Roger Schwarz

President and CEO

Roger Schwarz, PhD, is an organizational psychologist and president and CEO of Roger Schwarz & Associates (RSA).

For more than forty years, Roger has helped leadership teams and organizations achieve three results: strong performance, solid working relationships, and individual well-being. His clients include global corporations, federal government agencies, universities, medical centers, national nonprofit organizations, and other organizations that seek to make the world a better place. In addition, he has established a robust program and practice for building the capacity of internal and external consultants.

His work is grounded in the premise that creating fundamental, systemic and sustainable change—culture change—requires that individuals, teams, and the larger organization change not only their behavior, but their mindset that guides their behavior. In turn, this drives how leaders design their teams and the organization.

Roger developed RSA’s Mutual Learning approach to leadership and change. Practical, accessible, and powerful, the approach integrates evidence-based research and theory into practice. This integration enables leaders to develop the mindset and skills to create the teams and organizations they want, including effectively addressing the most challenging, often undiscussable, issues that undermine success.

His passion for helping teams and organizations that are simultaneously effective and enhance the quality of life at work developed as a graduate student of Professor Chris Argyris, a founder of the fields of organization development and organizational learning. Roger’s work integrates and builds on the work of Chris Argyris, Richard Hackman, Peter Senge, and Edgar Schein to help leaders, teams, and organizations achieve their team and organization visions.

Roger is the author of Smart Leaders, Smarter Teams: How You and Your Team Get Unstuck to Get Results and The Skilled Facilitator: A Comprehensive Resource for Consultants, Facilitators, Coaches and Trainers, which is considered a standard reference in the field. He is co-editor of The Skilled Facilitator Fieldbook: Tips, Tools, and Tested Methods for Consultants, Facilitators, Managers, Trainers, and Coaches. His writing also appears in other books, journals, and online in Harvard Business Review.

A former professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Roger earned his PhD in Organizational Psychology from the University of Michigan and a Master of Education degree from Harvard University. He lives in Chapel Hill, NC.

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