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 George Roth
Contact information:
MIT Sloan School of Management
Lean Aerospace Initiative 41-205
77 Vassar Street
Cambridge, Ma 02139
tel. 617-253-8407
fax. 617-258-7845
email: groth@mit.edu


George Roth, Principal Research Associate at the Sloan School of Management, heads up the Enterprise Change Research Area at MIT’s Lean Aerospace Initiative. His current research examines and develops organizational transformations that align changes across multiple organizations, prioritizing improvements within enterprise value streams over local organizational factors. This focus builds upon his ongoing research in organizational leadership, learning, change and culture. Previously George had been Executive Director of the Ford-MIT Alliance – an alliance emphasizing learning and knowledge creation activities in engineering research, education and environmental policy, and Research Director for the MIT Center for Organizational Learning – a consortium of companies applying systems thinking and learning skills to improve corporations and their people.

Dr. Roth’s consulting activities center on working with leaders in organizations to improve individual skills and collective capabilities by implementing learning and change processes. His expertise is in linking leadership, strategy, organizational design, change and learning. He co-founded Reflection Learning Associates, Inc.; a consulting firm specializing in helping individuals and organizations learn and change from their experience. His clients have included Ford Motor Company, General Motors, Boeing, Shell Oil, British Petroleum, Valero Energy, British Telecom, Exxon/Mobil, Siemens, and Accenture Consulting.

George is the Chair of the Organization Development and Change Division of the Academy of Management. He is a founding member of the Society for Organizational Learning. He is the author of numerous award-winning academic and professional journal articles on learning and change; including articles in the Harvard Business
Review, Organizational Dynamics and AQP Journal describing new approaches to diffusing learning across organizations. His co-authored books include: To the Desert and Back: The Story of one of the Most Dramatic Business Transformations on Record (Jossey-Bass), The Dance of Change: The Challenges to Sustain Momentum in Learning Organizations (Doubleday/Currency), Car Launch: Managing the Human Side of Change
and Oil Change: Perspectives on Corporate Transformation (both with Oxford University Press).

Prior to his academic career he worked for ten years at Digital Equipment in the US and Europe. George has a Ph.D. in Organization Studies, an MBA in marketing and finance, and BS in Mechanical Engineering. His hobbies include basketball, running, bicycling and skiing, and trying to keep up with his wife and two energetic teenage daughters.