One of CFAR's founding partners, Larry has developed many of the proprietary tools the firm uses to help clients develop strategy, implement change and improve collaboration.  He is also a recognized expert on the psychodynamics of organizations, and has consulted to executive teams in a broad range of industries, helping them refine their group process so they can make better decisions.  Trained as an economist, Larry's consulting approach is grounded in the realities of the client's business model and in their interest in identifying avenues to profitable revenue.  He is a prolific writer, with four books and many articles to his credit, including a recent piece in Organizational Development Magazine, which describes a "backcasting" tool clients can employ for strategy development and execution.  He was co-chair of the 2007 annual meeting of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, and won the 2008 Eliot Jaques award from the Society of Consulting Psychology for his article, "The Fall of Howell Raines and the New York Times."

Skills/Knowledge/Abilities

• Strategy with Top Teams - Works with leaders and their teams to set direction
• Organizational Development - Builds capabilities that support strategic directions
• Economic Analysis - Applies economic concepts to analyzing markets and their evolution

Recent Projects

• For a research university, consulted to the executive vice president on the re-staging of its medical school.
• For a law firm, helped the partners keep the firm together by designing and facilitating a process for resolving conflicts over governance.

Professional Facts

Ph.D. in Economics (focus in Information Economics), MIT

Founding member and former president, International Society for Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations

Development work focused in the areas of organizational campaigns as a vehicle for organization change, the strategy formulation process and the links between thinking and feeling in the executive decision-making process

Selected Writing and Speaking

"The Fall of Howell Raines and The New York Times: A Study in the Moralization of Organizational Life," published in Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and Research and winner of the Elliott Jaques Award from The Society of Consulting Psychology, 2008

“Disrespectful Behavior Among Clinicians: It’s Not the Individual, It’s the Work Practices,” (with Betsy Riley-Wasserman) presentation at the University Health System Consortium, October 2007

“Backcasting: A Systematic Method for Creating a Picture of the Future and How to Get There,”   OD Practitioner: Journal of the Organization Development Network,  Fall 2007

"Stress in the Nursing Department: Learning's from an Executive Team Retreat."(with L. May) Firth-Cozens and Payne eds. Stress in Health Professionals: Psychological and Organizational Causes and Intervention. Chichester, U.K.: John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 1999, pp. 177 - 190.

"Manage Polarities Before They Manage You."
Research Technology Management, Sept. - Oct. 2001

"Passion and Group Life: Examining Moments of Creativity and Destructiveness."
January 2001.

"Changing Structure is Not Enough: The Moral Meaning of Organizational Design."
Beer and Nohria eds. Breaking the Code of Change. Boston, Mass: Harvard Business School Press, 2000, pp. 161 - 176.