LAI Principal Research Associate

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Dr. George Roth leads LAI's enterprise change research. Dr. Roth's research focuses on developing and testing change theories applicable to enterprise value streams. His current research examines and develops initiatives that align improvements across multiple organizations, priortizing in changes in products and services within a specific value stream over local organizational factors. This current focus builds upon his ongoing research in organizational leadership, learning, change and culture.

Dr. Roth is a past Chair of the Organization Development and Change Division of the Academy of Management and a founding member of the Society for Organizational Learning. He has authored numerous award-winning academic and professional journal articles on learning and change; including articles in 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 (Oxford University Press); and
• Oil Change:Perspectives on Corporate Transformation (Oxford University Press).

Previously George was the executive director of the Ford-MIT Alliance, an alliance emphasizing learning and knowledge creation activities in engineering research, education and environmental policy. He was also 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.

Prior to his academic career he worked for 10 years at Digital Equipment in the U.S. and Europe. George has a Ph.D. in organization studies, an M.B.A. in marketing and finance, and a B.S. in mechanical engineering.