer, he has designed and implemented training programs for private and public organisations on topics including Polarity Management, Gestalt and O.D., MBTI at a personal and systems level, Working with Resistance, Managing Conflict, Self Directed Work Teams and Trust Development.
His client list includes AMOCO, General Motors, Motorola, Shell Oil, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, American Practices Management, Southern New England Telephone, Provincial Government of Ontario, UCSD Medical Center, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Michigan and Syncrude of Canada.