Affiliated Faculty, Organizational Dynamics Programs; Principal, CFAR (Center for Applied Research)
Barry Dornfeld is a strategic advisor to organizations in both the nonprofit and for-profit sectors and is an expert on culture, organizational change, and collaboration. He draws on his many years of consulting, teaching, and industry experience to help guide clients through complex leadership issues, strategic and cultural change, and governance challenges. He leads CFAR’s Higher Education practice and started CFAR’s CultureLab, a think tank on organizational culture.
Barry teaches extensively, leading workshops on cultural change, leading through influence, and organizational change. He speaks to a wide range of groups in many industries focusing on healthcare, life sciences, not-for-profits, and higher education, and has taught and spoken in many settings in the US and internationally.
Barry is co-author of The Moment You Can’t Ignore: When Big Trouble Leads to a Great Future (Public Affairs, 2014), and author of Producing Public Television, Producing Public Culture (Princeton, 1992) other articles and book chapters, and is a documentary filmmaker. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology and economics from Tufts University and a PhD in communication from the Annenberg School of the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a faculty member at New York University and the University of the Arts in Philadelphia.
